Interview with Jennifer Martinez Wormser, formerly director of the library at the Laguna College of Art and Design, conducted in 2017. She talks about instruction, collections, and programming at an art and design school library.

The announcement in 2019 that the Johnson Publishing Company was selling its photo archive inspired the founders of the Loss/Capture Project, Steven Booth and Stacie Williams, to reflect on Black cultural heritage and history and archives, particularly as this history is represented in collections in Chicago. With support from Sixty Inches From…[Read more]

The Digital Piranesi website is a project from the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina, partially funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The project makes the engravings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) freely accessible through the digitization of a complete set of the posthumously…[Read more]

Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, aims to demonstrate to readers how data can be used to “remake the world.” Building upon scholarship on intersectional feminism, data science theory, and examples of data projects, the authors formulate seven principles of data feminism aimed at exposing and addressing forces of str…[Read more]

D-CRAFT, the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit, is a set of tools that was created to provide galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and repositories (GLAMR institutions) with best practices for assessing reuse of digital objects. Released in May 2023, the Toolkit includes information about ten assessment methods; tutorials;…[Read more]

LUX: Yale Collections Discovery is an ambitious digital discovery platform that aggregates Yale University’s cultural heritage and natural history collections. Using a Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) Linked Art model and a backend knowledge graph structure, LUX centralizes the collection catalogs of Yale University Library, Yale Center for B…[Read more]

The Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA), formerly called Consortial Action to Preserve Born-Digital Web-Based Art History & Culture, is a project that preserves at-risk web-based art materials, making them accessible for art historians, critics, curators, and other individuals involved in art research and scholarship.

Designed by Women, a digital resource organized by the Stewart Program for Modern Design, is an effort to focus attention on the many significant examples of women’s contributions to design around the globe from 1900 to the present. The scope of objects covered includes furniture, textiles, jewelry, tableware, and some graphic design. This site w…[Read more]

Textile Hive is an online repository of more than 40,000 textiles, featuring high-quality photos and information designers can use to inspire, enrich, and enhance their creative projects. This database originated from the Andrea Aranow Textile Design Collection, an extensive personal collection and physical textile library located in Portland,…[Read more]

The Artists Studios Resources guide offers valuable information for emerging studio artists such as books and databases, as well as links to websites on artists (such as artist archives), grant resources, podcasts, and artist interviews related to studio practice and the fine arts. Created by a Senior Art Librarian at the New York Public Library…[Read more]

All Light, Expanded is the digital companion to the 2021 film, All Light, Everywhere, which won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation. The film itself is a non-linear experimental documentary that explores the intertwined histories of cameras, weapons, and policing. The director, Theo Anthony, is a Baltimore native…[Read more]

Mapping Philippine Material Culture (MPMC) is a project that aggregates digital images of Philippine objects in museums worldwide, contextualizing these objects in collaboration with Philippine scholars and “culture bearers.” The online platform relies on images that are either in the public domain or have creative commons licenses, and cur…[Read more]