Here are some recent videos that have been brought to my attention – they may be relevant to your interests!
Atelier: Ex Libris
“As a bookbinder and manuscript restorer specializing in medieval bindings it is a joy for me, now and then, to make small versions of historical bindings for myself or for treasured friends, as in [...]
I heard an interesting story on NPR about a service called reCAPTCHA that has harnessed the power of the masses (and the internet) to improve the OCR output for digitized books available on the Internet Archive as well as old issues of the New York Times.
From the reCAPTCHA website:
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books [...]
At last! Videos of this year’s ALA Book Cart Drill Team Championships are online! This was one of the not-to-be-missed events of ALA…lucky me, I snagged a seat in the 2nd row and what a ride it was!
In first place were the “Well Stacked Sci-brarians” from the Santa Monica Public Library.
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During my recent trip to California for the ALA 2008 conference, I visited several of the museums in San Diego’s Balboa Park. One of my favorite paintings I saw that day was at the Timken Museum of Art – it was a work by John Frederick Peto, an American tromp l’oeil painter. Titled [...]
[Photo by Flickr user wallyg used in accordance with a Creative Commons license]
I had the opportunity to sit in on a couple of preservation discussion groups at this year’s annual ALA conference. One of them was the “Preservation Instruction, Education and Outreach Discussion Group (PIEDOG)”, which was moderated by PIEDOG chair, Adrienne Bell. [...]
Passive Aggressive Notes
Originally uploaded by Miss Martini
A library-themed gem from Passive Aggressive Notes.
Can finals be over yet?
Check out Jeff Peachey’s fledgling blog (at the urging of Brenna Campbell).
If you haven’t already, go read Beth Heller’s latest blog entry. A short snippet to get the gist:
My question to you: how do you describe your profession to a stranger, when you have about 5 seconds to get it across? Do you say “I’m a conservator”? The response to that, it seems, is “…like you save [...]
From the Beeb:
A “spooky” image of a priest executed for treason over the Gunpowder Plot has appeared on a 17th century book thought to be bound in his skin, it is claimed.
