Link Love: 1/28/2011
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Here’s something to stress out electronic archivists. An epic infographic on the staggering size of the internet in 2010 [via Mashable]. - XRF Spectoro-what?? Check out a Star Trek-like analysis of an ancient Egyptian scroll over on the Brooklyn Museum’s blog.
- Whoa! Can you imagine? The sci-fi series Fringe recreates the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in a Vancouver high school cafeteria [via @susangittins].
- Gigs I would like: artists peruse the National Museum of the American Indian’s collections for inspiration.
- Early 20th century journeys in Kaifeng, China: travel journals from the Freer|Sackler Archives.
- Soooooo, you’ve probably heard already, but here it goes: The National Archives discovers an altered date on an important Lincoln document.
- Advice in a series of blog posts from Thomas Garnett, Director of the Smithsonian’s Biodiversity Heritage Library, about what to do with your library degree in a challenging economy.
- And related: So, you want to be a librarian?, a la 1947:
Vocational Guidance Films, Inc., "Your Life Work Series: The Librarian," 1947.
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XRF Spectoro-what?? It's called X-Ray Fluorescence and the handheld models of this type of material analyzer look a lot like Star Trek phasers. XRF analysis was also used to determine if some shavings actually came from the reboring of the "Old Seccession" Civil War cannon. The work was done by PBS' "History Detectives."
Hi Ray-
Thanks for the head's up! I'm assuming you're talking about this episode of History Detectives:
http://www-tc.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/static/media/transcripts/2011-06-22/901_cannonshavings.pdf
Thanks for sharing!
Catherine
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