Egypt
New York Times
- A Walk Through The Institut D'egypte Wreckage
Egypt Independent (Ola El-Saket) With photos. Since the Institut d'Egypte burned down in December during clashes resulting from a sit-in by the cabinet being violently dispersed by police, people have been concerned about the national treasures of...
- Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology
Brooklyn Museum (Tom Hardwick) My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In...
- Museum Meltdown?
Winnipeg Sun (Ulna Ilnytzky) An article which looks at how the economic downturn has impacted museums in the U.S. and how those museums are responding. While few museums would dare to sell off their treasures, cost-cutting and restructuring has become...
- Wellcome Library's Medical Collection Goes Digital In Egypt
24 Hour MuseumA pioneering new partnership between the Wellcome Library in London and Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) will help reveal the story of early medicine in the Eastern world and enable rare materials to be universally accessible for the...
- Exhibition: Final Month Of Egypt Through Other Eyes
http://tinyurl.com/fu59o (artdaily.com)For anyone wishing to visit the exhibition Egypt Through Other Eyes: The Popularization of Ancient Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, it is in its last four weeks: "The show is presenting more than thirty books...
Egypt
Groundbreaking Partnership Unites Decades of Research
New York Times
MOST people associate museums with art and artifacts, not research libraries. But many of New York’s most prestigious museums have extensive collections of books and papers. Four of them — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Frick Collection — have combined forces to share resources, save money and make their holdings more accessible to the public.
Together these institutions make up the New York Art Resources Consortium, an integrated library system formed in 2007 that is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its Web site, nyarc.org, just went on line in February. Last year, three of the museums united their collections in one catalog, called Arcade (the Met has kept its catalog separate).
“This allows us to do some things collaboratively that we weren’t able to do individually,” said Milan R. Hughston, the chief of library and museum archives at MoMA. “Together we aggregate close to a million books, articles, periodicals and special collections that document art history.”
The database, at arcade.nyarc.org, is a trove of more than 800,000 records from ancient Egypt to contemporary art that includes exhibition and auction sale catalogs, monographs, periodicals, rare books, photographs and archival materials.
- A Walk Through The Institut D'egypte Wreckage
Egypt Independent (Ola El-Saket) With photos. Since the Institut d'Egypte burned down in December during clashes resulting from a sit-in by the cabinet being violently dispersed by police, people have been concerned about the national treasures of...
- Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology
Brooklyn Museum (Tom Hardwick) My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In...
- Museum Meltdown?
Winnipeg Sun (Ulna Ilnytzky) An article which looks at how the economic downturn has impacted museums in the U.S. and how those museums are responding. While few museums would dare to sell off their treasures, cost-cutting and restructuring has become...
- Wellcome Library's Medical Collection Goes Digital In Egypt
24 Hour MuseumA pioneering new partnership between the Wellcome Library in London and Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) will help reveal the story of early medicine in the Eastern world and enable rare materials to be universally accessible for the...
- Exhibition: Final Month Of Egypt Through Other Eyes
http://tinyurl.com/fu59o (artdaily.com)For anyone wishing to visit the exhibition Egypt Through Other Eyes: The Popularization of Ancient Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, it is in its last four weeks: "The show is presenting more than thirty books...