- Back in the news in a big way - Andy Warhol digitally created art comes back to life, resurrected from floppy disks from 1985. [via Core77]
- Meet the man who invented the cell phone - Martin Cooper. [via O Say Can You See?, NMAH]
- The American Museum of Natural History has made available some 7,000 archival photographs, rare book illustrations, drawings, notes, letters, and Museum memorabilia in the new online database Digital Special Collections [via AMNH blog]
- As Preservation Week comes to an end the Smithsonian Institution Libraries offers some advice on how to best maintain your paper based collections. [via Unbound, SIL]
- Perhaps the end of an era - This may be the last year that the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival will be held on the National Mall after new rules and regulations were adopted by the National Park Service. [via Impact, The Huffington Post]
- Now open - The British Library's new $55 million Newspaper Reading Room. [via InfoDocket]
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