by kitchensisters | Apr 4, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) ARC, a nonprofit archive/music library/research library, with the largest popular music collection in the world, is running a GoFundMe campaign to keep the collection in NYC, where they’ve been since...
by kitchensisters | Apr 3, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay for #NationalWalkingDay – A Walking Library in London, from the 1930s.
by kitchensisters | Apr 2, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay: The Forbes Pigment Collection “For Edward Waldo Forbes, pigment hunting and gathering was not just a matter of creating an archive of lost or languishing color. It was about the union of art and science.” Learn all about this intriguing...
by kitchensisters | Apr 1, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – W.E.B. Dubois’s Data Portraits For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black life....
by kitchensisters | Mar 27, 2019 | The Keepers
On March 27, 1961, nine students from Tougaloo College in Mississippi entered the segregated main branch of the Jackson Public Library and began to read. Library staff quickly called the police and after refusing to leave, all nine students were all arrested and...
by kitchensisters | Mar 25, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Open Culture, home of “the best free cultural & educational media on the web.” Get educated at openculture.com
