Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | August 30, 2009
Last Sunday’s (August 23) New York Times had a fun article by Bill Marsh called “Faked Photographs: Look, and Then Look Again.” The article made me wonder just how much editing makes a primary source photograph no longer a true primary source. Most of the photographs in the online slide show that accompanied the article [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | August 16, 2009
Today’s New York Times published an article by Rachel L. Swarns entitled “Madison and the White House, Through the Memoir of a Slave.” As a 10-year-old slave, Paul Jennings first set foot in the White House of President James Madison. “…over the course of his long life, Mr. Jennings witnessed, and perhaps participated in, the [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | August 1, 2009
Jim Duncan, Director of the Networking & Resource Sharing Unit of the Colorado State Library, has written a great article about the progress and plans of Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection. Like digitization projects everywhere, Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection (CHNC) is moving and changing with the times. Every such project has to look at the sustainability [...]