With @rlfrick at the @us_imls National Medal awards

With @rlfrick at the @us_imls National Medal awards

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Georgetown TEFL graduation (at Georgetown University)

Georgetown TEFL graduation (at Georgetown University)


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"Modern Zemblan Cuisine" in #arlingtonva ... have @JakobGradus & @CharlesXKinbote come to town?

“Modern Zemblan Cuisine” in #arlingtonva … have @JakobGradus & @CharlesXKinbotte come to town? (at Rays The Steaks)


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@biodivlibrary at the Park Service #bioblitz2016

@biodivlibrary at the Park Service #bioblitz2016 (at National Mall and Memorial Parks)


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Yes we’ve had an Aussie visitor to @silibraries but not...

Yes we’ve had an Aussie visitor to @silibraries but not @elyw123 @thesherrin @sebsnarl @tim01@george08 (at Smithsonian Libraries)


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... and now there bank is gone from Wilson Blvd #ArlingtonVa

So long Wilson Blvd Wendy's, long time landmark #ArlingtonVA

Wrecking ball arrived today... next up the old Wells Fargo bank... and then that should do it for the Rosslyn-Courthouse stretch of the Champs Elysees of Arlington that started when I moved here in 1983.

The Nature of Illumination: Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture (CUA CHIM Forum talk)

A bit delayed in posting this; I've been working on the written version (extract below). Stay tuned for that somewhere in the future ...

The Nature of Illumination: Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Cultural Heritage Information Management Forum. The Catholic University of America. Washington, DC. 5 June 2015

The Nature of Illumination: Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture. from Martin Kalfatovic

Introduction

In both its creation and transmission, technology has driven our shared human culture. Libraries (and the congruent institutions of archives and museums), in varying forms and modalities across time and culture, have proven to be the best, though too often fragile, vessels for the transmission of culture through both time and space. Over the past thirty years, new technologies, specifically the Internet, have expanded the reach of our “memory institutions” while at the same time posing challenges to their relevance from the world at large. At the same time, long held practices around customer service; curation, selection, and preservation of collections; and the place of the library in the knowledge creation are being questioned from both inside and outside these institutions.

Increasingly, technology is providing the means to bring research libraries closer together, to unite dispersed yet related collections, and to engage a new and wider audience that can enhance the diffusion of institutional knowledge. Our cultural heritage professionals of today and the future will need not only a firm grounding in their subject areas, but also a deep and be broadly conversant in technology.

As William Gibson has noted, “Time moves in one direction, memory in another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”1 Having constructed these artifacts, it remains our mission to provide the vision and resources to maintain them for the future.

2 million Flickr views ... and counting

I joined Flickr back in March 2006, just a touch over 10 years ago (my how time flies!)

Over that time I've uploaded nearly 50,000 pictures to Flickr (stay tuned to see what #50K is!), worked on a number of Flickr related projects in my professional life (and visited Flickr HQ in San Francisco twice!)

The item with the single most views is still "Angry Fish" (from 2007) ... but this picture of the beach at Palm Beach, FLA, zoomed to second place in just a year).

2016 BHL Program Director's Report #BHLat10 @BiodivLibrary

.... and here's the BHL Program Director's report from the BHL London meetings.

2016 BHL Program Director's Report. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Open Partners' Meeting, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. London, 13 April 2016.

2016 BHL Program Director's Report from Martin Kalfatovic

The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward, BHL Day 2016, Natural History Museum. London, 12 April 2016.

Catching up on my recent London business.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Day 2016, Natural History Museum. London, 12 April 2016.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward from Martin Kalfatovic

In Memorium: William Shakespeare: 1564 – 23 April 1616

For the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, I bring you his memorial in Southwark Cathedral. 

British Airways 217: LHR to IAD

Gate C62. A380!!!