Carnival of the Commons: MUSE awards and more
Posted by zyrcster in Carnival of The CommonsCommons institutions won awards at the Media and Technology 20th Annual MUSE Awards, held on April 30 at the Loews Philadelphia!
Podcasts
Gold: George Eastman House for General Collection Podcasts.
Video
Silver: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) for Presidents in Waiting.
Interactive Kiosks
Bronze: Library of Congress for New Visitor Experience.
Multimedia Installations
Hon. Mention: National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) for Digital Wayfinding.
Community
Hon. Mention: Royal Observatory, Greenwich (National Maritime Museum), for Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
Also Heard around the Commons:
- How We ‘May’ Protect Our Cultural Treasures: from the Library of Congress.
- The Powerhouse Museum celebrates its Commons collection by awarding copies of ‘Then and now: stories from the Commons’ to their blog commenters!
- They also announce their acquisition of the Bruno Benini archive.
- The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), a database administered by the Law Library of Congress, wins an Excellence in Government award.
- TIMBER! The Oregon State University Archives presents historic mill pictures in the Harold Frodsham Photographic Collection.
- The Smithsonian’s Chandra blog resolves a galactic mystery and interviews Eli Bressert, the guy responsible for making the Chandra images. Wow. That’s a cool job.
- SQUEE! Cute overload with baby leopards at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.
- Podcasts: ‘Face-to-Face’, from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian.
- Petrina Foti, Computers Collection at the NMAH, Smithsonian, processes objects from Ralph Baer, the Father of the Video Game.
- The Source: news about digital libraries and library innovations from around the web, every Friday, from the National Library of New Zealand.
- ‘Visualizing search data: What’s the right amount of visibility?’ from the New York Public Library.
- ‘MW2009 Clouds, Switches, APIs, Geolocation and Galleries – a shoddy summary’, by Seb Chan, Powerhouse Museum.
- Call for submissions to the 2009 Bradford Animation Festival by the National Media Museum.
- The State Library of Queensland, Australia, reports on the success of ‘Discovering Queensland’, their community history course. They’ll hold another in October.
- Podcast of the DC Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting, held on March 25, 2009
- Notes from Anzac Day, by the Australian War Memorial.
- Join the Museum Twibe. It’s a Twitter thang.
- Sowing Culture: an interesting blog on history that we ran across this week when they linked to our Morse post.
A Call to Action:
Enter The Smithsonian Institution’s YouTube Video Contest. Tell them how to position the Smithsonian for the New Media Generation.
Go Visit!
Just opened – I Do Solemnly Swear: Photographs of the 2009 Inauguration, at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. See some of them online at CNN.
April 30 through May 4 - drop by the Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibition Services booth at the American Association of Museums annual meeting in Philadelphia.
May 2 - Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum; enjoy free programs of art and entertainment from 5–11 p.m.
May 7 - Star Trek IMAX, the new film by J.J. Abrams (Lost), screens at midnight at the National Media Museum! Beam me up, Scotty, with a racy, young James T. Kirk, too.
May 7 - Poet Laureate Kay Ryan reads at the Library of Congress in the Coolidge Auditorium.
Throughout May – Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at the Library of Congress.
Tags: Australian War Memorial, Brooklyn Museum, D.C. Public Library, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, National Library of New Zealand, National Maritime Museum, National Media Museum, New York Public Library, Powerhouse Museum, Smithsonian Institution