The Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources (OHR) has partnered with the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) to create and launch HistoricPlacesLA: Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory, the “first online information and management system specifically created to help inventory, map, describe, and protect Los Angeles’ significant cultural resources.” HistoricPlacesLA is published through Arches, a open-source geospatial…
The Endangered Archives Programme, hosted by the British Library and funded by Arcadia, is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a contributor to the preservation of archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration world-wide. The Programme depends entirely upon researchers, archivists and librarians with an interest in a specific subject, region or…
If you’ve never seen a murmuration of starlings (and probably few of us have) these photos in the LA Times will make you gasp. A murmuration is the mass movement of an entire flock. The photos are like a series of very temporary sculptures.
Zeno.org, another source for research and images, is a German language site with a scope similar to Open Library and Project Gutenberg but also includes over 40,000 works of art in sizes suitable for teaching presentations. The site is organized by subject matter and ebooks, or you can search names and keywords for images and…
The Library of Congress regularly offers webinars providing an interactive orientation to their vast online resources and services. For example, many records in their Prints and Photographs catalog include information on known publication restrictions and digital images that can be downloaded as large, high-resolution tiffs. The next offering of “Introducing loc.gov: Orientation and Research Strategies”…
Places Journal, dedicated to public scholarship on architecture, landscape and urbanism, has a new responsive website. Browsing the Explore Places tab yields sections grouped by columnists or keywords such as Reputations, California, Ecology, Sustainability, Critical Practice and many others. h/t SAH