Heard around the Commons:

• Anzac Day across the Commons. The Australia War Memorial has an excellent tribute and a report on the Simpson Prize awarded for Anzac Day.
• The John Oxley Library (State Library of Queensland, Australia) records responses on the Apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples and also reports on the Anzac Day presentations.
• The Library of Congress reports that the World Digital Library received 14 million page views between Tuesday and Wednesday its first week.
• For Earth Day, the Oregon State University Archive recommends “The dawn of the color photograph: Albert Kahn’s archives of the planet” by David Okuefuna. Check out more of the OSU’s Earth Day resources here.
• Opposing viewpoints laid out at the Smithsonian 2.0 Forum.
• The WaPo reports on the 77 American self-portraits now on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: ‘Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the 20th Century‘
• We Are What We Photograph: an article by Merry A. Foresta, Smithsonian Photography Initiative.
• Lincoln’s Other White House: a podcast from the D.C. Public Library.
• The Spider and the Web: an online experiment by Dan Cohen. He posts an item from the Smithsonian Institution to Twitter, asking for it to be identified. I’m anxious to see the results.
• Smithsonian Institution Facebook Page Fans: How to add their updates to your newsfeed.
• Let Freedom Ring: an article by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative on what’s legal to photograph.
• How stuff happens: H.R.586 – Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009: to direct the Librarian of Congress and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out a joint project at the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement, and for other purposes.
• The Powerhouse Museum describes the assembly of the astrographic camera.
• Meet the conservator at the Brooklyn Museum: Carolyn Tomkiewicz explains the process of arranging the debris.
• The Brooklyn Museum approves an API key for an iPhone app.
• A study by Simon Tanner at the Mellon Foundation on the cost and policy models adapted by US arts museums in arriving at pricing structures for delivering imaging and rights services.
• Don’t miss the Friday wrap-up of digital news and notes that the National Library of New Zealand puts out weekly.
• The Telegraph and Argus discovers hidden treasures at the National Media Museum.

More Info from the Museums and the Web 2009 Conference:

Shelley at the Brooklyn Museum says, Paula Bray and Seb Chan from Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum came to visit us on Monday. They just produced a Blurb book from their materials on the Flickr Commons and Brooklyn had done a Blurb book for Click! so we made a trade!

Brooklyn Museum

With the Powerhouse peeps (Seb and Paula) at dinner with the dinos in the Australian Museum.

Shelley Bernstein

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23-25 April 2009 – The Rochester International Film Festival at the Dryden Theater, George Eastman House – Celebrating the festival’s 50th year, this event hosts films from around the world.

Through April 26 – Photographs by Andy Lock at the George Eastman House.

27 April – An EPA official discusses global approach to environmental challenges at the Whittall Pavilion, located on the ground floor of the Library of Congress’s Thomas Jefferson Building – this event is free.

28 April – The Federal Writers’ Project will be the focus of an excerpted film screening and panel discussion, “Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project,” in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the Library of Congress.

Starting 30 April – Directions by Walead Beshty, at the Hirshhorn Museum (Smithsonian Institution). “Beshty’s mesmerizing photographs blend an enduring fascination with modernist visual culture and an astute inquiry into the nature of photography.”

The last day of the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis saw a full morning of demonstrations, including two on museum-based social tagging, and an afternoon of papers, including one from the Powerhouse Museum’s Paula Bray on Flickr’s Commons, paired with a paper about Ontario Science Centre’s YouTube meetups.

Here’s a taste of the Saturday chatter:

@briankelly: At. Museum Pipes demo at #mw2009. Cool. Must subscribe to museumpipes.wordpress.com Thanks Piotr Adamczyk

@publichistorian: Sending in artifacts for GOAC: some players found Smithsonian intimidating; others excited to have items they made “accessioned” #mw2009

@zbartrout: Loving the buzz ArtsConnectEd is generating. Dozens of museums inquired about how to their content in ACE. Seems like a good sign. #mw2009

@georginab: We’ve seen people having Meet Ups in our museum, and have been dying to know how we can insert ourselves into the process #mw2009

@georginab: 999GlobalEvent (http://www.youtube.com/user/999globalevent): I hereby promise to try and get the Smithsonian involved in this! #mw2009

@KPfefferle: On Institutions and User Participation: “We’re looking for a fling when we should be thinking about marriage.” #mw2009

@kresin: What constitutes quality of life for museum visitors? How to help them to have a better experience & benefit in their real lives? #mw2009

Closer to home:

@Timh01: Powerhouse on top of things with their Tyrrell collection of images on Flickr Commons – well done guys need MV on the Commons ASAP #mw2009

@nikkitimmermans: powerhouse on flickr commons: Tyrrel sales didn’t drop, general sales increased slightly #mw2009

@KPfefferle: I love the concept of embracing controversial content and facilitating conversation – even seeding with multiple viewpoints #mw2009

And everyone was talking about this!

