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Thick Description: Fingerprints, Sonnets, and Aboutness in Special Collections

May 17, 2012 - by Jennifer Schaffner

Discoverability of special collections has long been a top concern of the OCLC Research Library Partnership.  What works? Break out of the OPAC? Beyond MARC? End run around EAD? Constance …

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Special delivery

May 18, 2011 - by Jennifer Schaffner

Deliver a lot. Deliver a little. It’s all about delivery. We’ve been doing a lot of work around here on strategies to make it easy for users to get their …

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Reimagining the Archive

November 29, 2010 - by Jackie Dooley - 1 Comment

A couple of weeks ago the UCLA Film & Television Archive hosted “Reimagining the Archive,” a three-day conference that brought together archivists, scholars, artists, creators of digital humanities projects, and …

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John R. Stokes, Imaging Innovator

July 27, 2009September 3, 2020 - by Ricky Erway - 2 Comments.

John R. Stokes passed away this weekend. This caused me to reflect on both his career and mine. When I started at the Library of Congress in 1985, I was …

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“Things don’t really get moving until a page is turned.”

February 10, 2009 - by Jennifer Schaffner

I’ve slipped the draft of my survey of user studies into a drawer, walked away from my desk, and crossed the Bay to CODEX, a veritable orgy of international arts …

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The People and the Commons

January 22, 2009 - by Günter Waibel - 3 Comments.

The Flickr Commons is a remarkable project in many ways, and we’ve certainly followed its birth and progress closely on hangingtogether (see here, here, here, here and here.) Just in …

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Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Rocks My World

December 3, 2008October 12, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

The National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa in Maori and an RLG Partner) has obviously been busy. Last week they joined the Flickr Commons, and they …

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LIFE photography reborn on Google

November 20, 2008 - by Günter Waibel

Google is digitizing 10 Million photographs from the LIFE photo archive. 2 Million are already available, and the complete set will be accessible from Google Image Search as well as …

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People Power and Photographs

November 11, 2008September 18, 2020 - by John MacColl

Today is Armistice Day, and the 90th anniversary of the end of the ‘War to end all Wars’. It is not surprising any longer that commemoration by the public of …

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LC-Flickr: updating the catalog

October 22, 2008 - by Günter Waibel - 2 Comments.

In the context of John MacColl’s guest blog on Karen Calhoun’s Metalogue, I was reminded of the stats from the LC-Flickr project pertaining to changes LC made in their own …

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