- Some stunning images taken by a young Stanley Kubrick from the Museum of the City of New York. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
- The Archives talks about weeding collections, here is what weeding is like in a library setting. [via Unbound, Smithsonian Libraries]
- Simply awesome . . . The National Portrait Gallery has commissioned a portrait made out of sand and soil that will stretch over six acres on the National Mall by Cuban American urban artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada. [via ABC 7, WJLA]
- This past week the National Museum of American History added hundreds of photographs, papers and historical objects documenting the history of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. [via Huffington Post, Gay Voices]
- The Folger Shakespeare Library released almost 80,000 images into the public domain last week. [via The Public Domain Review]
- Emulation is one possible method of making old software available to researchers and is currently being explored at Yale University Library. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- NASA needs your help to identify some 1.8 million images in its archives. [via PetaPixel]
- For his latest series of 3D animations, Australian artist Andy Thomas, used archival bird recordings from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision to create digital sound sculptures that animate in different ways in reaction to the songs of each bird. [via Colossal]
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