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Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, an intern with the Library of Congress. My first experience working in a cultural heritage institution was as a teen docent at the El Paso Museum of Art in the mid-1990s. It is difficult to find details about the teen program now but it was open to high …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Viewshare
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, an intern with the Library of Congress. As a first year graduate student at the University of Maryland’s School of Information, I, like many other library students across the country, enrolled in a required course that focused on the organization of information. I often referred to the …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure, Viewshare
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, an intern with the Library of Congress. Meghan Frazer is the Digital Resources Curator for the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University. She previously worked as a digital resources librarian at Kenyon College where she was the first recipient of the Rick Peterson Fellowship. …
Posted in: Viewshare
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, an intern with the Library of Congress. In addition to the audio, physical, and visual media that students will encounter as they head back to school this fall, some students will use Viewshare* for the first time to explore a variety of new subjects. The Swag Diplomacy: …
Posted in: Viewshare
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, a summer intern with the Library of Congress. If you want Camille to help you out with creating a Viewshare, let us know in the comments. In early July I had the opportunity to work with reference librarian, Erika Spencer, who works in the European Division at …
Posted in: Viewshare
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, a summer intern with the Library of Congress. Greetings! I am a graduate student at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies where I am pursuing a master’s degree in Library Science with a concentration in Information and Diverse populations. I hold an undergraduate degree in …
Posted in: Viewshare
Posted by: Abbey Potter
If you are a frequent visitor to digitalpreservation.gov you may have come across our Collections section. In it we list the digital collections that have been selected for preservation by our NDIIPP partners. We are using Viewshare to make the list more interactive and to help us learn more about this collection of collections. We’ve just …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure, Viewshare
Posted by: Trevor Owens
In working on the Viewshare project, our free and open tool for creating interfaces for digital cultural heritage collections, I am always excited to see all the interesting views that users are creating. A few weeks ago, Jennifer Brancato digital archivist at East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, created a fascinating view …
Posted in: Viewshare
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, a Digital Archivist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. Last week we quietly launched several significant improvements to Viewshare, our free and open platform for cultural heritage organizations to create interfaces to digital collections. There are a ton of major and small additions …
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