From IMLS (Institute For Museum and Library Services): Each year, the Institute of Museum and Library Services presents select museums and libraries with the nation’s highest honor, the Nationa...
The following Kickstarter campaign is the first in a series of crowdfunding campaigns from the Smithsonian Institution. From the Kickstarter Blog: The Smithsonian’s first project, from the Nati...
From the Institute for Museum and Library Services: The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced the recipients of the 2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The Nati...
New from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Salzburg Global Seminar. From Summary Announcement: The report details the events of the October, 2011 convening of fifty-eight libra...
From the Wikimedia Blog Post: The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons. The Walters’ collection includ...
https://www.infodocket.com/2012/05/08/art-walters-museum-uploads-19000-photos-to-wikimedia-commons/
From the El Paso Times What’s new is the Algur H. Meadows Library — named after the late Dallas art collector and entrepreneur — is now open to the public with set hours. Previously, it was...
https://www.infodocket.com/2012/05/08/public-art-library-opens-inside-el-paso-art-museum/
From the Strategic Content Alliance Blog: Since 2007, Ithaka S+R and the Strategic Content Alliance have led the way in examining ways that the academic and cultural heritage sectors are defining...
https://www.infodocket.com/2012/05/01/video-lecture-series-sustaining-digital-resources/
Part Three and the Executive Summary were released today by OCLC Research. Links to Part One and Part Two of the series are available at the bottom of this post. Part Three Social Metadata for L...
Title ‘As We May Digitize’ — Institutions and Documents Reconfigured Authors Mats Dahlström Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden Joacim Hansson D...
From a CT News Release: The Collections Trust has secured major European Commission investment in projects worth a total of €8m to help museums, archives and libraries share their collections o...