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Still More Digital Library Resources - (USA)
I continue to shop around, kicking the tires on content management systems for Web sites and software for digital collections libraries. I'm planning to download Drupal (digital content management for Web sites) and experiment with it. As for Digital Collection management, I'm leaning strongly toward Archon, and have downloaded and started to play with it as a tool in managing the historical society's cataloging project. However, all this shopping is a recursive project. As I've tried to underst
http://pocahontascofare.blogspot.com/2008/09/still-more-digital-library-resources.html
New Zealand photography: Mark Adams - (USA)
Photoforum, which emerged out of the photographic new wave in New Zealand, is an Auckland-based: non-profit society dedicated to the promotion of photography as a means of communication and expression.[It's] website showcases New Zealand photographic work and work of overseas photographers with some connection to New Zealand or PhotoForum. There is a lot on material online to explore. It has online exhibitions, the most recent of which is Photoforum 33. More significantly there is a
http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2009/04/new-zealand-pho-1.html
A Day in the Newseum - (USA)
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of taking a trip to the Newseum. Located near the National Archives on Pennsylvania Avenue, the facility is a huge, modern building dedicated to memorializing and exploring the free (and the not-so-free) press. I've lived in Washington for over a year, and visited many of its museums, but the Newseum is by far my favorite. I'll go so far as to endorse it: If you're in Washington and have time for only one museum, visit the Newseum. But make sure to have plen
http://tracktwentynine.blogspot.com/2008/11/day-in-newseum.html
12th October 2008 - Who's made a mark this week? - (USA)
Vermeer in China by David Paskett VPRWS53cms x 43cm, watercolourCopyright David Paskett. Courtesy of the Bankside Gallery/RWS.After all the controversy there's been about watercolour paintings recently, I'm really looking forward to getting out to see some really good watercolour paintings at the Autumn Exhibition of the Royal Watercolour Society - hopefully this afternoon! The above painting by leading watercolourist David Paskett, the Vice President of the RWS, is on the Private View invitat
http://makingamark.blogspot.com/2008/10/12th-october-2008-whos-made-mark-this.html
MayDay - “Do One Thing for Emergency Preparedness”…04.16.09 - (USA)
Preservation is one of my “ pet peeves ” because its importance is obvious to librarians but many of our organizations take a blind eye to it as they often do to other efforts to insure perpetuity. It’s considered many times to just be an expense that can be easily “overlooked” as not being a budgetary expedient. “ Each year, archives, libraries, museums, and historic preservation organizations set aside May 1 to participate in MayDay, an initiative to protect cultural heritage from disaster
http://lonewolflibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/mayday-do-one-thing-for-emergency-preparedness041609/
Walt Disney World News Roundup - (USA)
Disney has released a few press releases over the past couple of days pertaining to different things going on around the Walt Disney World Resort right now. First up, 1,000 immigrants that will be sworn in as American citizens on July 3rd not only get that honor, but they will also get to preview the updated Hall of Presidents attraction: In a stirring celebration of citizenship, more than 1,000 immigrants will gather on Main Street, U.S.A. July 3 to be “sworn in” as American citizens. And
http://www.wdwnewstoday.com/archives/3861
The Photographers’ Gallery on the Move - (USA)
Posted by jonathanfryer on Friday, 14th November, 2008 For 37 years, The Photgraphers’ Gallery has been based on a split site on Great Newport Street on the edge of Soho (technically, Covent Garden), pulling in half a million visitors per annum — a figure many larger museums and art institutions cannot match. This morning I joined a small group of journalists from the Foreign Press Association for a sort of farewell tour of the premises, where two exhibitions are bringing down the curtain on
http://jonathanfryer.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/the-photographers-gallery-on-the-move/
Grover’s Back! - (USA)
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 22nd, 2009 I fully accept the Patterson film. [Bigfoot's loping gait is] consistent with a 500-pound biped. I’ve attempted to imitate it, and I really can’t do it worth a damn. - Grover Krantz, 1999Don’t be surprised if you hear people talking about Grover Krantz again.The anthropologist who wrote or edited four books, The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1977, with anthropologist Roderick Sprague), The Scientist Looks at t
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/grovers-back/
Affordable Paris: Museums for free - (USA)
