Archive for the 'infostudies' Category

Shannon pointed us to the New York Public Library Digital Galleries this afternoon, and I’ve been geeking out hard core on it so far.  &, since I’m in Library School, and doing research on digital libraries, it means that I’m not just playing around and wasting time.  Here’s the stuff I’ve liked most so far:

• The Trouvelot astronomical drawings (in Pictures of Science: 700 years of Scientific & Medical Illustration)
• "Classic 6:" New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s
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  Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1856-1930
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  Ocean Flowers: Anna Atkins’s Cyanotypes of British Algae

I totally need to get figure out a research project for this.