@Vexus_Nexus: Metadata sounds nicer when Finnish people say it #mw2009

The “backchannel” talk on Twitter also veered off into its own territory: What does all this digitization to make so many of these things possible cost, anyway?

@frankieroberto: Wondering how much it costs to ‘digitize’ a single archive photo? Would ‘first person pays’ model work? #mw2009

@sebchan: @frankieroberto we do the first person already. Still expensive if you bring in perm staff costs. #mw2009

@NancyProctor: @sebchan @frankieroberto Good point; would it be useful to compare per-image costs across museums&share tips on economies-been done? #mw2009

If you’re curious about just what it takes to get a photograph from a file or wall in a museum onto the Internet or even just into digital storage, keep an eye on Indicommons! More on that soon.

Ryand, of the George Eastman House, shares some stats with the Museum and Web Conference about their most popular image in the Commons. 40,463 all time views 36 tags (one is “Hombre sin cabeza”) 4 notes 86 comments 517 favorites 1 set 0 collections 2 groups The title? “Trick photo, decapitated man with bloody knife, holding his head.”

George Eastman House

Heard around the Commons:

• Congrats to State Library of Queensland’s Tania Schafer for being awarded The Australian Society of Archivists’ Loris Williams Scholarship!
• How to mash up the Commons’ photos with Google Earth.
• A multitouch, multiuser mashup allows visitors to explore Flickr photos geotagged into a Yahoo! Map. Hat tip to George for the find.
• Museums and the Web 2009 Conference: catch the dialogue on Twitter with #mw2009
• The D.C. Public Library makes headlines as it joins the Flickr Commons at LISNews, We Love DC, and Aaron’s own blog about it.
• Check out DCPL’s Then and Now photo contest, too!
• The D.C. Public Library has also launched the first free library iPhone application in the U.S.!
• Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training, edited by Mohamed Ally, looks like an informative read for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Hat tip to DCPL.
• Seb Chan, Powerhouse Museum, tells us how to integrate Tweets and other social network comments onto our blogs. We haven’t hooked that up yet at Indicommons, but I have used this plug-in elsewhere and highly recommend it.
• Museums and the Machine-Processable Web: A wiki led by the Science Museum, London, for museums using (or thinking of using) an API.
• Interview with Shelley Bernstein and Paul Beaudoin (Brooklyn Museum) at the electronic museum about their API.
• Here’s a Python module for the Brooklyn Museum’s API.
• The Brooklyn Museum updates the look and feel of its web calendar.
• The Brooklyn Museum’s Judy Kim explains how Sun K. Kwak came to the museum.
• An update from the Smithsonian Institution on its digitization program.
• A fun online postcard exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution.
• The SI’s Keith F. Davis on collecting photographs.
• The SI American Art Museum’s Ghosts of a Chance ARG is a Webby honoree!
• The Oregon State University Archives helps celebrate 150 years of Oregon! Ooh … films, too.
• The Bibliothèque de Toulouse reviews John Crowley’s film Boy A.
• The World Digital Library will launch on April 21st, in seven languages. The project has been developed by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, along with 32 other partners from around the world.

Go Visit!

21 April 2009: William Shakespeare’s 445th birthday will be celebrated at the Library of Congress with a reading of his works by 16 professional actors from the Shakespeare Theater Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University.

Heard around the Commons:

Chandra telescope x-ray
A Young Pulsar Shows its Hand, 2009
Smithsonian Institution: PSR B1509-58

This pulsar is spinning around almost 7 times a second and has a magnetic field at its surface estimated to be 15 trillion times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. It spans 150 light years. In other space news, the Smithsonian’s Chandra blog asks, “Is it easy being green?”

