Tom Simonite in the MIT Technology Review
traces the shrinking of the volunteer workforce and the efforts of the foundation to reverse the trend.
October 31, 2013
The Decline of Wikipedia
October 28, 2013
Record Breaker!
Last Thursday’s book sale set a new record! Thank you to all who attended and supported this event. The next sale will be in April 2014.
October 25, 2013
DPLA Bookshelf Launches
The Digital Public Library of America has a new way to browse over a million online books in its collection. DPLA Bookshelf lets the user scroll a visual representation of a bookshelf; the shelf is shown as a vertical stack so that the titles and authors are more easily readable on their spines. The width of the book represents the actual height of the physical book, and its thickness represents its page count. The spine is colored with one of ten depths of blue to “heat map” how relevant the work is to the reader’s search.
October 24, 2013
ARTstor adds Guggenheim Images
ARTstor and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation have released nearly 200 historical and contemporary photographs documenting the architecture of the Foundation’s three iconic buildings: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, and the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (Peggy Guggenheim Collection), designed by Lorenzo Boschetti. This is the third release of a projected 7,000 images of art, exhibition installation views, and architecture from the Foundation.
October 23, 2013
October 21, 2013
NAC as Brutalist Architecture
Were Brutalist Buildings on College Campuses Really Designed to Thwart Student Riots? From Slate‘s design blog.
October 16, 2013
Library of Congress Web Sites Go Live Again
In a rare piece of good news this week out of Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress announced it had restored access to its Web sites — from the Chronicle of Higher Education “QuickWire.”
October 14, 2013
October 8, 2013
What if Google killed Scholar?
Max Kemman’s blog post discusses why killing Scholar might make sense, and Google Scholar vs. Google Search.
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