Category Archives: Photography

DIY Book Scanner for less than $20

Posted on 10 April 2010 by Rick Mason

If you have reading material that you would like to digitize, but not enough budget to make it happen, this might be your recipe for a Saturday afternoon do-it-yourself (DIY) project: New & Improved Portable, Paperless, Digital Copy Machine The … Continue reading →

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Taking Library Photographs

Posted on 28 March 2010 by Rick Mason

Taking Pictures and Telling Stories at our Libraries is a post on the ALA TechSource blog by Cindi Trainor.  It is a good overview for how someone can take decent photographs in a library setting. The only suggestion I would … Continue reading →

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Library 101

Posted on 28 October 2009 by Rick Mason

The Library 101 video debuted today at the Internet Librarian conference.  Created by Michael Porter (a.k.a. Libraryman) and David Lee King, the video is a foot-tapping, library-rocking tour-de-force.  Clear the next eight minutes in your schedule, put on some headphones, … Continue reading →

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TinEye Reverse Image Search

Posted on 9 August 2009 by Rick Mason

TinEye is an image search engine with a twist:  you provide it with an image, and it returns a list of websites utilizing that image. I can quickly think of a few really good uses of this service: You have … Continue reading →

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Millennial Disc

Posted on 19 July 2009 by Rick Mason

It’s called the Millennial Disc, and it is being marketed as a 1,000 year storage for digital information. Before we run out and buy a stack of these for our archives, I would simply ask: How many years before some … Continue reading →

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Shorpy Photo Archive

Posted on 23 June 2009 by Rick Mason

Shorpy is a collection of photographs presented using a blog, but it is an especially captivating collection.  A combination of historical photographs, found images, and personal/family photos, there is rarely an entry that doesn’t hold some interest for the viewer. … Continue reading →

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FreeLargePhotos

Posted on 15 March 2009 by Rick Mason

FreeLargePhotos.com is a website that matches its name.  It is a collection of photos greater than 4MP that are free for use with attribution, except for selling products or promoting businesses or organizations. If you are a photographer, note that … Continue reading →

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A Heavenly Library in Austria

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Rick Mason

Jessamyn posted this link, in an effort to help identify the library.  I wasn’t the first to come up with the correct answer, but it was a treat to scan several pages of Google Images containing library frescos before finding … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Library

Posted on 28 January 2009 by Rick Mason

The Open Library Environment (there will be a post on this project in the near future) recently met at Lehigh University’s Linderman Library in Bethlehem, PA.  Pictures were taken and posted on Flickr. I especially love the stained glass skylight…

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LIFE Photo Archive

Posted on 18 November 2008 by Rick Mason

About 2 million images from the LIFE Photo Archive have been digitized and are available via Google Image Search.  What is even better is that, over the next few months, the remaining 8 million images from the collection will be … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Orphan Works Example

Posted on 13 May 2008 by Rick Mason

In a brief essay titled Orphan Works:  A Rant, posted on ©ollecanea, Kenny Crews presents an interestingly common example of how a common encounter results in an orphan work. “…I kindly handed the camera to a total stranger, requesting a … Continue reading →

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WorldCat and Digital Images Collections

Posted on 15 April 2008 by Rick Mason

Go to WorldCat and type in a search.  The results contain books, video, audio, you name it.  One of the more recent additions is the Digital Images Collections, which can be wonderful to view.  How to find them, though? Type … Continue reading →

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Book Scanning at the Internet Archive

Posted on 23 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text  project. The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department … Continue reading →

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Abandoned Books in Detroit

Posted on 22 February 2008 by Rick Mason

This is one of those stories that just makes one feel sick to your stomach… the Detroit Public Schools simply abandoned a book depository sometime in the mid 1980s.  Twenty years, several fires, and a great deal of weather exposure … Continue reading →

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