• Again, happy Commonsversary to the Powerhouse Museum!
• Learn more about the Powerhouse’ Commons images impact on their image sales.
• Also, Paula at the Powerhouse informs us on the future of image licensing.
• Courtney Johnson, of the National Library of New Zealand, announces the call for contributions for the 2009 National Digital Forum Conference.
• The Library of Congress, UNESCO and 32 partner institutions will launch the World Digital Library on 21 April 2009.
• The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and Oregon State University renew their bond. The OSU Archives’ blog has lots of information on this historic event.
• Jacki Rand, formerly of the Smithsonian, discusses what it’s like to be a Native American working on a committee of white men to plan an Indian museum, from the History News Network.
• Art museums in U.S. hope that technology will sustain interest, from the AP. The Brooklyn Museum gets a mention.
• Also, the Brooklyn Museum discusses the results of their online quiz.
• The History Engine looks like a fun website. Hat tip to OSU.
• Marvin Heiferman, of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, asks, “What should reality look like?”
• Gays Picket White House: a 1965 film from the Smithsonian.
• Jazz Oral Histories: the Smithsonian presents a number of clips from jazz legends.
• Voices of Slavery: Did you know the Library of Congress has these podcasts online?
• A wrap-up of the State Library of Queensland, Australia’s, 75th anniversary of the John Oxley Library.
• 11,000 Easter Eggs!
• Where’s Smithy?

Go Visit!

14 Apr 2009 – Imperial Superimpositions: The Graphing of Empire at the National Galleries of Scotland, a talk by Lee Fontanella, Carnegie Centenary Professor, University of Stirling. The photographing of Spain by nineteenth-century British photographer Charles Clifford may be understood as a visual narrative in which the image of Empire is underscored.

15-18 April 2009 A Northwest History and Heritage Extravaganza, including the 2009 Oregon Heritage Conference, the Pacific Northwest History Conference and the annual meetings of the Northwest Archivists and the Northwest Oral History Association, will take place in Portland.

Through 19 Apr 2009 – Bradford Babies at the National Media Museum, is a celebration of the babies and their families in our local community, past and present.

Heard around the Commons:

• The Glenview Public Library suggests using the Commons for genealogy.
• Help the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen decide to join the Commons.
• Derivative Images, of the University of Colorado (Yay! Buffaloes!), discusses the Commons.
• Some brief summaries of the Flickr Commons session at the Computers in Libraries conference in Arlington, Virginia: Digitization 101 (Jill Hurst-Wahl and David Lee King), Librarian by Day (Bobbi L. Newman), and Library Geek Woes.
• Lots of logging information from the Oregon State University Archives’ April Fools set! Timber!
• The Powerhouse Museum’s Photo of the Day blog celebrates its 500th post … and you can win a print!
• Meet curator Erika Dicker at the Powerhouse Museum’s new blog, Object of the Week.
• Elizabeth Thomsen explores Commenting the Commons.
• Profiling Social Networks: A Social Tagging Perspective. Hat tip to the National Library of New Zealand for this find.
• The Brooklyn Museum posts a series of articles, “Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned.” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
• Seb Chan at the Powerhouse Museum also discusses Wikipedia and that the museum’s online documentation is now licensed under Creative Commons.
• The Smithsonian Institution (SI) tells us about Ray Strong painting the Golden Gate Bridge. See more at the SI’s Flickr group, 1934.
• Hat tip to the SI for this info on U.S. stimulus funding for research. Government money—It’s not just for Wall Street!
• The Library of Congress reports that the public-domain status of early sound recordings is delayed until 2067.
• The National Media Museum aims to open a London satellite for photography exhibits.
• The Bibliothèque de Toulouse posts a review of Jean-Paul Lilienfeld’s “The Day of the Skirt,” a broadcast about women, racism, and the integration of young people.
• The Australian War Memorial reports on the conservation of the Mark IV tank. Oooh, tanks.

Go Visit!

April – It’s Jazz Appreciation Month! Check out the Smithsonian’s offerings.

03 Apr. – Live webcast from the Smithsonian’s Chandra Observatory! Part of Around the World in 80 Telescopes.

03 Apr. – Charles Parker Day, from the National Media Museum.

Starting 03 Apr. – Film screenings in 200-seat Art Deco theater resume at Library of Congress Packard Campus. A Hard Day’s Night!

