Tag: research
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Virtually NYC’s Best Collections…
Summer is the time of lounging and hiding from the heat. Recent museum initiatives to digitize their collections allow one to browse these collections from the comfort of one’s own comfy sofa. I love this shift towards image availability because it means all kinds of unknown treasures can be easily viewed from home, while in…
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Cinderella, the Sasenach, and Other Fantasies
Who doesn’t love a ball and a wedding? Especially fantasy ones… http://tinyurl.com/k8cmvkt Cinderella’s ball gown caught my eye on the billboards, and I’m dying to see the movie. I was also dying to see the gown’s construction. It’s interesting that so many of the techniques used to make this very grand gown were pulled from…
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We Love Print
For many years, the internet has been hailed as the death of print. In the periodicals area of the library, we know that’s not true, because we see hundreds of students and visitors going though our magazines every semester. http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/05/smallbusiness/startups-create-magazines/index.html?section=money_topstories Just so you know, we update our list of subscriptions all the time. We’re trying…