Book review of Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home by Chriscinda Henry. The Pennsylvania State University Press, January 2022. 280 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-08911-9 (h/c), $104.95. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08911-9.html. Reviewed May 2022 by Annalise Welte, Reference Librarian,…[Read more]

Book review: Consuming Painting: Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris by Allison Deutsch. The Pennsylvania State University Press, February 2021. 216 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-08723-8 (h/c), $94.95. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08723-8.html. Reviewed May 2022 Carling Spinney, Reference Assistant, Queen’s University L…[Read more]

Book review: Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing edited by Martin Brückner et al. University of Minnesota Press, October 2021. 312 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1089-1 (pbk.), $30.00. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/modelwork. Reviewed May 2022 Michele Jennings, Art Librarian, Ohio University Libraries, mljennin@ohio.edu.

Book review of Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West edited by Betsy Fahlman et al. Hirmer, November 2021. 176 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3753-8 (h/c), $40.00. https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-88-3/landscapes_of_extraction-2190/. Reviewed January 2022 by Dai Newman, Catalog and Instruction Librarian, Columbus College of…[Read more]

Book review: Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche, edited by Victoria I. Lyall, and Terezita Romo. Yale University Press, March 2022. 224 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25898-1 (h/c), $50.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300258981/traitor-survivor-icon. Reviewed May 2022 by Clayton C. Kirking, New York Public Library, Retired,…[Read more]

Book review of Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara J. Bloemink, and Florine Stettheimer. Hirmer, February 2022. 435 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3834-4 (h/c), $29.95. https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-3-3/florine_stettheimer-2235/. Reviewed May 2022 by Vada Komistra, Library Technician, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.,…[Read more]

PAST DUE: Report and Recommendations of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Civic Memory Working Group is the culmination of 18 months of discussions on how to think about existing and future civic memory projects. The 40-member group included historians, artists, architects, curators, designers, civic leaders, cultural leaders, and Indigenous elders a…[Read more]

Museum digital initiatives during the Coronavirus Pandemic (https://digitalmuseums.at) is an Austrian-based research project by Dr. Chira Zuanni on the impact of COVID-19 on museums and their digital strategies. The homepage presents a map of museum digital initiatives around the world. The digital initiatives are categorized by type: contemporary…[Read more]

A sample of editorial movement, stored in the Cuban National Fine Arts Museum, of the artists Alfredo Sosabravo, Osneldo García and Lesbia Vent Dumois is presented. These bibliographical documents allow the study of their works. In content analysis and processing of their artistic files, a chronological classification is necessary, by documentary…[Read more]

People of Craft (https://peopleofcraft.com) is billed as a “showcase” of creatives of color in the fields of design, illustration, photography, writing, web development and other adjacent fields. The landing page is vibrantly colorful, with each artist represented by a hero image of their own choosing. The simple interface allows users to bro…[Read more]

In libraries without an accessibility specialist on staff, it can feel daunting to even begin work on creating accessible (or remediating inaccessible) digital content. This presentation will discuss how seeding and growing a culture of accessibility–in institutions of all sizes–can be an effective strategy for sustainably undertaking this…[Read more]

In creating an oral history collection documenting the stories of those impacted by the Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires, efforts were made to make these stories accessible to a wide audience and representative of the communities affected by the disaster. The University of Tennessee Libraries’ recent implementation of the International Image…[Read more]

This presentation shares efforts to digitise glass plate negatives as part of the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. It provides examples of projects and individual records and also mentions the use of Zooniverse for crowdsourcing metadata. It was given as part of the “Preserving Photographic Glass Plates: Conservation and Access in…[Read more]

This lightning talk shared experiences with designing and implementing an asynchronous co-curricular visual literacy program. The interactive tutorial introduced students to fair use, public domain, and Creative Commons images and included an active learning component where students created their own fun and lighthearted memes using new visual…[Read more]