Link Love: 2/10/2012
- The Smithsonian is on Pinterest (can you tell I’m excited)! In honor of Valentine’s Day, check out their board, the “Art of Love”—love-struck objects, artifacts and artwork from the Smithsonian museums.
- Like an artist’s palette—The Field Book Project blog explores the sketchbook of a scientist who walked through the markets of Hawaii to take “color notes” on the fish sold there.
- Wow. A Brown University student uncovers the lost audiotape of an address Malcolm X made in 1961 in Providence.
- The five most anticipated Smithsonian exhibits of 2012.
- The Library of Congress' Digital Preservation blog follows up on our earlier blog post about designing preservable websites with a great list of best practices for website design [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, SIA].
- The opening remarks given by David S. Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States, at last week’s web chat about the “Yes We Scan” petition for a national effort to digitize federal records. A full Q&A from the chat will follow soon.
- Hey, they must love their local library . . . hangingtogether.org shares this video via their colleagues at the University of Washington Libraries. Recently, a local Seattle band, Pickwick, walked into the main library reading room and did an a cappella version of one of their songs:
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