Washington Post Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives Using open source tools and Slack, these volunteers have backed up everything from the country’s historical records and census data to children’s poems and basket weaving techniques. By Pranshu Verma 8/4/2022 A public library damaged by shelling in […]
“Supporting library neutrality by balancing books is in everyone’s interest. Deep public respect for the traditional library ideal will rightly cut against conservatives who offend against it. The sins of woke librarians do not absolve the excesses of the other side. Nor does purging leftist library books comport with traditional […]
COOPER HEWITT ANNOUNCES RECENT ACQUISITIONS TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION Posted on February 17, 2022 —NEW ACQUISITIONS BOLSTER DIVERSITY OF PERMANENT COLLECTION, RESPOND TO CURRENT ISSUES AND STRENGTHEN KEY AREAS— Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the addition of several important works to the permanent collection. The museum holds one […]
The Best Notes Atlas Obscura Readers Found in Used Books From painful spoilers to such trenchant criticism as “P.S. This book blows!” BY ERIC GRUNDHAUSER JULY 18, 2018 “What did she ever do to you?” and other great margin notes. ANNIE WATTS ONE OF THE GREAT TRUTHS in life is that used books […]
Biblioteca de Ruth Bader Ginsburg vendida por valor “surpreendente” A biblioteca pessoal da juíza do Supremo Tribunal dos Estados Unidos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, que morreu em 2020, foi vendida esta sexta-feira em leilão por 2,35 milhões de dólares (cerca de 2,1 milhões de euros), superando todas as expectativas. © Getty […]
GO Print Subscribe Share/Save Volunteer Vignette: It’s fun to figure out the puzzle! December 30, 2021 by Carlyn Osborn In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Maya, who has gone above and beyond! By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections more […]
PREDICTIONS FOR JOURNALISM 2022 Historical context will improve local journalism — Matt DeRienzo “If historical context about racial discrimination is on the checklist for every story journalists pursue, it will change how we write about labor, education, health care, transportation, crime, technology, and the environment.” Efforts to prevent schools from teaching […]
Collecting the Globe: The Library Abroad December 7, 2021 by Mark Hartsell Acquisitions librarian Abdus Salam (right) selects titles from a local bookshop in Peshawar, Pakistan. Collecting at the Library of Congress literally never stops. The massive collections of the world’s largest library are the product, in part, of a staff that […]
Librarians, Educators Warn of ‘Organized’ Book Banning Efforts By Andrew Albanese | Nov 18, 2021 Last week, a school board member in Flagler County, Fla., urged the local sheriff to open a criminal investigation over four copies on school library shelves of George M. Johnson’s queer YA memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue. And […]
Print Subscribe Share/Save Summer Beauties: The Golden Age of Travel Posters August 19, 2021 by Neely Tucker This Depression-era Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project poster urged Americans to travel. Artist: Alexander Dux. Prints and Photographs Division. Jan Grenci, a reference specialist in the Prints & Photographs Division, wrote a short piece about travel posters in the […]
Volume 33 Issue 2 July 2021 Articles Thomas Penny and the preservation of Conrad Gessner’s botanical legacy Holger Funk A botanical collector abroad: contextualizing Thomas Penny’s travels in Switzerland and France, 1565–1568 Marie Addyman The social life of Bartolomeo della Nave’s art collection in Seicento Venice Susan Nalezyty A Bolognese […]
ACTUALITÉS DE LA CONTEMPORAINE Si vous ne lisez pas ce mail correctement, cliquez ici 16 juillet 2021 Toute dernière ligne droite pour La contemporaine ! La contemporaine a fermé ses portes au public le 19 avril dernier pour permettre le déménagement de ses collections vers le nouveau bâtiment à l’entrée du […]
“Para compreender a pintura A Leitura. Grupo do Consultório do Professor Francisco Pulido Valente, em destaque na exposição permanente do Palácio Pimenta, e o contexto da época, o Museu de Lisboa, em parceria com a Fundação Francisco Pulido Valente, convidou seis especialistas em diversas áreas da história de Lisboa […]
Universo Abierto Blog de la biblioteca de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca Las bibliotecas de antes y de ahora: Las ideas que compartimos Libraries Then and Now: The Ideas We Share Alexia MacClain Unbound April 21, 2021 Texto completo ¿Qué productos o materiales te vienen a la mente […]
Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva COLÓQUIO INTERNACIONAL LEGADOS DE ARTISTA Preservação, Estudo, Disseminação, Institucionalização Lisboa, 20-21 Maio 2021 [Online] Apresentação Cuidar de legados artísticos, em todas as vertentes que essa ação implica, é uma atividade de grande responsabilidade, de que podem fazer parte vários intervenientes. Os próprios artistas, […]
“Joaquim Horta adapta ao teatro o livro de Margarida Tengarrinha Memórias de Uma Falsificadora – A Luta na Clandestinidade pela Liberdade em Portugal, que conta como a autora usou a sua habilidade de artista plástica e estudante de Belas Artes ao serviço da falsificação de documentos, garantindo o trabalho dos […]
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