04 Apr. – Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum—Swing-era tunes, French and Italian arias, dance, talks, and more.

04 Apr. – Join the National Galleries of Scotland for a selection of faces in the Portrait Gallery’s collection, including Mary Queen of Scots.

05 Apr. – Open day at the John Oxley Library (State Library of Queensland, Australia) in honor of its 75th birthday.

05 Apr. – Join the George Eastman House for a screening of Victor Fleming’s 1934 Treasure Island. Arrrrr.

Heard around the Commons:

• The Swedish National Heritage Board posts some welcoming stats about their new Commons account!
• They also receive favorable press!
• The Brooklyn Museum gets press about the Sun.K Kwak installation that opens today.
• Effie, at the Smithsonian Institution, discusses the effort the Commons as a collective made for Women’s Day.
• The Oregon State University is also blogging about their Commons women.
• Tags in Space! A great read about an astronomy project the National Maritime Museum is involved in on Flickr.
• The Library of Congress boasts about their historic Stevie Wonder concert. View the webcast!
• Paula at the Powerhouse Museum informs us about hi-res zooming on their digital archives.
• Happy 75th birthday to the John Oxley Library, part of the State Library of Queensland, Australia!
• Tony Bannon, Director of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, is in California this coming week for the Palm Springs Photo Festival, and hopes to see you there!
• The Bibliothèque de Toulouse reviews Phillippe Lioret’s new film, Welcome.
• The New Curator discusses the Tate’s collection and Google Street View; OK, that’s not about the Commons, but it is cool, and might inspire someone to do something similar using the Flickr API, the Commons photos, and Street View. Any takers?

Go Visit!

Opens today – Sun K. Kwak’s Enfolding 280 Hours installation at the Brooklyn Museum. That’s a lot of tape! View it large.

Sun K. Kwak Enfolding 280 Hours
Brooklyn Museum

30/31 March - A two-day symposium on the history and impact of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, at the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.

02 Apr - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney to lecture on Cherry Blossom Symbolism at the Library of Congress.

Closing 05 April – Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection at the Brooklyn Museum.

Heard around the Commons:

• Catch the National Library of New Zealand’s blog every Friday for a digital library carnival.
• The Smithsonian Institution (SI) discusses museum transparency and the dashboard.
• The National Museum of American History (SI) muses about the future of digital history.
• The SI also launches the Latino Virtual Museum in Second Life.
• The Washington Post posts a great video on the great cats of the SI.
• Baby anteater born at the National Zoo (SI)!
• Powerhouse Museum asks, “Why photograph signs?”
• View the Library of Congress’s webcast “Digitizing American Imprints.”
• Watch Historic Panoramic Photographs from the State Library of Queensland, Australia — a gem of a show with insight into the library’s processes.

Recent uploads to the Commons:

Everything from the Swedish National Heritage Board is new! Try out this set of Carl Curman’s travels in Denmark, Holland and Germany. He was a physician and a scientist who did a lot of traveling abroad in Europe, to study health resorts, art and architecture.

Carl Curman – Europe

While you’re visiting Europe, the Biblioteca de Arte–Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian has another set of photos from the Mário Novais studio, all about exhibitions: agricultural, farming, industrial or service photography.

Exposições de cariz económico

Swing by France to see magnificent castles from the Bibliothèque de Toulouse.

Châteaux

The Oregon State University Archives takes you to Ireland to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

Whiddy Island

Don’t drink too much, though, or you’ll ride off the rails. The Nationaal Archief documents all sorts of troubles.

Ongelukken / Accidents

Did you know that the US Army set up logging camp in Oregon to build spruce airplanes for World War I? The Oregon State University Archives tells us how.

Gerald Williams Collection: Spruce Production Division

Don’t forget, all photos from the Nantucket Historical Association are new. This actor’s colony escaped the stifling city heat in summer for anything goes on the island.

‘Sconset Actors Colony

The State Library of New South Wales presents … Katharine Hepburn!

Film & cinema

Derek Powazek’s session at SXSW mentions the Brooklyn’s Museum’s Click! exhibition.

Click! at SXSW

Another captivating video from the Powerhouse Museum. The Powerhouse keeps adding to its Tyrrell Collection, too, where the photo in this video is from.

Exploring Martin Place

More scientific women from the Smithsonian! You’ll enjoy Adventures in the Morgue.

