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Wired June 2000 Jessie Scanlon |
The Way Things Worked "The industrial environment needs to be recognized," says DeLony, "because it's the record of our technological achievements." The government's collection of technological and industrial artifacts are on display now at the National Building Museum in Washington... |
D-Lib November 2005 Ed Galloway |
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections is part of the Historic Pittsburgh web site hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library (DRL). |
Searcher September 2004 Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
D-Lib September 2006 Cathy Sarli |
D-Lib Featured Collection September 2006: Deafness in Disguise: 19th and 20th Century Concealed Hearing Devices The Central Institute for the Deaf has a collection that contains over 400 hearing devices dating from 1796 and represents one of the largest collections in the world. |
IDB America September 2007 Alexandra Russell-Bitting |
Outstanding Works by Caribbean Artists The Art Museum of the Americas of the OAS houses the most comprehensive twentieth-century art collection from Latin America and the Caribbean on public display in Washington, D.C. |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2004 David Mattison |
Looking for Good Art Part 3: Glorious National Collections With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Here links to directories and guides. |
Searcher May 2002 David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here... |
Information Today January 22, 2015 |
ProQuest Adds to Its British Periodicals Database ProQuest is working on a new set of digital primary sources from the first half of the 20th century for British Periodicals Collection III, which will be complete in April 2015. |
D-Lib September 2000 Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs. |
Lucire March 8, 2013 |
Play time The latest collection from Anna Popovich, now out in stores, takes its inspiration from superheroes. Elina Lukas spoke with her about her thinking behind her spring styles |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Algee et al. |
Viewshare and the Kress Collection: Creating, Sharing, and Rapidly Prototyping Visual Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collection Data Viewshare is a free, open-source visualization platform developed by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress and its partners. |
Information Today November 3, 2015 |
Adam Matthew Offers Free Sources on Historic Black Community Free access to The Weeksville Exhibition, part of the recently released African American Communities collection, is being offered for the month of November 2015. |
Smithsonian February 2007 Lawrence M. Small |
Out of Africa This month a special collection -- representing most of Africa's major artistic traditions -- goes spectacularly on view at Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. |
Lucire August 18, 2011 |
Alexander McQueen: the legend Lola Saab visited the year's most talked-about fashion exhibition: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, curated by Andrew Bolton and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
CIO July 1, 2001 Elizabeth Douglas |
When Marketing Imitates Art Corporate art collections are more about the message than the medium... |
D-Lib June 2003 Feldman & Manring |
PapaInk: The Children's Art Archive PapaInk is the archival home of children's art. The nonprofit organization's archival site documents and exhibits children's art collections from its own physical holdings and presents works donated or shared by organizations and individuals worldwide. |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
Summon Service Slated to Index SciELO Ebook Titles Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with Scientific Electronic Library Online to index its ebook collection in the Summon discovery service. |
Information Today January 6, 2015 |
The U.K. and Ireland Get Their Own Academic Complete ebrary (a ProQuest business) rolled out a new edition of its Academic Complete subscription database that is designed for researchers in the U.K. and Ireland. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Peter Kosewski |
Digital Technology Opens Harvard's Library Collections to the World Visitors to the Harvard Libraries web site can find and use thousands of individual digital materials from the Harvard collections. |
Information Today September 20, 2012 |
Elsevier Launches Ebook Legacy Collection on ScienceDirect With the addition of the Legacy Collection to ScienceDirect, highly relevant, scientific books from the mid-20 th century to the present will be accessible online as early as December 2012. |
D-Lib April 2007 Melissa McLimans |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2007: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center has added over a thousand audio files, nearly a thousand books, and dozens of videos over the past year, totaling over 320,000 new digital objects. |
D-Lib September 2000 Andy Powell, Michael Heaney & Lorcan Dempsey |
RSLP Collection Description A description of an effort to develop a way to describe collections in a consistent and machine readable way that is applicable to physical and digital collections of all kinds, including library, art and museum materials. |
Information Today May 14, 2015 |
ProQuest Digitizes Harper's Bazaar The collection, which will be available later in 2015, is designed to improve research in subjects such as fashion, design, women's studies, and marketing. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We feature an extensive consideration of contextual metadata for cultural objects, visual interfaces for cultural heritage collections, the infrastructure needed to build upon and leverage open access and more. |
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson |
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 The Library of Congress' By the People, For the People website offers much more than a collection of poster images. It sets the collection within a historical context, describing the purposes, processes, outcomes and legacy of the Federal Arts Project. |
D-Lib October 2006 Judith M. Panitch |
