Category Archives: General Interest

The last Chinese rubbings image was uploaded to DRS today!!

Preservation Services recently completed the conservation and digitization of Chinese rubbings from the Harvard-Yenching Library. Preservation has been working on the digitization of Chinese rubbings for nearly 10 years, beginning in 2004 with the Fine Arts Library’s Rübel Chinese Rubbings … Continue reading

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Boston in Winter

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Elena Bulat in the Boston Globe

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Google and the World Brain

FYI: Shots from Imaging Services run from timecodes 45 to 56 seconds. And we provide the trailer’s final sound effect. I just watched the library’s copy.

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Graphics Atlas

Graphics Atlas is a sophisticated resource that presents a unique, object-based approach for the identification and characterization of prints and photographs.

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Happy Merry Spectral Response

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15 of the Weirdest Images in the British Library’s New Digital Trove

Do you really think those original pages were that sick yellow-green color? No way, José.

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Slideshows controlled with hand motions

Super cool. Imagine slideshows of library collections that run in public buildings, like the HU Information Office space, the Science Center, or the fancy-pants Harvard Club in NYC. Forward, back, zoom, show me the metadata, all via the waving of … Continue reading

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Magnificent in Miniature: The Emerson-White Book of Hours

This two volume title will be coming to Imaging Service for digitization at some point.

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The University of Rochester and George Eastman House Announce Joint Master’s Degree Program in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management

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