Women in Science

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20 Mar.–24 Apr.: Attend an interactive 6-week Queensland history course at the State Library of Queensland, Australia.

Heard around the Commons:

• The Luce Foundation Center, part of the Smithsonian, discusses how Flickr “citizen curators” help with their projects.
• The Powerhouse Museum reports on a talk given by Shelley Bernstein, Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum, at the Transformation in Cultural and Scientific Communications Conference.
• Free photos, an audio report on the Commons from Radio New Zealand, featuring our own Brenda Anderson and Courtney Johnston of the National Library of New Zealand (audio file – 16 min.).
• The National Library of New Zealand summarizes the Designing & Sustaining Creative Communities workshop from Webstock, including good bits from Heather Champ, Director of Community at Flickr.
• Peer inside Lincoln’s watch, from the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian).
• Tweet! “Smithsonian Photos on Flickr Commons got as many visitors in the first 3 months, as last 5 years on our sites.”
• The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) discusses the portrayal of women in science, a nice adjunct to its Flickr set for Women’s History Month.
• Oregon State University Archives and the Powerhouse Museum also blog about International Women’s Day here, here and here.
• Humour: Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person, from Michael Edson of Smithsonian 2.0.

Recent uploads from the Commons:

An enjoyable set of lighthouses from the Nantucket Historical Association, the newest member of the Commons. The waters around Nantucket are deceptively dangerous. Many boats have been ripped apart in the shoals and rips around the island, and few older Nantucketers don’t have stories about shipwrecks and disasters at sea.

Nantucket Lighthouses, Lightships, and Lifesavers

Photos of heroism from the Australian War Memorial. In the clear skies over the Western Front in France and in the Middle East, young men fought in flimsy machines of wood, linen, and wire.

Over the Front: aircraft and airmen from the First World War

The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian features photographic advertising for products, companies, and shops, produced by Studio Mário Novais.

Publicidade

The State Archives of Florida brings to life folk musicians, artisans, storytellers, folklife interpreters, and other Florida peoples and their traditions.

Florida Folklife Collection

Elegance and grace, from the State Library of New South Wales.

Ballet

I want to ride my bicycle … and you can, virtually, with this set from the State Library of Queensland, Australia.

Bicycles and more

And a re-cap on all the fabulous uploads for International Women’s Day in the Commons!

International Women’s Day

Go Visit!

18 Mar. – The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the National Portrait Gallery present two films by Bonnie Kreps: Don’t Fence Me In: Celebrating Women and Girls of Wyoming and Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story, a biography of a woman who played a key role in preserving the magnificent wild and scenic landscapes of Alaska.

19 Mar. – Alex Harris discusses his journey into Cuba, part of the Wish You Were Here travel lecture series at the George Eastman House.

Every Thursday – Meet our Museum at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Heard around the Commons:

• What does it take to join the Commons? ArchivesNext asked Tiah Edmunson-Morton of the Oregon State University Archives exactly that!
• The Brooklyn Museum has its own API for its web collection! Read the museum’s announcement and visit the API site for more details. The National Library of New Zealand also has its own API.
• Elliot Young, at the National Library of New Zealand’s blog, explains Subversive Git, a good summary of version control systems.
• The Powerhouse Museum tells a great tale about a remixed photograph from its Flickr collection.
• Try a book review of Yesterday’s Tomorrows: The Powerhouse Museum and Its Precursors, 1880-2005, by Graeme Davison and Kimberley Webber.
• Seb Chan discusses a number of tools at the Powerhouse Museum’s Fresh and New(er) blog: Readability – reducing clutter with a bookmarklet, QR Code and a Google Analytics Report Enhancer.
• Did you know the George Eastman House held an Academy Awards 2009 party?
• The wrap-up post for the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian dig. We’ll be interviewing someone on their team about the dig later this month.
• In the news: the Library of Congress tells CBS all about data rot.
• Panda Time! Learn about the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Pandas (video).
• Also, the Smithsonian Institution launches a new blog on photography. As new photos are uploaded to the Commons, the Smithsonian asks archivists, researchers, and curators to talk about some of the fun stories in the pictures or behind the scenes.

Recent uploads from the Commons:

Oregon State University Archives posts a magnificent series of photos depicting Celilo Falls on the Columbia River prior to the construction of the Dalles Dam in 1957. The falls were once Native American fishing grounds. OSU provides a wealth of links and resources to discover more about this buried treasure.

