Wax is a flexible workflow for creating online scholarly exhibitions with high quality, IIIF-ready images. It provides an alternative to tools like Omeka or WordPress for information professionals, faculty, or students interested in creating digital exhibitions or other projects showcasing collections of images. ‘Using’ Wax means employing a var…[Read more]

#ColorOurCollections is a website and social media-driven international “coloring festival” hosted by the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Each year, libraries, museums, and archives are invited to develop and share free digital coloring books (PDF files) that highlight public domain works from their collections. The festival has occurred ann…[Read more]

Paul M. Hollister (1918-2004) was a noted art glass scholar with a variety of interests that included the growth of the studio art glass movement. Voices in Studio Glass History: Art and Craft, Maker and Place, and the Critical Writings and Photography of Paul Hollister from Bard Graduate Center offers a digital exhibition, multimedia archive, and…[Read more]

The digital book Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python has already become a recommended resource within the field of digital humanities. Though it was created as a textbook for a particular class at Cornell University, this new resource is so comprehensive that it can be utilized beyond the context of the course it was created for. The book…[Read more]

Launched in 2021 by the Hammer Museum at UCLA and digital projects agency Cogapp, Hammer Channel provides viewers with an accessible and easily navigable portal to view an extensive video archive of the museum’s programs virtually and on-demand. Covering the mid-2000s to the present, the site includes lectures, exhibition walkthroughs, panel d…[Read more]

These best practices are concerned with applying the Library of Congress Subject Headings to art exhibition publications, and are intended for use with the relevant sections of the Library of Congress Subject Headings Manual. Assigning subject headings to exhibition publications presents a great opportunity for the exercise of cataloger’s j…[Read more]

The ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee has drafted these best practices to provide practical guidance to catalogers working with art exhibition publications. The guidelines are confined to cataloging issues and situations characteristic of this type of material; they are intended to be used with and are compatible with other cataloging…[Read more]