Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | January 19, 2008
An amazing thing has just happened in the hallowed halls of the Library of Congress. I’ve always known librarians were a lot cooler than the stereotypes. LOC has just joined with the very Web 2.0 space called Flickr to post over 3,000 photos for folks to view and enjoy. Not only that, but if you [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | January 17, 2008
Since I began working on another book, this blog has suffered. I do apologize for that, but deadlines now control my life! Fortunately, I’ve also discovered some great primary source collections in my research for the book. I’ve learned that the National Endowment for the Humanities has supported a number of digitization initiatives that are [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | January 1, 2008
Today’s New York Times had an article by Roberta Hershenson about some extraordinary family photograph albums discovered in 2004 by the 21-year-old great great grandson of the photographer. In fact, when Harry Fowler Woods took the nearly 1,000 photographs in 1905, he was part of an important but underreported diplomatic tour to Hawaii, The Philippines, [...]