{"id":1678,"date":"2013-11-19T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2013-11-19T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:28:21","slug":"on-seeds-and-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2013\/11\/19\/on-seeds-and-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"On Seeds and Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/11\/seedLibrary_20130617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1670 aligncenter\" alt=\"seedLibrary_20130617\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/11\/seedLibrary_20130617-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/11\/seedLibrary_20130617-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/11\/seedLibrary_20130617-210x157.jpg 210w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/11\/seedLibrary_20130617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Howdy, folks! This is the first of a series of posts on the Hampshire College Seed Lending Library. Our first post covers how this whole thing began:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of Spring semester, 2013, a student pitched an idea to the library as part of her Div III work: a library of local, sustainable, non-GMO seeds, available for check-out. I currently have a large stock of the seeds, donated from a handful of generous companies, binders organized by seed type, and a little documentation. There&#8217;s still a long way to go &#8211; we hope to launch the seed library in the Fall, so I want to figure out a subset of seeds &#8211; maybe one to two dozen &#8211; specifically selected for the launch. We still need to catalog the seeds and figure out a plan for access to the seeds and circulation. I&#8217;d like to find a way to specify how difficult each seed is to grow and to harvest. I need practical things like seed packets for return seeds and labels, as well as a workflow. Ideally I want a website to help students better understand how to care for and return their seeds.<\/p>\n<p>We do have a home for them &#8211; we have an old card catalog on the first floor &#8211; perfect (I think) to adjust for seed packets!<\/p>\n<p>There is still a long way to go. This project is certainly in the realm of, &#8220;Not what I thought I would be doing as a librarian,&#8221; but it&#8217;s such an excellent experiment &#8211; perfect for our experimenting library!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was originally posted June 17, 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/tpatwood.com\/archives\/446\">See the original post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy, folks! This is the first of a series of posts on the Hampshire College Seed Lending Library. Our first post covers how this whole thing began: At the end of Spring semester, 2013, a student pitched an idea to the library as part of her Div III work: a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}