The New York Public Library announced it now offers 180,000 images in their NYPL Digital Collections of library materials in the public domain. These images can be downloaded in the highest resolution available and “everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways.” In fact, it’s encouraged. via ARTnews
The New York Times has a quiz today, “Are You Smarter than a Billionaire?” which asks you to guess which item, in a pair from this week’s auction sales, got the highest price. There are some surprises. To help get you in the right frame of price reference: the Modigliani below fetched $170 million.
Artstor just announced the unveiling of a valuable new addition to their collection: 10,000 architectural photos, plans, sections, and other drawings. And this is just phase I – the collection will be doubling in size. This new content comes via a collaboration with the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Avery…
Culture Monster highlights innovative examples of how various museums in Los Angeles are using digital technology: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles: Interactive CT scans offer another way to access mummies Autry National Center: In the exhibition space, first-person stories of characters features in the “Civil War” exhibit play as films from user-activated “daguerreotypes” (and,…
An LA Times article today highlights two archives of great interest to students of US history: Photogrammar and Chronicling America. Photogrammar is based at Yale University, and contains 170,000 photos commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information between 1935 and 1945. The photographs are actually housed at the Library…
Open Access Week is an annual international event that promotes open access as a new norm in research and scholarship. Please join us for any or all of the Library’s Open Access Week programs to learn about trends and challenges in scholarly publishing. Programs held during the week include: Reinventing Scholarly Publishing: UC Press. Monday,…