22 5 / 2013
My University recently closed the basement to the Library. I had no idea of the danger we were in.
Made funnier by the fact that Durham University is one of the main Hogwarts shooting locations. http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/films/locations/durham.htm
(via archivr)
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21 5 / 2013
Remember caricaturist Alfred Frueh from this other letter to his fiancee? Well, only a few weeks before that one he sent her this 3-D masterpiece, a letter that opens up to reveal a miniature art gallery.
Alfred Joseph Frueh to Giuliette Fanciulli, 1913 Jan. 10. Alfred J. Frueh papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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14 5 / 2013
Magpie Librarian also responded to this.
We know we do good work. Our patrons know we do good work. Most of America agrees that libraries are important to a community. So does it matter what one person who doesn’t even go to a library thinks? I mean, yes, because, thanks to his rich white man status, he managed to get something incredibly ignorant published on the Huffington Post - but maybe everyone else just thinks he sounds like a grumpy out of touch old man too.
I have a lot of feelings about this but I don’t have time to write about it because 1. I have to go help people in a library and 2. everyone else has said it better. Good job, librarians.
(via sarberry)
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14 5 / 2013
History Declassified: New Archive Reveals Once-Secret Documents from World Governments
In the early 90s, the so-called “Iron Archives of Russian political documents from the Cold War era opened up to historians, shedding light on the earliest days of Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin’s diplomatic alliance. But not all of the Russian documents were declassified at that time.
(Source: transformativetidbits)
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13 5 / 2013
Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do
Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do. A blog post at “The Signal: Digital Preservation” on 2013-05-09.“ 40. Organize an event with a local club to increase awareness of digital preservation initiatives. Remember to serve cake, people will come if there is cake. ”
CAKE
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06 5 / 2013
Hemingway reads.
More than two thousand papers and other materials from Ernest Hemingway’s Havana estate, Finca Vigia, are being transferred to the Library of Congress. These will include passports showing Hemingway’s travels and letters commenting on such works as “The Old Man and the Sea.”
For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.
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01 5 / 2013
Looks like #ARLIS2013 was a hit this year! Thanks to our ARLIS2013 photographers for submitting pictures and details below!
- Alexandra Small, Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (IL)
- Irene Zapata, Student, UCLA (CA)
- Cathy Billings, Art Librarian, Brand Library (CA)
- Teresa Soleau, Digital Library Specialist at the Getty Research Institute (CA)
- Jean Hines, Librarian at Pratt Manhattan Center Library and Kai Smith, MSLIS student at Pratt Institute (NYC)
- Amanda Milbourn, Assistant Librarian, Disney Consumer Products (CA)
- Suz Massen, Chief of Public Services, The Frick Collection (NYC)
- Anne Simmons, Vertical Files Librarian, National Gallery of Art (DC)
- Barret Havens, Outreach Architecture Librarian, Woodbury University (CA)
- Marcie Farwell, MLIS Student at Queens College (CUNY, NYC). Marcie made both her sweater and her skirt!
Props to Amanda Milbourn, a former classmate of mine from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies!
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01 5 / 2013
May Day is almost upon us, and oh what fun we will have!
May 1st is an important day in history, it’s the official birthday of the dwarf planet Pluto, it is the anniversary of the launch of the Lusitania, and it is International Workers’ Day. In addition to these historic events, May 1st is important to archives and cultural repositories as a day of disaster planning, and organization known as May Day. May Day is a time when archivists and other cultural heritage professionals take personal and professional responsibility for doing something simple – something that can be accomplished in a day but that can have a significant impact on an individual’s or a repository’s ability to respond. We here at UACU take this very seriously, and so we will have a slew of activities and events. Please stay tuned for further developments.
We have several events, planned, take a look at some of them, by clicking here.
Take a look at some May Day Resources, by clicking here.
Take a look at some May Day Quick Tips, by clicking here. You will be thankful you did.
May 1st is a day to save our archives, let’s get to work!
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26 4 / 2013
The Official White House Tumblr: The White House, Tumbling Things
We see some great things here at the White House every day, and sharing that stuff with you is one of the best parts of our jobs. That’s why we’re launching a Tumblr. We’ll post things like the best quotes from President Obama, or video of young scientists visiting the White House for the science…
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