Two Archives Announce Online Collections

The Robert L. Van Nice Collection

Photo from a study of light in Hagia Sophia

done by Thomas Whittemore’s team in 1948

"A processing blog for the Robert L. Van Nice Records and Fieldwork Papers (1937-1985) at the Image Collection and Fieldwork Archive of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C."

Online Medici Archive Project

"The Medici Archive Project is a non-profit international Foundation based in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, Italy with offices in the United States. This ambitious online archive project is dedicated to revealing the astonishing story of the most influential family dynasty in Western civilization: the Medici."

10 Free Online Image Editing Tools

An interesting blog post from Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers series appeared this month about open source image editing tools.  Since PhotoShop is so expensive and out of reach for many students (and faculty!), these tools might be useful for presenting and research papers.

Web Accessibility Initiative

The Web Accessibility Initiative is an excellent project that seeks to provide "Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities."  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the project's parent organization.