At the Airport – Libraries and Museums in Unexpected Places
Posted: August 9, 2007 Filed under: Alternative Careers, Libraries: Museum Libraries, Museum Librarianship, Museums, [ Suggestions for Improving this Blog ] Comments OffThe San Francisco airport is home to the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library & Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum. The museum and library are “dedicated to commercial aviation and San Francisco International Airport’s role as the ‘Gateway to the Pacific.’”
Over 6,000 books and periodicals have already been catalogued in the library. The museum collections include over 3,000 photographs and documents, and more than 5,400 artifacts have been accessioned. Collection objects are being professionally conserved and researched and will be available for study by digital imaging with on site and on-line access. Collections will also be utilized for Airport exhibitions programming. This facility, with its focus on commercial aviation and emphasis on the Pacific, will provide a unique repository and study center for scholars, the aviation community, and the traveling public.
More info here.
LOC Preservation – 21st Century-Style
Posted: August 9, 2007 Filed under: Archival Management, Images, News, SecondLife Comments OffGamasutra reports that the Library of Congress is funding an initiative – Preserving Creative America – to preserve creative media, including movies, digital photography, and video games.
The blog further states
According to a statement announcing the program, many of the included projects will involve “developing standardized approaches to content formats and metadata (the information that makes electronic content discoverable by search engines), which are expected to increase greatly the chances that the digital content of today will survive to become America’s cultural patrimony tomorrow.”
Perhaps of most interest to ArLiSNAPers is the portion of the program called Preserving Virtual Worlds. This partnership between University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland’s Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life will focus on preservation standards and methods for virtual worlds, digital games, and electronic literature.
Official LOC press release is here.
Also note that ARTstor is slso one of the focus areas for the Preserving Creative America funding. This most recent initiative is to encourage photographers to submit archive-ready images to digital repositories. Partners on this project include Art on File, Artesia, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Northwestern University.
via Library Stuff
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