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Feedback and/or constructive criticism to improve communication among student and young professional ARLIS/NA members.
Posted by Bryan Loar on September 11, 2007
Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it’s abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner. For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is nothing more magical than a beautiful old library.
To read more & see the collection of images, go to http://www.curiousexpeditions.org/2007/09/a_librophiliacs_love_letter_1.html
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Posted by Bryan Loar on September 6, 2007
Architectural Record
Studio Daniel Libeskind and Davis Partnership Architects wrap a parking garage with apartments and breathe life into a cultural district.
By Beth Broome
First there was the museum gift shop, then the café. Soon, signature museum architecture became a must-have. The commodification of the institution seemed complete. But museums have taken the phenomenon a step further with apartment towers, such as Studio Daniel Libeskind and local architect Davis Partnership Architects’ Museum Residences, which sits directly across a small plaza from the Denver Art Museum’s new Frederic C. Hamilton Building. These condominiums offer the ultimate amenity: an opportunity to bring—almost literally—the museum right into your home.
For more, go to http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/bts/archives/multifamhousing/07_museumres/default.asp
(might be something of interest to check out in Denver – BL)
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Posted by Carter on August 9, 2007
The 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.
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Posted by Carter on July 19, 2007
Check out Nina Simon’s post, Jumping Into Art in Second Life, at Museum 2.0. The following statement sums up her point:
So much energy is put into recreating physical spaces and their real-world limitations rather than experimenting with ways that virtual worlds create opportunity to do things that are impossible in real museums. These opportunities can be social–engaging with museum content with other visitors at their computers all over the world–as well as experiential–allowing visitors to jump into, smash, and manipulate content in ways that physics and conservators forbid in real space.
She then outlines two examples of these opportunities – an experiential recreation of Van Gogh’s Starry Night and social art gallery openings.
These are initiatives that information professionals (especially art librarians!) should be involved with!
via Steven M. Cohen’s Library Stuff
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Posted by mmacken on November 16, 2006
“MapLib.net turns any image you uploaded as large as 6000*6000 into a custom Google Map in a really simple way. You can maintain markers for it, as well as embed it in your own web pages or blog.”
http://www.maplib.net/maps.php (Click on the Musee des Beaux Arts)
[This is another good reason to get a blog hosted on our own server--we can't embed anything in this blog!]
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Posted by mmacken on September 22, 2006
You can suggest categories here by leaving a comment, or post them to the blog (category “Suggestions for Categories”).
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Posted by mmacken on September 19, 2006
If you have links to share, or want to see your site on the Resources page, post it to the blog, add a comment here, or, if you’ve got a bunch, email them to the blog administrator.
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Posted by mmacken on September 6, 2006
Please post your suggestions for the improvement of this blog and tag them with the category “Suggestions for Improving this Blog.”
If you have a more private concern, please email the blog administrator.
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