Carnival of the Commons
Posted by zyrcster in Carnival of The CommonsBrooklyn Museum
Heard around the Commons:
- The Field Museum joins the Flickr Commons! Write-ups at Flickr and at LISNews.
- Give Mom a gift for Mother’s Day by donating to the Smithsonian in her name.
- Beyond the search box — an excellent slideshow from Paul Hagon on social media, APIs, and your collections.
- Picture Australia — wow, a very cool interactive site, and they have a Flickr group. Get inspired. Hat tip to Paul!
- New finding aids for April! — The Oregon State University Archives talks up its finding aids at the Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA).
- @nlnz — Learn how the National Library of New Zealand uses Twitter.
- Infomaki goes Open Source! – The New York Public Library’s usability testing tool is now released Open Source under the GNU General Public License.
- Photosynth — The Smithsonian Institution shows off its collections in a new way.
- America on the Move — A Smithsonian online interactive exhibit.
- Photography changes what we think “reality” looks like — From the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, non-camera-centric models for attaining realism.
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian — the back story about the props used in the upcoming movie.
- The Library of Congress Experience — A video demonstrating the LOC’s interactive exhibitions that integrate with their website at MyLOC.
- The LOC also picks up a new blogger!
- The Brooklyn Museum is the star of a new commercial.
- Behind-the-scenes — A look at the Powerhouse Museum’s photography studio.
- Stone’s Corner — The State Library of Queensland, Australia, provides insight into the history of this Brisbane suburb.
Go Visit!
- Now Open: Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video at the Brooklyn Museum.
- Throughout May: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Throughout May: Jewish American Heritage Month at the Library of Congress.
- May 9: Gallery of Modern Art May Highlights Tour at the National Galleries of Scotland
- Opening May 9: Not a Cornfield, a photography/video installation at the George Eastman House. Catch a video of artist Lauren Bon and the installation team on the “Earth Pillow” piece. Also, Don McCullin — in England, images by the famed British photographer, and Animalism, “contemporary media responses to our complex and sometimes uncomfortable relationship with the animal world.”
- May 9 & 10: Mom’s Weekend at Oregon State University!
- May 13: Water: Sustaining Our Blue Planet at the Field Museum, a talk with Jeffrey Sachs and Peter Annin.
Your Friday Fun:
-hat tip to george for this one!

