| Title | Description |
| Valencian Institute of Modern Art |
The "Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM)" website offers pertinent information about this museum of contemporary art. The site, available in English, Spanish and Valencian, is divided into several sections presented in a tabular form. The collections section describes the main features of the permanent collection of the museum. It consists of over 10,000 pieces representing Cubism, Surrealism, Informalism, Pop Art and other expressions of modern art during the last century. There is also an extensive collection of graphic design and photography, although none of the collections or exhibitions is displayed on the webpage. In addition to further information about past and future temporary exhibitions, conferences and publications, the user can access the bibliographic catalogue of the IVAM's library, which holds more than 40,000 documents and other resources relating to modern art. Researches may be interested in the Data search tool (in the "Collections" section), as it allows the user to consult information about the collections of the museum too. This last option is only available after completing a registration form. |
| Computerspiele museum |
The is the English-language website of the Berlin Computer Games Museum (Computerspiele Museum, run by the Forderverein fur Jugend und Sozialarbeit e.V.). The Museum has staged a number of temporary exhibitions since 2006, and in April 2009 it announced funding for a new permanent Computer Game Museum to be housed in Berlin. The Museum's website is in both English and German, with the English version offering online exhibitions such as the sophisticated 'History of Online Games' subsite (2009, requires Flash) and an 'Online Expo of Gaming Machines'. There are also details of the Museum, its directing body and partners. The site updates occasionally with news, and there is also a free email newsletter. The 'History of Online Games' timeline exhibition may be especially useful for students researching the history of videogames. |
| Plastics historical society |
This is the website of the Plastics Historical Society, a partner in the JISC Museum of Design in Plastics Digitisation Project. Along with a wealth of information about the Society and its activities, the website contains a Virtual Museum which offers a useful timeline and a variety of exhibits on horn and different types of 20th century plastics. There is a useful 'Caring for Plastics' page which may interest conservators - this can be found in the 'Experiencing Plastics' section. There are also many open-access scholarly papers and notes in the 'Articles & Papers' section. There is a weblog and a discussion forum. The Society is based in the UK, and its library is available for consultation at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in London - the website has an online catalogue for the Library. This website will be a vital starting point for anyone interested in the history of design with plastics in the English-speaking world and beyond. |
| Gallery Oldham : a space for people and ideas |
This is the website of Gallery Oldham, built in 2002 as part of a new Cultural Quarter for the town. Gallery Oldham shows different exhibitions of contemporary art, work from their collection, and community art concurrently and there is information about current, past and forthcoming exhibitions on the website. The website also has details of the gallery's wildlife, local history and education programmes, as well as forthcoming events. The gallery has a collection comprising art, decorative arts, natural history items, geological and archaeological samples as well as photographs and printed materials. There is a searchable online archive, which contains selected items from the gallery's collection and users can search by keyword and create an album to store images they like. As the collection is owned by the people of Oldham, appointments can be made to view items that are not on display, contact details for relevant staff members are available. |
| University of Liverpool : Victoria gallery & museum |
This is the website of the Victoria Gallery and Museum, based at the University of Liverpool. The art collection has works from the 16th to 21st centuries, with over 6,500 items. Highlights include a number of Audubon oil paintings (the largest collection outside America), ceramics from the Sir Charles Sydney Jones collection and a modern sculpture collection. The Museum section shows items from the University collection covering a range of areas such as animal skeletons and X-ray studies. There is an illustrated history of the building and as temporary exhibitions are held at the Victoria Gallery, details of current, past and forthcoming exhibitions can also be found on the website. There are also details of events as well as some general information about the Gallery and Museum for visitors. |
| Dinajpur museum |
This website publishes a digital catalogue of the objects in the Dinajpur Museum, Bagladesh. Clicking on "object search" displays a search form that can also list by categories all objects in the museum. For each artefact, a short description and a small picture is displayed. Clicking on the "show details" button will open a popup with the full record and several colour pictures (if available) of the chosen artefact. The museum "possesses various categories of objects including some rare and interesting pieces of sculptures which testify to the Eastern Indian School of Art" after the 6th century AD. Among the artefacts are inscriptions, sculptures and coins. Researchers interested in the archaeology of Bangladesh or specifically in artefacts conserved in the museum will find this website very useful. |
| Red de Bibliotecas de Museos (BIMUS) |
BIMUS is the Spanish network of museum libraries created by the Ministry of Culture in order to centralise the services offered by the libraries of eighteen museums and arts institutes, such as: Museo Arqueológico Nacional; Museo del Greco; Museo Sefardí; Museo de América; Museo Sorolla; and Museo Nacional de Teatro. The website grants access to the collective catalogue of resources. Although materials have not been digitised, the catalogue will be useful for researchers of Spanish art history; theatre studies; and Latin American Studies. Search options include the possibility of browsing: periodic publications; historical documents (prior 1956); and new acquisitions. There is also the possibility of accessing other museum libraries' catalogues around the world. |
| V&A online journal |
This Web page gives access to all issues of the 'V&A Online Journal', a free full-text research journal. This annual ejournal is published by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At December 2009 there are two issues online, with articles published as HTML pages. Example scholarly articles include: 'James "Athenian" Stuart: The Architect as Landscape Painter'; 'Doing Time: Patchwork as a Tool of Social Rehabilitation in British Prisons'; 'Computer Art at the V&A'; and 'The Film Work of Stage Designer Oliver Messel', among others. There are also book reviews and interviews. The website states that... "Inclusion is not restricted to V&A staff", and papers are invited from outside the museum. Full details of the editors and the submission process are available at the website. |
