You won’t find any nudity there, but yet — I have become obsessed with Instagram as a medium for snippets of this life. The “no nudity” policy, this is good and bad. Bad, because I love nudity– and good because it makes us get around the no nudity policy in creative ways– it seems to…
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Check out the Occupy Wall Street Library Blog
The Occupy Wall Street Library: The People’s Library was raided last night. Follow the blog to find out up-to-date news on the happening of the library and the movement in NYC. Must read posts– Life in the Big City morning sirens and random kicks against tent tourists shuffling through Bloombergville shapeless figures in sleeping-bags sprawled in Manhattan flowerbeds…
San Francisco State University Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives
Professional Experience: Archive Internship Log 1, Septermber 30, 2011 Fall 2011 Approaching the four week mark of my internship at the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University I feel confident in my ability to perform and accomplish the needs that the Poetry Center and I have worked to establish….
Review: Conserving for the Future by Archiving our Past
Review: Conserving for the Future by Archiving our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection By Cybèle Werts Ideas cannot by definition become an object that actually smells like it was read long ago by a girl on a porch swing one late autumn evening. ~Cybele Werts In…
Online Collection Assignment Using OCLC’s Content dm
by Anissa Malady, Gina Storelli, Josh Roselle, Kimberly Hayden This assignment allowed us to get a hands on approach to creating a digitization project utilizing a professional commercial software system. This is the paper details the outcome. Online Collection Assignment Using OCLC Contentdm by Anissa Malady, Gina Storelli, Josh Roselle, Kimberly Hayden is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. LIBR 284-02, Scott,…
The Real Estates guide to painters, poets and rock stars
With the aid of digital resources such as, ProQuest, the digitized New York Times and the ColumbiaUniversity digital collection– have allowed nonprofessionals to become local micro-historians. The Albert Hotel Addresses Its Myths, by Christopher Gray published on April, 15, 2011 in the Real Estate section of the NYT, discusses the creation of work that lead…
The San Francisco Public Library Historical Photograph Collection
Free and Equal Access The San Francisco Public Libraries Historical Photograph Collection, is a true highlight of the Library. Located on the 6th floor, the collection consists of mainly photographs, but also holds works on paper, dating from 1850 to the present. The collection is housed and ran by the knowledgeable staff at the San…
24 Hours of Public Programs
NYPL to digitize 24 hours of audio recordings I do absolutely love the digital presences of the New York Public Library! With funding from the the The Metropolitan New York Library Council, NYPL plans to digitize their audio collection from their public educational program series. From the start of the series in 1983 NYPL has…
Open Congress — S.3804: Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act – U.S. Congress – OpenCongress
S.3804: Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act – U.S. Congress – OpenCongress.
Chrome Experiments: Not your mother’s JavaScript.
The purpose of this essay is to simulate an acquisitions proposal. I have chosen the Chrome Experiments as a possible project for inclusion in a digital library or archive setting. The proposal examines the many Chrome Experiments with focus on “The Wilderness Downtown,” an interactive artistic music video created using recent technologies such as HTML5….
Anissa Malady 