This one’s for you, Shelley!

The Nancy Grey with a whale, Norway.

Library of Congress

A whale in Sydney Harbour.

State Library of New South Wales

Model of a whale.

Smithsonian Institution

Posing on whale bones.

State Library and Archives of Florida

Stranded blackfish whales.

National Library of New Zealand

Whaling / Walvisvaart

Nationaal Archief

A sperm whale jawbone.

Nantucket Historical Association

A large whale skeleton.

Field Museum

Whale-back at pier.

Brooklyn Museum

A happy first year in the Commons to the National Library of New Zealand, who joined The Commons on Flickr on November 27, 2008. Since then, we’ve learned just how active in new ways of reaching out to users through technology the NLNZ is, with exciting projects like DigitalNZ. And check the magnifier on their front-page announcement about their December move – we users like some fun as well as a chance to contributte!

But here at Indicommons, our heart is with the NLNZ on Flickr, and here are some of the ways …

Panoramas

House and grounds of R H Edie, Edievale, Otago, between 1923-1928

Stereographs!

Photographer and assistant, with a camera, between 1902-1922

Celebration of the end of a war

New Zealand soldiers and civilians in London at the end of World War I, 1918

Views of Antarctica

Photographer: Herbert Ponting

… and all the people and places of New Zealand.

Wairoa Geyser, Whakarewarewa, 1908

Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthday party, at Vailima, ca 1893

Huge sunfish thrown up on beach at Awatuna, near Hokitika, ca 1910

Close-up view of a Port Chalmers wharf and ships loading, 1870s

The Commons Galleries – featuring Brenda Anderson’s curation

I like the scale of these shots…

Bibliothèque de Toulouse

big rivers of ice, with little people.

Library of Congress

I also love the fact that most of the people seem to be dressed in their “Sunday best”,

Powerhouse Museum

almost like a stroll on a glacier is just like a stroll downtown…

National Library of New Zealand

only it’s colder and one must carry a stick.

Oregon State University Archives

View the full gallery here to leave your comments!

David De Maus
Ship Garthsnaid, ca 1920s
National Library of New Zealand: 1/2-014494-G

view + comment on Flickr

Archival footage brought to you by the Walt Disney Imagineers. Hat tip to the Getty Museum for this great web find. I got sucked into watching the whole series just now of time-lapse photography of the building of Disneyland in Southern California, circa the 1950s.

Heard around the Commons:

• Be a Friend with Benefits! the Brooklyn Museum tells how.
• Congrats to Smithsonian Science, Voice of America’s website winner of the week!
• When Good People Love Bad Pictures, some musings on photos and the internet, by Marvin Heiferman of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative
• How to build an 8-foot-tall light bulb out of LEGO bricks, from the SI’s National Museum of American History.
• The Prisoner of Zenda – read all about George Eastman House’s newest nitrate motion-picture acquisition (with great stills, too!).
• The Swedish National Heritage Board weighs in on social media. They also discuss bicycling to work.
• The New York Public Library has some tips for midlife job hunters.
• Read all about the White Gloves Tour in the Granite Belt region at the State Library of Queensland, Australia’s blog.
• Coming Soon: DCPL Discovery Packs for SirsiDynix Libraries, from the D.C. Public Library.
• Scientist Scott A. Braun Discusses “Peering Into the Storm: NASA’s Exploration of Hurricanes” on 16 September, at the Library of Congress.
• The Oregon State University Archives brings you The Legend of Llao Rock. Also, check out the story of Mt. Mazama.
• Put The Source from the National Library of New Zealand on your reading list; it’s news about digital libraries and library innovations from around the web.
• Starting 11 September, the National Library of Wales brings us Ken Elias: A Retrospective – a celebration of 40 years of painting.

Your weekly recap of happenings around the Flickr Commons.

The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition Oregon State University Archives

Let’s start the week off with a challenge! The Oregon State University Archives just added a map to their 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition set on Flickr. Anyone feel game to create a mash-up similar to what we did with the Chicago Expo? Read more about the finding of this map at OSU Archives’ blog.