| 1807 commemorated |
This website, from the 1807 Commemorated Project, at the University of York, and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, provides a 'resource website for museum practitioners, consultants, outreach officers and all those with an interest in, or connection to, the heritage sector in Britain'. The website aims to 'ensure that future policies and practices within museums, libraries and archives are shaped and informed by the experiences of museum staff, consultants, communities and audiences who engaged with the marking of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade'. The website contains information and suggestions for developing exhibitions, working with the communities in which the museums are situated, and the roles of curators. The website is easily navigated and simply designed and aims to make the process of collection-building, presentation and preservation a more academic and rigorous process. |
| RBM : a journal of rare books, manuscripts, and cultural heritage |
'RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage' (formerly Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, RBML) is a full-text online journal, published twice a year by the U.S. Association of College and Research Libraries. RBM journal issues from 1998 to 2008 are freely available online. Articles are published as PDF files. Some journal issues are themed - for instance the Spring 2008 "Ephemera" issue, with article titles such as: 'The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera' and 'The Contribution of Ephemera Dealers'. Example titles from other issues include: 'Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books on the Internet'; 'Archiving the Avant-garde'; 'Legal Concepts of Cultural Heritage Property'; and 'Now What Should We Do with Them?: Artists' Books in the Curriculum'. An additional index is available for the print issues of RBML which were produced from 1986 to 1995. There are also details of the editors and submission procedures. RBM will be a useful publication of interest to librarians, archivists, curators, collectors, book dealers, and bibliophiles. |
| Military historical museums Pleven, Bulgaria |
This website, from the Military Historical Museums in Pleven, Bulgaria, provides free online access to information about the town's military and museum history. The town is regarded as 'a memorial town and a town-museum' because of 'the Russo-Turkish War 1877-1878, which brought Bulgaria back to the maps of Europe and of the world' and because 'Pleven was of a great military, political and strategic importance'. The website presents some information on the town's history, but its focus is on the various military museums in the locality. There are links to information about a number of different museums - including various photographs. Moreover, there is a collection of photographs covering both the museums' housing and some of their collections. |
| Sounds Familiar? Accents and dialects of the UK |
The website 'Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK' is one of the British Library online learning resources. It is dedicated to the study of British accents and vocabularies, from a contemporary and historical perspective. Users can investigate recent trends in pronunciation, such as 'upspeak' or 'T-glottaling', or discover how the English of British Asians is influenced by their bilingual status. The resource includes a selection of over seventy audio recordings and more than 600 short audio clips from the British Library Sound Archive. Some of the materials were recorded in the 1950s and others almost half a century later, between 1998 and1999. The resource consists of five main sections: Regional Voices; Changing Voices; Your Voices; Case Studies; and Activities. The first two of these sections focus, respectively, on the regional and historical variations of English. 'Case Studies' looks into three specific English varieties: Received Pronunciation, Geordie Dialect, and the language of ethnic minorities in the UK. Suggested 'Activities' encourage users to investigate the use of English in their own communities, and 'Your Voices' provides them with an opportunity to publish their results on the site. With its interactive character and comprehensive set of audio data and their interpretations, this site is commendable to general audience interested in the subject, as well as students and researchers of linguistics, particularly phonetics and sociolinguistics. |
| Archives of Maryland online |
This website, the Archives of Maryland Online, 'provides access [as of October 2009] to over 471,000 historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government'. The simple to use website is split into several subcategories (including, but not limited to, slavery commission, session laws, fiscal records, judicial records, constitutional records, and so on) aims to provide researchers, scholars and interested amateurs with the necessary access to historical documents relating to Maryland. The records can be browsed using the subcategories or keyword searched. The massive amounts of information available on this simple to use website mean that this is a very strong resource for those interested in the history of Maryland or the United States in general. |
| Digest of Welsh historical statistics : local government, 1748-1974 |
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics : Local Government, 1748-1974' dataset hosted by the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to download as a compressed (zip) file. This is a machine-readable version of part of John Williams' Digest of Welsh Historical and is intended to provide a service for those working on the history of modern Wales. The main tables are: Poor law expenditure and receipts, 1748-1937; Number of paupers relieved, indoor and outdoor, 1840-1939; Income, by county, 1792-1937; Expenditure, by county, 1792-1937; Income and expenditure, 1957-1974; Expenditure on highways, 1812-1914; police, 1857-1914; and education, 1903-1914. |
| Dach blog |
Dach is a blog which keeps readers updated on the British Library's German collections. It also discusses wider issues connected with German, Austrian and German Swiss culture, politics and literature. The authors - Clemens Gresser, Susan Reed and Dorothea Miehe - are all librarians at the British Library. Some blog postings also give a more personal perspective on issues relating to German culture and everyday work issues. For example, a recent post talked about German elections and how they work. There is an archive of blog postings and a tag cloud to direct readers to frequently discussed subjects. |