Paris museums house some of the best collections in the world, but they aren't cheap dates. Entry to the Musée d'Orsay costs 8€ ($11.50), the great Louvre is 9€ ($12), and the Centre Pompidou is 12€ ($16). These admission fees can add up if you're planning to visit more than one museum, and especially if you're paying for a whole family. [+] Enlarge image Old Paris on display at the Musée Carnavalet (Courtesy fredpanassac/Flickr ) But there's good news: About 22 museums offer f
http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2009/04/affordable_paris_museums_for_f.html
Dr. J on leveling the players on the field - (USA)
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50 miles a week and flies a Cherokee Arrow 200. It’s all too common to read about or hear from someone about how they are trying to lose weight. Ready to play the game? I’m sure you have all heard the expression, “leveling the playing field.” If I could magically do something for this planet, be
http://calorielab.com/news/2009/06/23/level-playing-field-diet-fitness/
Public information belongs to the people: Give it out! - (USA)
A GNA feature by Francis Ameyibor The 1992 Constitution guarantees the Right to Information as a fundamental human right of all persons in Ghana. But it is a sad commentary that almost 16 years into the Fourth Republic, the various governments and parliaments have failed to ensure the passage of the Right to Information Law. It is more frustrating for media practitioners in their quest to secure information for the benefit of the public in fulfilment of their Constitutional man
http://www.theghanaianjournal.com/2009/04/09/public-information-belongs-to-the-people-give-it-out/
Twitter Updates - (USA)
Apollo still photos were much better than broadcast images: how come?In theory, it can happen to anyone recording moving images on tape or digital media: absent-mindedly or carelessly re-use the recording media, and thus lose the original content. If no copy exists, such an accident means an irrevocable loss.But if the images were the most expensively shot in the whole of human history — literally costing billions of dollars and involving the genius and labour of half a million people over sever
http://movingimages.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/live-from-the-moon-and-then-lost-on-earth-story-of-apollo-broadcasts/
CSCA*: Week 2—Government & History Week - (USA)
* Camp Stimey Coming Attractions! Please keep in mind that all Camp Stimey Coming Attractions are subject to the whims of Stimey. You just never know when I'm going to decide to trash Constitution Day and decide to make it Nail Cutting Day instead. It's been known to happen. Alex just informed me that my small children won't enjoy the National Archives, so I guess I don't get to see the Constitution this week. Stupid young kids. Jack has a playdate (yay!) on Monday, so we're going to drop h
http://stimeyland.blogspot.com/2009/06/csca-week-2governent-history-week.html
Conference Alert: Digital Directions (San Diego, CA/US, 27-29 May 2009) - (USA)
The Northeast Document Conservation Center Presents: DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections MAY 27-29, 2009 Westin San Diego San Diego, California RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW - REGISTER ONLINE AT: http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09.php Registration Deadline: MAY 1, 2009 ***************************************** A FACULTY OF NATIONAL EXPERTS will lead you through the steps in creating and managing successful digital projects. AT THE DIGITAL DIRE
http://attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com/2009/04/conference-alert-digital-directions-san.html
dr the rev kamal karna roy’s masterpiee based on demand & trend of love & conjugal love, familial re - (USA)
Jul.31, 2009 in Uncategorized Your Comments On…The Last Doughboy CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during America’s involvement in the First World War and that 4,734,990 are gone. He is feeling fine, thank you for asking. – By George F. WillCommentsprdas01 wrote: u s campaign practices are corrupt and frauidulent especially when candidacy from weaker candi
http://sreelancer.com/?p=20382
Dallas hospital room where JFK died now stored in Kansas | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, T - (USA)
The Dallas Morning News Latest News page contains stories about the Dallas-Fort Worth area and stories of broad interest to Texans.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/020708dnmettraumaroom.37afff4.html
Wikipedia Steals from UK National Portrait Gallery - (USA)
Here’s a compelling case of self-interest presented as public interest reported by the BBC . The National Portrait Gallery in the UK makes £339,000 a year from the rights to high resolution images from their collection being reproduced in other media. The gallery claims it has invested £1m in the digitizing effort. A volunteer for Wikipedia used software to extract high-resolution images from the NPG’s site that are not meant to be downloadable. When confronted, Wikipedia clothes itself in th
http://www.artmarketmonitor.com/2009/07/22/wikipedia-steals-from-uk-national-portrait-gallery/?utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss
Lot’s and lot’s more background info on the swine flu pandemic and it’s possible connections with th - (USA)
