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Category Archives: General Interest
Discarded Books, Recovered Nostalgia
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/discarded-books-recovered-nostalgia/?smid=nytimesphoto&_r=0
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Tracking Down Lewis Hine’s Forgotten Child Laborers
A compelling story: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/27/tracking-down-lewis-hines-forgotten-child-laborers/#1
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Guy Laramée’s beautiful landscapes carved from old books
Guy Laramée’s beautiful landscapes carved from old books:http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/11/guy-laramees-book-sculptures/
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100-year-old-negatives-discovered-in-antarctica
http://www.boredpanda.com/100-year-old-negatives-discovered-in-antarctica/
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Well done!
Collaboratories and bubbles of shush – how libraries are transforming | Helen Shenton | TEDxDublin
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Tools @ DigiPres Commons
FYI: The DigiPres Commons site is a hub for digital preservation information and tools. (Lot’s of image format validation tools and file metadata tools! #geek)
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Let there be light…in the basement!
Sunportal Uses Pipes to Deliver Daylighting Anywhere Within a Building Sunportal Uses Pipes to Deliver Daylighting Anywhere Within a Building
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Slideshow: Glass
Glass objects from Harvard’s General Artemus Ward House Museum. Made with Spectacle.
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Harvard Library Lifts Restrictions on Digital Reproductions of Works in the Public Domain
This is a big deal. The Library will share, without restriction, all of its online resources that are not otherwise encumbered by license or copyright! (paraphrase) This simple declaration will inform the development of Harvard Library’s digital library infrastructure: Systems must … Continue reading
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