Hi all, De-lurking here. Finishing up my semester at Pratt, student project due on Cataloging Cultural Objects. If you can take a few minutes to answer as many of the questions as you can, maybe even add some comments, I’ll be very grateful. (Any responses you wish kept off the record will be honored.) Thanks, […]
Posts in the Archives + Special Collections category:
LOC Preservation – 21st Century-Style
Gamasutra reports that the Library of Congress is funding an initiative – Preserving Creative America – to preserve creative media, including movies, digital photography, and video games. The blog further states According to a statement announcing the program, many of the included projects will involve “developing standardized approaches to content formats and metadata (the information […]
Art and Second Life: Social and Experiental Opportunities
Check out Nina Simon’s post, Jumping Into Art in Second Life, at Museum 2.0. The following statement sums up her point: So much energy is put into recreating physical spaces and their real-world limitations rather than experimenting with ways that virtual worlds create opportunity to do things that are impossible in real museums. These opportunities […]
Academic Librarianship, Archives + Special Collections, Museum Librarianship, Professional Development
Summer seminars
Summer Seminars Available in Oxford, Prague and Ljubljana If you would like to learn first-hand about libraries and library services in a different culture and gain a global perspective on issues facing libraries around the world, you will want to consider enrolling in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and […]