From the website for legitimate government this article in it’s entirety. Find more recent posts below. Flu Kills The Torture Memos By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 26 April 2009 In a ‘Holy convenience, Batman!’ moment, a ‘ unique ‘ flu virus (one likely concocted in US Army labs ) overtakes media coverage of revelations that the highest levels of the US government instructed the CIA (and private contractors ) to torture te
http://aotearoaawiderperspective.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/lots-and-lots-more-background-info-on-the-swine-flu-pandemic-and-its-possible-connections-with-the-upper-echelon-of-the-ruling-elite/
Michael Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy/Michael Benton: Thinking About 21st Century Multiliteracie - (USA)
(Courtesy of Time Tube for mapping it in in a keyword request and finding it on Stephen's Lighthouse. Of course as the logo tells us it originated from a You Tube posting and it is a lecture from the University of Manitoba. Thanks to Kevin Kelly for mentioning Time Tube, a great time waster and useful tool for learning, in his essay in The New York Times Magazine: Becoming Screen Literate and this essay was referred to me by the ultimate film news site Green Cine Daily [which I surf daily] and
http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2008/11/michael-wesch-portal-to-media-literacy.html
~Hollywood~ CLICK HERE - (USA)
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http://www.hidef.com/showthread.php?t=2671&goto=newpost
Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26 - (USA)
Have you gone to 30 Day Challenge? Check this out, its full of surprises. http://www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com/challenge/50674 # Have you gone to 30 Day Challenge? Check this out, its full of surprises. http://www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com/challenge/50674 . # Have you gone to 30 Day Challenge? Check this out, its full of surprises. http://www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com/challenge/50674 # Have you gone to 30 Day Challenge? Check this out, its full of surprises. http://www.ThirtyDayChalleng
http://www.affiliatecrunch.com/weekly-updates-for-2009-04-26.html
Tough time for creative types - (USA)
In the hustle and bustle of Friday night’s deliberation of the $700 billion bail-out plan in the United States Senate, another bill passed through without much knowledge of the Senators themselves. The S. 2913 Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Bill looks to “limit the remedies in a civil action brought for infringement of copyright in an orphan work” as stated on the Congress activities tracking Web site govtrack.com. The bill passed via a method called “hotlining.” Hotlining is a method of voting on
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/pictures/uncategorized/2008/09/tough-time-for-creative-types/
The Lady of the Lionesses and a Pharaonic Wimp - (USA)
Say to the king, my lord, my god, my Sun: Message of the Lady of the Lionesses [ Belit-nesheti ], your handmaid. May the king, my lord, know that war has been waged in the land, and gone is the land of the king, my lord, by desertion to the Apiru. Thus the desperate queen of a small city in Palestine writes to Pharaoh Akhenaten, who was the supreme ruler of the region at the time.* For, around 1350 BCE, there was unrest in Canaan. Canaanite vassal kings conveyed their fears via let
http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2009/04/lady-of-lionesses-and-pharaonic-wimp.html
Why people steal from libraries-FT - (USA)
[ CJ Hinke of FACT comments : I collect rare books. I often could remove the illustrations from these books and sell them for far more than the value of the book itself. I have never done that nor even been tempted. The historical value has always been more precious to me. I have also refrained from buying disbound plates for the same reason. For many years, I have been buying and repatriating The Devil’s Discus to Thailand. In fact, I was advised to steal Harry Nicolaides’ Verisimiltude fro
http://facthai.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/why-people-steal-from-libraries-ft/
The Long-Awaited Sex Positive Film Series FAQ! - (USA)
Here it is at last …. SEX+++: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Wherein I will answer all the questions I have received about my sex-positive film series and, most importantly, tell you how to start your own ! If you’ve got a question that isn’t answered here, then feel free to email me — [ clarisse.thorn at gmail dot com ] — but I’m in Africa and my email access is very limited, so it will take me a while to respond. 1) How did you start Sex+++? Read this ! The short version
http://clarissethorn.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/the-long-awaited-sex-positive-film-series-faq/
Weekend With Shades - Saturday - July 18 - (USA)
S AVING F ACE B Y R EBECCA F ENNING A Monthly - Weekend With Shades - Column We have all read, no doubt, those news stories about formerly looted (or otherwise questionably acquired) artworks being discovered in museums, and the litigation that ensues as former owners sue for their return. The case of the Bloch-Bauer Klimts or the ongoing dispute over Roman antiquities between the J. Paul Getty Museum and Italy are two such cases, and both
http://www.shadesofthedeparted.com/2009/07/weekend-with-shades-saturday-july-18.html
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