Gerald W. Williams Collection: Celilo Falls

Get your locomotive on with Paths of Iron, train photography from the Estúdio Mário Novais, archived by the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses

Discover the architecture of Gourdon, a small town in southwestern France with a rich prehistoric past, from the Bibliothèque de Toulouse,.

Gourdon

Fascinating group and crowd scenes by William Hall Raine, a Wellington, New Zealand, photographer. This is first in a number of Raine sets from the National Library of New Zealand.

William Hall Raine

The Powerhouse Museum adds to its Phillips Collection. Read the write-up at the museum’s blog.

Phillips Glass Plate Negatives Collection

The Smithsonian Institution adds to the corpus of Lincoln photographs. See these treasures in person at the One Life: The Mask of Lincoln exhibit.

Abraham Lincoln

More new uploads from the State Archives of Florida … put on a happy face!

Florida Commerce

It’s almost International Women’s Day! Suffragettes galore from the Library of Congress.

News in the 1910s

Go Visit!

Now Hiring: Media Assistant for the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian Institution. Help the SI use social media!

13-28 Mar.: The Bradford International Film Festival at the National Media Museum. Experience film from Mexico, Latvia, Japan, France, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States.

Heard around the Commons:

• The State Library of Queensland continues its series on the history of the John Oxley Library.
• The Smithsonian Institution leverages the web for its traveling exhibits by creating a Wiki for Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography.
• A must-read write-up in the Chronicles of Higher Education on Oregon State University Archives’ entrance into the Flickr Commons.
• Family Matters tells a personal story about the State Archives of Florida in the Commons.
• Great Dance details the Brooklyn Museum’s use of social media.
• Elizabeth Thomsen has great ideas for libraries thinking of using Flickr, including the Commons.
• Disability Studies at Temple University thinks the Commons’ photos can initiate conversation about disabilities.
• Dan Cull has some inspiring thoughts about awarding art conservators and Web 2.0. Check out some of the Flickr projects mentioned.
• Roy Tennant at LibraryJournal.com blogs about us and the Commons.
• Nods to us from New Curator, Stamfli and Turci (art dealers), and Hanging Together.
• Humour: Museums suck? How to de-suckify your exhibits.

Recent uploads from the Commons:

The State Archives of Florida goes on an uploading spree, adding to their Florida Commerce set. The collection includes images of Florida people, places, and events dating from the 1940s through 1996. Some of these are very amusing, including the photos of Weeki Wachee Springs.

Florida Commerce

The E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection at the Smithsonian Institution contains images of lighting fixtures and other fine metal objects produced from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries.

E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection

Mosteiros from the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian showcases tiles from monasteries in Portugal. Photos by John Miguel Dos Santos Simões. Also, they have uploaded new photos to three other sets: Concelho da Batalha, Igreja de São Roque, and Palácios portugueses! An indulgence of architecture!

Mosteiros

Go behind the scenes at the Brooklyn Museum and watch Sun K. Kwak Enfolding 280 Hours. Sun K. Kwak is creating a site-specific work composed of approximately three miles of black masking tape; the exhibit opens in late March.

Sun K. Kwak Enfolding 280 Hours

The State Library of Queensland, Australia adds a few new photos to its collection on Flickr. Entertaining stuff!

State Library of Queensland, Australia

OSU Baseball! celebrates the first 100 years of baseball at Oregon State University. Take me out to the ballgame! Also, Fashion on Flickr: “Revamp, Remix, Rewear”: Oregon’s too-sexy strutting down the catwalk. Check out their collection of sets, History in the Making, covering fashion, recycling, religion, and Obama. Whew.

OSU Baseball!

Go Visit!

05 Mar: The Conservation and Preservation of Nineteenth-Century Photographic Materials at the Library of Congress. Adrienne Lundgren, Senior Photograph Conservator in the Conservation Division at the LOC, will give an overview of the five main photographic processes used in the 19th century.

07 Mar: 1stFans meet-up at the Brooklyn Museum. Matt Held is the special guest.

11 Mar: Application deadline for Junior Fellows Summer Internships at the Library of Congress. The interns will be exposed to a broad spectrum of library work: preservation, reference, access standards, information management, and the U.S. copyright system.