Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951 (missouriartists.org) is a collaborative initiative that rethinks the artist biographical dictionary for the digital age. Designed for all to discover, and make connections between, artists and specialized art research collections, this session will explore next steps for this grant funded project.

Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA), a project managed by the Internet Archive and NYARC, with participation from dozens of art and museum libraries in the US and Canada, enables members to collectively capture, preserve, and provide access to at-risk web-based art materials. While the web has solidified as a medium for art materials over the last…[Read more]

Review: In the spring of 2020, when many felt untethered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Crafting Communities emerged to address this alienation by “enabling hands-on learning in a hands-off context” within the field of Victorian material culture, as the site notes. From a pilot program of two online events, the project has expanded to comprise fur…[Read more]

Review: CollectionBuilder offers open source templates enabling GLAM (gallery, library, archive and museum) institutions to create digital collections and exhibits without proprietary tools. This project seeks to simplify designing infrastructures and interfaces for sustainable, static sites in alignment with collections as data principles. While…[Read more]

Review: Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, a library of 170 titles published by Bloomsbury Publishing, aims to provide students in the visual arts with practically minded resources for inspiration, technical advice, and career development. The digital resource library is organized according to major visual arts disciplines: fashion and textiles,…[Read more]

Review: Visualizing the Virus is a cross between an online repository of original content and bibliography of existing resources. The purpose of the international and interdisciplinary project is to showcase both how the COVID-19 pandemic has been visualized and the inequalities it has revealed. The project was founded and is led by Dr Sria…[Read more]

Review: Libraries are all about accessibility. One may have the most beautiful library in the world and yet, if no one knows about it, it is only available to those who can physically be in the space and experience the tomes tactilely. We now live in the exciting time of digital resources which has made a significant difference to scholarship, has…[Read more]

Without a formal center for teaching and learning, both faculty and librarians struggled to develop cohesive curricula together and embed library resources into classroom coursework. This presentation details the efforts of two instruction librarians in developing a faculty brown bag workshop series to fill this need at their institution. In the…[Read more]