Link Love: 5/21/2010

• Cool new Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery slideshow of color lantern slides taken by an American Colonel on his travels through China in the 1930s.
• What happens when a university library attempts to dispose of all books that haven’t been checked out for ten years or longer.
• On the other end of the spectrum, what happens to digitized books? Google Books drama continues, with the current copyright violation lawsuit against them to be ruled upon soon.
• An archive of photos too emotionally difficult to keep . . . Artist Jason Lazarus is creating a repository of unwanted images that the public sends him “so that they may exist without being destroyed.”
• One Hour Photo—an ephemeral exhibition of photos projected for one hour which will never be seen again afterwards. [via Marvin Heiferman, SPI]
• The Smithsonian’s efforts to help preserve and conserve arts in Haiti.
• Bad news for sea monster researchers: while the British Royal Navy does in fact hold many records on sea monsters, there is unfortunately no central archive.
• How important is digital ephemera?: “scholars have uses for archives that archivists cannot anticipate.”
• Artist Christopher Baker’s live Twitter visualization and archive, Murmur Study. [via Effie Kapsalis, SPI]