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Category Archives: Libraries & Archives
Wilbour: One Man’s Obsession with Egypt
It’s a well known fact that the Brooklyn Museum has a great Egyptian collection but did you know that we have one of the best libraries devoted to the study of Ancient Egypt that is open to the public? We … Continue reading
Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology: Discoveries in the Wilbour Library
My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In the Library’s Special Collections … Continue reading
Rare Tissot resources on display in the Libraries and Archives
The Tissot exhibition recently opened to the public. On your visit to see the exhibition, don’t forget to stop by the Libraries and Archives display cases to view additional Tissot materials from our Special Collections and Archives. On display are … Continue reading
Recent Archival Accessions
New York City is getting ready once again for the annual 5 Dutch Days event! This five-day celebration encompasses the five boroughs of New York City, and celebrates the continuous influence of Dutch arts and culture in NYC. Numerous institutions … Continue reading
Common Ground 2009: A Flickr Meetup with NYPL and the Brooklyn Museum
If you are a fan of the The Commons on Flickr and live in the NYC area, come to our Common Ground meetup this weekend to celebrate—we’ve got tons and tons of neato stuff to give away! The folks from … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Lab, Event, Libraries & Archives, Technology
Tagged commonground, flickr, flickrcommons, meetup
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1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration Illuminations
One hundred years ago the Brooklyn Museum participated in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, a city-wide event organized by New York State. The 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration honored two significant historical moments—the centennial of Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat; and the 300th anniversary … Continue reading
Sufi-Inspired Artist Books
One of the great feelings I experience at the Brooklyn Museum is when I see a true connection between the Library and art collections here. This connection was felt recently at a public program showcasing the work of the widely-admired … Continue reading
The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC): Towards Radical Collaboration
Librarians are natural collaborators—we share materials through interlibrary loan, data through cataloging cooperatives, and our subject and technical expertise on numerous listservs and professional committees—but moving beyond these traditional modes of collaboration is challenging. Collaboration is hard because it often … Continue reading
Walt Whitman and the Arts in Brooklyn: A Commemoration in the Brooklyn Museum Library
We are very proud of the fact that Walt Whitman not only lived and worked in Brooklyn but that he had a direct connection to this institution in its early days as a library. This past Saturday we had a … Continue reading
The world through Goodyear’s eyes: photographs from the 1890’s to 1923 from the Brooklyn Museum Archives
Seeing the response to historic photographs that we have posted on Flickr Commons begs a look back on why we have these images and who created them. Being an art museum library and archives our mission is to collect and … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries & Archives
Tagged architecture, collection, egypt, flickr, flickrcommons, goodyear, history, italy, wilbour
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Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!
Today we’re launching the next installment in the Brooklyn Museum Collection on the Web—more than 4,000 images from the Libraries and Archives will join the 5700+ works of art and the nearly 10,000 views of past exhibitions that you’ve already … Continue reading
Posted in American Art, Digital Lab, Libraries & Archives, Technology
Tagged collection, DAMS, imaging, website
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Flickr Commons: Coping with a Small Staff and Community Ideals
One of the interesting things about The Commons is anyone can do it, which is pretty cool. Often, I think, larger institutions have an advantage over the smaller ones in that they get to put personnel behind coding projects to … Continue reading
Flickr Commons: A Delicate Balance
This is part two in what I think will eventually be a three part series (sorry, Tyler, I realize you are the king of the three part-er, but this requires some room). In the last post on the subject, I … Continue reading
Portrait of a Librarian
If you’re one of the few people who still read, you might occasionally reach for a bookmark. The Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design has issued a set of bookmarks featuring librarians. Portraits on the … Continue reading
Artists’ Books Conference and the Brooklyn Museum
This week there is a contemporary artists’ book conference being held in collaboration with Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair. The conference is being co-organized by representatives from the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA and the New York Public Library as well … Continue reading
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