• What's Up with Seed Catalogs in BHL?

    March 30, 2015

    Ed. Note: This blog was originally posted on the Biodiversity Heritage Library blog. To view the original post, click here.  Cole's Garden Annual. 1892. From the BHL Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection.

  • Museums and Gardens Across the Country Join the Let’s Move! Initiative

    March 24, 2015

    Ed. Note: This blog was originally posted on the Let's Move! blog.

  • Training our Focus

    March 18, 2015

    By Maura Marx Acting Director, IMLS IMLS takes a keen interest in the many ways museums and libraries adapt to serve the changing needs of their communities. In the same way, we at IMLS need to recognize the shifting realities of our own museum and library stakeholders. Our IMLS Focus initiative, begun last year with a series of three convenings, successfully helped us to garner public… Read more

  • Hearing History

    March 18, 2015

    By Carlene Stephens Curator, Division of Work and Industry Smithsonian National Museum of American History We’ve got the routine down pat now. My colleague Shari Stout lines up the fragile recording on the stage of the instrument and then steps back. The scan of the battered 130-year-old sound recording begins, as does our wait for a high-resolution image of the disc’s surface.

  • Digging Up an Appetite for Health at The New York Botanical Garden

    March 12, 2015

    By Annie Novak, Manager of The Edible Academy Elizabeth Peterson-Minor, Associate Director of Foundation Relations The New York Botanical Garden The cold and snow could not stop the nation’s cultural institutions from celebrating the fifth anniversary of Let’s Move! this February. Founded by First Lady Michelle Obama, this national initiative gets children moving and eating healthy foods.

  • Taking Note: More Resources for Arts Data-Miners

    March 11, 2015

    Ed. Note: This blog was originally posted on the National Endowment for the Arts' Art Works blog. To view the original post, click here.  By Sunil Iyengar NEA Director of Research & Analysis

  • Continuing the Library and Museum Open Data Conversation

    March 10, 2015

    By Maria Raviele, PhD, Evaluation Officer Justin Grimes, Statistician Trevor Owens, Senior Library Program Officer Institute of Museum and Library Services As part of the launch of data.imls.gov, the agency’s new open data catalog, a cohort of about 30 data wonks, librarians, curators, researchers, developers, and representatives from a wide range of organizations including Sunlight Foundation,… Read more

  • Discovery à la Mode

    March 9, 2015

    By Margaretta S Frederick Chief Curator, and Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection Delaware Art Museum In 2012, the Delaware Art Museum began the arduous task (for a mid-sized museum) of placing our collection records online in a publically searchable database.

  • Fitting the Pieces Together: Progress On Linked Data For Libraries

    March 4, 2015

    By Trevor Owens Senior Library Program Officer, IMLS Following on the Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums summit in 2011, interest in this topic has continued to grow among the digital cultural heritage professionals. For those unfamiliar, term “linked open data” can sound like a lot of different things.

  • #NetGain: The Role of Libraries on the Web as a Public Good

    March 2, 2015

    By Trevor Owens Senior Library Program Officer, IMLS I was thrilled to be able to represent the IMLS at NetGain: The Digital Revolution Meets the Common Good hosted at the Ford Foundation in New York. The event served to kick off the NetGain Challenge, a collaboration between the Knight, MacArthur, Open Society, Mozilla, and Ford Foundations to support work that ensures the Web serves a broad… Read more