Bat Study, Panama, STRI, 1989, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-009, Image no. 91-10763.

Link Love: 11/01/2019

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
November 1, 2019, by Deborah Shapiro

What's your format? The National Archives has matched up each astrological sign to an archival genre. [via National Archives] 

If you're sad Halloween is over, read about a spooky chair with all the ingredients of a haunting. [via Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

Lincoln Chair at the Cooper Union Museum

A shipwrecked “ghost fleet” in the Chesapeake Bay has become a kind of manmade coral reef. [via WAMU]

The New York Times pays homage to the animals that suck your blood. [via New York Times]

Bat Study, Panama, STRI, 1989, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 11-009 [91-10763].

In a very spooky improvement, hundreds of thousands of book citations on Wikipedia will now link directly to e-book pages! [via infoDOCKET]

Ornithologist Kaeli Swift shares crow facts, including the intriguing discovery that they are not scared of Dick Cheney. [via NPR]

Vote for the spookiest collections item at the American Antiquarian Society! [via AAS]

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