100,000 Digitized Art History Materials from the Getty Research Institute Now Available in the Digital Public Library of America. Partnership with groundbreaking online library DPLA launches with digitized items from the Getty Research Institute’s library and special collections We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Digital Public Library of America.
Launched in April 2013, the DPLA brings together millions of digitized books, artworks, and rare documents from American libraries, archives, and museums. Our collaboration has begun with nearly 100,000 records for digital images and texts from the Getty Research Institute’s Library and Special Collections, which contain a vast trove of rare and unique materials for the study of visual culture. In this work we join 20 other partners including the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian, and our own Los Angeles colleagues the USC Libraries.
Via a beautifully designed, easy-to-use search, the DPLA makes available digital resources that would otherwise be findable only through individual institutions’ catalogues and specialized search portals. Complex network. RAID Logs: the Issues element. Posted by Elizabeth This is part 4 in a series about RAID logs.
The previous parts are here: RAID logs: an introduction RAID logs: the Risk element RAID logs: the Actions element This week in my series about RAID (that stands for risks, actions, issues and decisions, in case you don’t remember) logs I’ll be looking at the ‘I’ element: issues. I’ll share with you some do’s and don’ts for using an issues log as part of this format. Here is an example of what an issues log could look like.
Do: Do use the issues log to record as many issues as possible. Do review the log regularly. Do allocate owners to issues. Do give every issue an identifying number. Don’t: Don’t forget to close issues when they have either been dealt with or the problem has passed. Don’t duplicate actions: if you record an action in the issues log to manage an issue that the project is facing, don’t copy it on to the action log as well. Don’t worry about downgrading issues. Don’t forget to follow up! Related posts: Why the Peter Principle Works. Last Updated Aug 15, 2011 2:40 PM EDT Everyone's heard of the Peter Principle - that employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence - a concept that walks that all-too-fine line between humor and reality.
We've all seen it in action more times than we'd like. Ironically, some percentage of you will almost certainly be promoted to a position where you're no longer effective. For some of you, that's already happened. Sobering thought. Well, here's the thing. Robert Browning once said, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp. "