Starchivists
blogger to curate show in FirstLife
Wowzers! Blogger and photographer Laurel Ptak, who runs the twee-ly undercased photography blog, i heart photograph, will be curating a real-life art show at the tony-ly uppercased Higher Pictures Gallery on Madison Ave and 66th St.…
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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from the accüsed to zoetrope
In Public Collectors, a rad new project by Chicago-based artist Marc Fischer, we now have a space for cataloging everything else:
Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries,
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cop some pics, copyright cops
Sorting through the gigantic pile of pre-blog material on the SD desk, we just came across this bit of online archival-related activism. It seems that an organization known as public.resource.org, inc, which was founded by ‘nets granddaddy
nixonian nixon library handed over to federal starchivists
In what must be considered a loss for fair and balanced reporting everywhere, the no-longer private Nixon library is now in the gloved hands of do-gooder federal archivists, who will set the record straight on the 18 1/2 minute…
update: the gray lady discovers the desk set
The New York Times, like white people, is always discovering things. First it was Philadelphia: Sixth Borough. Then it was East Williamsburg: Not Just Industrial Bushwick Anymore. Then came Fixies: Zen and the Art of 1:1 Gear Ratio Maintenance. And…
an up-and-coming occupation
Williamsburg is known for cool bistros and trendy hangouts, but few realize that the neighborhood and its environs are a magnet
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starchivists
Suggested Donation was shocked today when a google search provided zero results for the term “starchivist.”
We’re here to change all that.
starchivist (n.) – The Frank Gehry of the information and library sciences field. An iconoclastic and eccentric archivist…
