Libraries
shushing: signs and signifiers
Shushing: Signs and Signifiers is the third in a still-unnamed Suggested Donation feature of public usage of Museums and Libraries.
All images found on flickr.com
lolcuriosities
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University gets its institutional wordpress on with a new blog, Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities. According to their “about” page:
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities features new acquisitions, unique documents,
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screaming: the new shushing
Those hip shushers we’re so fond of writing about (and drinking with) are at it again, this time in the southwest’s cradle of hipsterdom, UT Austin. Seems fine art librarian Laura Schwartz organized a student introduction to the library involving…
stumbleupon library
After twenty years of collecting the 60,000+ ephemeral films the make up the Prelinger Archives (acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002), Rick and Megan Prelinger founded the Prelinger Library in 2004.
The Prelinger Library is an
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katrina katrina
Well, it’s been two years since the preventable disaster that was Hurricane Katrina. Here’s an image tailored for Suggested Donation’s audience that is suggestive of the damage:
A new website, happybirthdaykatrina.com, was designed…
a more stubborn brand of shushers; sterile animal breeds literacy
Ripping off our cynical gore-tex for a moment, we report on the bibliomulas of Venezuela, where mules have been employed to bring books (and knowledge!) to remote villages at the footsteps of the Andes.
Say what you want…
getty images licenses 100 workers for unemployment stints
Not exactly Suggested Donation’s turf, but it’s still interesting what’s happening over in the dollar-signs-for-eyeballs, market-driven world of privatized, for-profit, collections. These guys are getting paid AND getting fired.
pub-priv pub crawl
Of possible interest to SD grad student-types and other assorted head-nodders is the upcoming conference, “Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public”, the 2007 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, to be held at…
