Link Love: 1/11/2013
- President Barack Obama will be sworn-in for his second term in office on January 21, 2013. Here is a look back at what 2012 looked like for President Obama as told through the photographs of Pete Souza, the official White House photographer. [via PetaPixel]
- This week the Library of Congress announced its progress in processing and making available the Twitter archive. [via InfoDocket]
- A shift in trend, the focus on the actual recording of an oral history as opposed to its transcript. Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries, talks about this and the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Not a Google search away, the telling of the hunt for the Congressional pay records of Abraham Lincoln. [via Prologue: PIeces of History, NARA]
- Perceptions of and designs for people with disabilities have changed over time, Andrew Marcum, a dissertation research fellow at the National Museum of American History, takes some time to answer questions about the history of disability. [via O say can you see?, NMAH]
- Preservation and decay . . . At the George Eastman House, nanotechnology is being used to preserve daguerreotypes and also the beauty of decaying daguerreotypes. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA and PetaPixel]
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