Some photos of the Dana wing as the crew prepares it to come down.
Look what’s coming out of the Dana wing!
The pile of trash on the back patio of the Library.
The periodicals room was emptied in the last week of September.
The bathroom in the periodicals room under destruction.
The tall windows on the back of the main reading room have been boarded to protect them while the Dana wing is demolished.
The door to Dana boarded up and bid good-bye with a Post-It note. Bye-bye!
MMC has the best view of the new west wing of the library as it takes shape –
“And This Is How You Don’t Follow Up To A Job Interview . . . I present to you an entry-level applicant’s guide to ensuring you never get a job.”
http://groupthink.jezebel.com/and-this-is-how-you-don-t-follow-up-to-a-second-intervi-1032671488
“Join us as a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer to unlock stories by transcribing our collections. With your help, we can make the volumes of digitized Smithsonian Institution materials easier to use.”
“Michel Aaij’s Wikipedia resume is impressive – more than 60,000 edits, a couple of Good Articles, a Featured List, almost 150 Did You Knows. But there’s one credit he’s most proud of: tenure.
For North American professors, tenure is one of the pinnacles of success in academia. Junior professors spend years building a portfolio that demonstrates teaching, research, and service to the discipline, then face a committee who evaluates the portfolio and determines whether to give the professor a lifetime position at that university or ask the professor to leave.”
Read more here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/06/tenure-awarded-based-in-part-on-wikipedia-contributions/
“Last year, the New York Public Library turned old stereoscopic photographs into internet-friendly GIFs with an addictive online tool called the Stereograminator. Now a Toronto-based photography studio and graphic design shop has done the same with a series of found images of World War I, resulting in vivid 3-D images that bring the brutality of the Great War to life.”
See images and get more detail:
http://hyperallergic.com/74765/found-stereoscopic-photos-make-world-war-i-come-alive/
“Dreamer, optimist and visionary, Charles Dellschau (1830-1923) is one of the earliest documented self taught artists known in America. What began as an illustrated manuscript recounting his experiences in the California Gold Rush became an obsessive project resulting in twelve large, hand-bound books with more than 2500 drawings related to airships and the development of flight.”
Striking images from an art book created by Charles August Albert Dellschau at the turn of the century:
http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/dreams-of-the-sonora-aero-club/37754/
Unique mending job on a 14th century manuscript gets conserved:
http://www.ub.uu.se/en/Just-now/Projects/Completed-projects/A-medieval-book-mended-with-silk-thread/
“Tell No One produced this film for the London National Gallery as part of a celebration of Titian’s works. It plays like a brief, fantastical horror film, with the transgressing Speleers helpless to avoid his fate after seeing Friel in the bath.”
http://io9.com/a-haunting-wordless-retelling-of-the-myth-of-artemis-a-551284261
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