• The Museum Computer Network 2009 conference is being held November 11-14 in Portland, OR. OSU Archives will present its case study of the Flickr Commons!
• Speaking of Portland, anyone know anything about some of the rose gardens there? OSU wants your help!
• Some clarifications on our experience with ‘free’ content – Seb Chan at the Powerhouse Museum responds to a question about their experience with the Flickr Commons.
• Be sure to catch his presentation schedule, too. Lots coming up.
• The 2009 National Digital Forum conference will be held November 23-24 at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Courtney Johnson at the National Library of New Zealand has information on subsidies for small organizations.
• Stacking the Tech: The Library of Congress Talks Digital Initiatives with the folks at Library Journal.
• Catch this write-up, by L’Archivista of the Building, Managing and Participating in Online Communities session at the Society of American Archivists 2009 conference.
• The American Historical Association provides a Take Two of Snapshots of the Past: The Commons on Flickr, an overview of the institutions that have joined the Commons since their first article.
• Picturing Rochester: Got photos of Rochester, New York? George Eastman House wants ‘em!
• The Powerhouse Museum has labels! And they want your visitor labels for their Odditoreum!
• The National Library of Wales has new podcasts up! Great stories of the library from folks that used to work there.
• Astrobiology: Life in Space, a webcast from the Library of Congress of Daniel P. Glavin, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, who says the possibility of extraterrestrial life in our solar system is not limited to Mars.
• You’ll like the preview of the D.C. Public Library’s new website!
• Read about the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Peel Island lazaret, from the State Library of Queensland, Australia.
• Not sure where to find the Smithsonian on the internet? Here’s a guide.
• The SI and the Chandra X-ray makes news about research on the birth of stars.
• Harewood House and some historic photographs of Yorkshire – a fun field trip with the National Media Museum!
• ARRRRRRRR! The Field Museum wants you to dress like a pirate!

The Brooklyn Museum Crew

Twitter was all up in arms last weeks with #dukeriley. Here’s the Brooklyn Museum’s battleship. The New York Times and WNYC explain.

A bag functions like a physical envelope that is used to send content through the mail but with bags, a user sends content from one computer to another. This video describes the preparation and transfer of data over the network in bags.

Heard around the Commons:

• Got a minute to vote for the Powerhouse Museum’s incredible Flickr Commons book? C’mon – click on over to Blurb.
• Stereo-view detail: The Powerhouse Museum gives a little background on the topic.
• All is not lost – using digital photography to recover daguerreotypes: a great preservation resource from the Powerhouse.
• Michael Feinstein comes to George Eastman House in October – get yer tickets!
• Oregon State University Archives explains their “trip to Mount Hood.”
• Are you reading the National Library of New Zealand’s Source? Every Friday, a wrap-up of things of use to digital libraries..
• Cataloging for Gold: Learn what college students have unearthed at the Library of Congress over the summer.
• Art review: The Chimaera of Arezzo at the Getty Villa: An LA Times article about happenings at the Getty Museum.
• Want to know where to stay up with the Smithsonian Institution online? card.ly can help.
• Right now in the Luce Foundation Center (Smithsonian Institution) you can borrow a Flip Mino and shoot a video of your museum visit!
• What price fame? by Marvin Heiferman, Smithsonian Photography Initiative, discusses Annie Leibovitz’s financial situation in a broader sense.
• And, Down at the Drive-In, by Christin Boggs, Smithsonian Photography Initiative, is an awesome take on the intersection of media and transportation.
• And the SI has some notes about the International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting on their Chandra X-ray blog. Check out their 10th Anniversary post, too.
• Did Michael Jackson model face after Egyptian bust? The Chicago Sun-Times unearths some spooky stuff at the Field Museum.
• Fflur Dafydd wins £5,000 literary prize for book set at The National Library of Wales! yay!
• Plan a trip to the National Media Museum!
• Or, learn from them how to digitize motoring photographs!
• The State Library of Queensland, Australia, weighs in on conserving gilded frames in the Richard Daintree Photographic Collection.

Friday Fun!

… your welcome is assured…

History in the making, with a clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happy Weekend!