Link Love: 10/5/2012

by Mitch Toda on October 5, 2012

This week Brown University Library announced the launching of curio a new weekly blog, focusing on imaging rare, unusual, and intriguing objects. [via InfoDocket]
In 1947, Polaroid disrupted the world of photography with its now iconic invention. Instant: The Story of Polaroid is an upcoming book tracing the rise and fall of Polaroid. [via core77]
Our former intern and volunteer, Aly DesRochers, writes about the Greenwich Village Digital Archive and includes information on a useful interactive mapping platform. [via Courtney Esposito, SIA]
Sadly, The Art of Video Games is no longer on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, but fortunately video games can be found in the collections of the Library of Congress. [via The Signal; Digital Preservation, LOC]
Talk about service. North Carolina State University's James B. Hunt Jr. Library will be opening in a few months and will boast among other things the bookBot, a robotic automated delivery system that will deliver a book requested via the online catalog within 5 minutes of being requested. [via InfoDocket]
Getting to the heart of a website - Crawling websites at the Library of Congress. [via The Signal; Digital Preservation, LOC]
Avoiding conflicts of interest - The relationship between NARA and Wikipedia. [via NARAtions]
With the election season in full swing, take a look back at past campaign commerials at: The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commericals 1952-2012, from the Museum of the Moving Image. [via InfoDocket]

Tags: Web/Tech, Politics/Government, Photo History, Digitization, Link Love

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Great link list. Love how "crawling websites" and bookBot" gives rise to imagery. I'm wondering if there's a site tracking such terminology.

Maureen October 5, 2012 at 10:18 am

Off hand I don't know of any specific sites tracking such terminology, but I do like Wired Magazine's Jargon Watch which lists and defines some of the current jargon floating around.

Mitch Toda October 5, 2012 at 2:55 pm

I love the Polaroid story. My first camera was a Polaroid and it is what turned me on to photography. Simply iconic.

Jon Montis January 25, 2013 at 4:55 pm

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