Digital Collections at the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is aggressively expanding its digital library program. |
Information Today June 30, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing announced that it has partnered with the American Theological Library Association to create digital archive collections of historical monographs and serials for purchase by libraries and other institutions. |
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
Registered Rep. June 2, 2015 Carol Kroch |
Turning a Lifetime of Collecting into a Legacy There are essentially two main options for transferring a valued collection -- either passing it along to family or donating it to charity -- each with its own estate planning implications. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Brian Lavoie |
Beyond 1923 Characteristics of potentially in-copyright print books in library collections. |
D-Lib March 2005 Marilyn Lutz |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2005: The Maine Music Box The Maine Music Box is an interactive, multimedia digital music library. Users may view images of sheet music, scores and cover art, play back audio renditions, and manipulate the arrangement of selected pieces by changing the key and instrumentation. |
Lucire March 20, 2011 Lola Saab |
Vivienne Westwood: A Funky Fashion Statement Ever the show-woman Vivienne Westwood on the catwalk after another successful London Fashion Week collection in February. |
Information Today April 16, 2012 |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces The African American Historical Serials Collection Developed in conjunction with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), this digital collection includes African-American periodicals, annuals and reports published from 1829-1922, including materials from African-American religious organizations and social service agencies. |
D-Lib January 2001 |
In Brief Realizing the Vision of Networked Access to Library Resources... Open Working Group on Agents in Digital Libraries... Museums, Libraries and the 21st Century Learner... Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships... etc. |
D-Lib April 2000 David Rumsey & Julie Sweetkind |
The David Rumsey Collection At the beginning of March, one of the largest private map collections in the United States, the David Rumsey Collection, went online... |
Information Today August 24, 2009 |
ProQuest Adds New Content to Periodicals Archive Online ProQuest, LLC announced that Periodicals Archive Online offers three more ways to build a library's research archive with the addition of The Spectator to Collection 7, the launch of Collection 8, and the development of 5 additional years of coverage for journals in Collections 1-5. |
Information Today June 26, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA to Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing has partnered with American Theological Library Association to provide new collections of historical monographs and serials in digital format |
Information Today February 3, 2015 |
Adam Matthew Will Digitize Shakespearean Prompt Books The collection is set to be published electronically in fall 2016. |
AskMen.com January 16, 2003 Peter Fueller |
Top 10: Museums Of The World There are thousands of museums around the world, many of which are worth visiting. However, you probably don't want to spend your entire vacation looking through endless collections of paintings and sculptures, created by artists you've never even heard of. You want the famous stuff, right? |
Information Today March 16, 2009 |
Flickr Collection Debuts on GettyImages.com Getty Images and Flickr, a Yahoo!, Inc. announced the launch of the Flickr Collection, a creative imagery collection now available exclusively on gettyimages.com for commercial licensing. |
Information Today April 3, 2014 |
Gale Adds New Digital Collections Gale, part of Cengage Learning, launched the following Gale Digital Collection archives for academic and special libraries, now available on the Gale Artemis research platform. |
Real Travel Adventures January 2008 Bonnie Neely |
Art in Colorado Springs The inspiring beauty of the Rocky Mountains provides the perfect setting for their annual Art on the Streets project. |
Lucire October 27, 2011 |
From Cleopatra to Safaris at London Fashion Week Katherine Thomson looks at the spring-summer 2012 collections from Fashion East, Holly Fulton, Marios Schwab and Unique |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology. |
Lucire June 27, 2011 |
Sydney's multiple inspirations Josephine Leong and Ashleigh Berry pick their favourites from Rosemount Australian Fashion Week's spring-summer 2011-12 collections, where Kate Sylvester and Stolen Girlfriends' Club flew the Kiwi flag high. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Michael Szajewski |
Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Visibility of Digitized Archival Assets This case study examines the use of Wikipedia by the Ball State University Libraries as an opportunity to raise the visibility of digitized historic sheet music assets made available in the university's Digital Media Repository. |
D-Lib June 2005 Michalak, Madsen & Hurst |
The Open Collections Program Harvard resources that are digitized using the program are organized by topic, enabling interested people worldwide to easily access relevant information. |
D-Lib April 2006 De Vorsey et al. |
The Development of a Local Thesaurus to Improve Access to the Anthropological Collections of the American Museum of Natural History The creation of data standards for use with anthropology collections has been an elusive goal. Artifacts are unique; however, this has hindered the establishment of data standards and controlled vocabularies and, in turn, the efforts of collections researchers. |
Lucire February 26, 2003 Stevie Wilson |
Jennifer Nicholson (1) A profile of Jennifer Nicholson, the owner of Los Angeles' Mme Pearl Boutique and a fashion designer in her own right. |
D-Lib June 2008 Susan Schreibman |
D-Lib Featured Collection May/June 2008: University of Maryland Libraries Digital Collections In November 2007 University of Maryland Libraries announced its digital collections portal. |