The digital Albrecht Haupt Collection is now accessible online. Under TIB SAH digital, the partial holdings of individual hand drawings and prints from the special collections of the Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover (TIB) have been made available with open access and text in German or English. Approximately 6,200 works on paper from four centuries on various…
Photographer Angelo Antonio Rizzuto – or Anthony Angel, as he called himself – captured a variety of people, structures, and places in Manhattan over the eighteen-year period from 1949 through 1967. Collectively, the thousands of images by Angel in the Prints & Photographs Division offer a window into life and the built environment in a…
The Library of Congress has appointed Rhode Island artist, educator and community-focused researcher Jeffrey Yoo Warren as 2023 Innovator in Residence. With his project, Seeing Lost Enclaves: Relational Reconstructions of Erased Historic Neighborhoods of Color, Yoo Warren will use photographs, maps, film and audio recordings from Library collections to build an immersive digital 3D model…
Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia photographer, is believed to have taken the world’s first self-portrait — the first selfie — in 1839. The Library, which already had the world’s large collection of his work, in December acquired a donation from Cornelius’ great-great-grand-daughter, Sarah Bodine, of more of his photographic materials. Preservationists are now at work on…
By Audrey Altman, March 30, 2022. Curatorial work with large archival collections is challenging. In order to find artifacts related to a chosen topic, curators have to sift through thousands – sometimes millions – of materials and determine which are truly relevant. Machine learning can help streamline curatorial workflows by analyzing complex datasets and making…
Did you know that most links on the web become non-resolvable after 100 days and that about 70% of news-related links disappear within a day? Even if this alarmingly short lifespan is news to you, we bet you’ve probably encountered a 404 error before (if not multiple times), meaning that the content you were trying…