"TREASURES OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE"

This fascinating YouTube video provides a glimpse into some of the treasures in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. It is one of the many specialized collections within the New York Public Library system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0mMabhS5vw

PHOTOS FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ON FLICKR

The first part of this posting and the information it contains has been taken from Time Out New York Issue 693 : Jan 8–14, 2009
(http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/tv-dvd/70271/new-york-public-librarys-flickr-stream.)

"The Commons project is Flickr’s ongoing attempt to make publicly held photos more accessible...So far, it’s a big success: The Library of Congress has posted nearly 5,000 photos, and more and more cultural heritage institutions have been joining in. Last month, the New York Public Library got in on the action, posting around 1,300 of its photos." (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/)

"The 16 sets of photos include images of early modern dance, Egypt, Japan in the late 19th century, cinema from 1912–14 and cyanotypes of British algae, among others...but my favorites are the pictures of New York. The shots from Ellis Island are fascinating but not sentimental. Berenice Abbott’s famous 'Changing New York' series perpetually absorbs new meaning. And the library’s documentation of its own history, in a set called 'NYPL: Work with Schools,' shows that even in 1910 there were kids...climbing all over each other to get to more books."
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You will also be interested to learn about the NYPL Digital Gallery:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/
"NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 640,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs."

IM AND REFERENCE

You can now text the Reference department by sending a message to 265010. (Please note that this might result in the charge for a standard message text from your wireless service provider, depending on your plan.) Your message will be picked up by our chat reference service and the librarian on duty will respond.

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND AMAZON

Valentine’s Day, birthdays, anniversaries – the shopping season is never over! And you never need a special occasion to shop for books. Online shopping puts you just a click away from some great gift ideas for both yourself and others. As you shop in 2009, make sure that your dollars are supporting your library. When you shop at our listed online retailers, the University Library gets money; it’s just that simple.

So, please keep our program in mind when you shop online. As a reminder, for the library to receive credit for your purchases, you must click on a store’s link from this page:

http://library.samford.edu/about/support.html

You can also get to this page from the library’s home page, click “About SU Library,” then choose “Support SU Library.”

In case you haven’t visited the page recently, there are now eight online bookstores in the program:

Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books A Million
AbeBooks
Alibris
Bibles.com
Family Christian Stores
Simply Audiobooks

CREATIVE COMMONS

Ever wonder if it’s okay to use a photograph, article, etc. in your class, presentation, project, or web site? When copyright has you scared or puzzled, look to Creative Commons to find new works that are free for certain uses. The site is easy to search, and will often provide the materials you need or want without the associated fear of copyright violations. As is stated on the web site, Creative Commons uses “private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare ‘some rights reserved’.” To explore the works that are waiting to be used freely, search Creative Commons licensed works at http://search.creativecommons.org/ .

I found this photo of Lenin in mittens:

By: Johann C. Rocholl
http://flickr.com/photos/jcrocholl/306263174/sizes/l/#cc_license

This author used a CC license that asks users to attribute the work to him.

Thanks to Lori Northrup for this posting.

PHOTOGRAPHIC WITNESS TO DARFUR

Please visit the University Library to view the exhibit "Photographic Witness to Darfur," December 1-20, 2008. The exhibit was compiled by The Darfur Association and is sponsored by Project Africa Now atSamford University:

http://library.samford.edu/about/exhibits.html