LONDON, England (CNN) -- The oldest known surviving copy of the New Testament gets the modern touch Thursday when parts of it go online for the first time.
The full manuscript of the Codex Sinaiticus will be online a year from now.
The British Library plans to begin publishing the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century text handwritten in Greek, on its Web site. The Gospel of Mark and the Book of Psalms go online Thursday. The full manuscript is to be online in a year.
Translations of the Codex Sinaiticus have long been widely available, but publishing images of the manuscript online will let anyone see pages that, until now, have been viewed in detail mainly by academia. More...
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Museum Day - Saturday, September 27
Honolulu, HI…. A number of Hawaii museums and galleries have announced they will participate in Smithsonian Magazine's nationwide Museum Day promotion on Saturday, September 27, 2008. Free admission cards admitting the bearer and one guest free of charge will be available in the September 2008 issue of Smithsonian Magazine or downloaded easily at www.smithsonianmagazine.com/museumday.
Particpating Hawaii Museums
Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Hawaii Maritime Center, Honolulu
Manoa Heritage Center, Honolulu
Mission Houses Museum, Honolulu
Pacific Aviation Museum, Honolulu
Queen Emma Summer Palace, Honolulu
Tropic Lightning Museum, Schofield Barracks
University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu
Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day celebrates the country's cultural offerings, allows the dissemination of knowledge, and brings Americans together. Last year nearly 450 museums and cultural institutions nationwide participated in the effort, which emulates the Smithsonian's Washington, D.C. year-round free admission policy. The complete list of participating museums across the nation will be available later this summer at http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/.
The Museum Day Admission Card is good for one-day use only on September 27, 2008 at participating museums. The admission card will be collected upon entry and is redeemable for general admission for the presenter and one guest. Only one admission card per household is allowed. The Museum Day admission card may not be used with any other offer and no rain checks will be offered.
This year's event happily coincides with the Textile Society of America's 11th Biennial Symposium hosted in Honolulu September 24-27, 2008. This international arts event includes a city-wide schedule of exhibitions presenting exquisite textile collections in more than 16 different venues throughout Honolulu. Major museums and other galleries around Honolulu are presenting spectacular textile exhibitions from their respected collections. These exhibitions will be on view during Smithsonian Magazine's MUSEUM DAY event September 27, 2008, creating a unique opportunity for residents and visitors to see the textile exhibition of their choice at no charge. (For more information about the full schedule of TSA-related textile exhibitions go to http://www.textilesociety.org/.)
"We are delighted the Smithsonian's Museum Day effort to promote awareness about the integrity, importance, and relevance of our nation's cultural institutions coincides with our 11th Biennial Symposium in Honolulu," says Carol Bier, President of Textile Society of America. "Visitors will have the opportunity to see spectacular textile collections and exhibitions during this event, and with a Museum Day pass, I'm delighted that admission is free to many of the museums."For more information about Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day, call US +1 8088473511 Call or visit https://67.53.56.226/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.bishopmuseum.org. Or go to Smithsonian Magazine's web site at www.smithsonianmagazine.com/museumday.
Particpating Hawaii Museums
Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Hawaii Maritime Center, Honolulu
Manoa Heritage Center, Honolulu
Mission Houses Museum, Honolulu
Pacific Aviation Museum, Honolulu
Queen Emma Summer Palace, Honolulu
Tropic Lightning Museum, Schofield Barracks
University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu
Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day celebrates the country's cultural offerings, allows the dissemination of knowledge, and brings Americans together. Last year nearly 450 museums and cultural institutions nationwide participated in the effort, which emulates the Smithsonian's Washington, D.C. year-round free admission policy. The complete list of participating museums across the nation will be available later this summer at http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/.
The Museum Day Admission Card is good for one-day use only on September 27, 2008 at participating museums. The admission card will be collected upon entry and is redeemable for general admission for the presenter and one guest. Only one admission card per household is allowed. The Museum Day admission card may not be used with any other offer and no rain checks will be offered.
This year's event happily coincides with the Textile Society of America's 11th Biennial Symposium hosted in Honolulu September 24-27, 2008. This international arts event includes a city-wide schedule of exhibitions presenting exquisite textile collections in more than 16 different venues throughout Honolulu. Major museums and other galleries around Honolulu are presenting spectacular textile exhibitions from their respected collections. These exhibitions will be on view during Smithsonian Magazine's MUSEUM DAY event September 27, 2008, creating a unique opportunity for residents and visitors to see the textile exhibition of their choice at no charge. (For more information about the full schedule of TSA-related textile exhibitions go to http://www.textilesociety.org/.)
"We are delighted the Smithsonian's Museum Day effort to promote awareness about the integrity, importance, and relevance of our nation's cultural institutions coincides with our 11th Biennial Symposium in Honolulu," says Carol Bier, President of Textile Society of America. "Visitors will have the opportunity to see spectacular textile collections and exhibitions during this event, and with a Museum Day pass, I'm delighted that admission is free to many of the museums."For more information about Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day, call US +1 8088473511 Call or visit https://67.53.56.226/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.bishopmuseum.org. Or go to Smithsonian Magazine's web site at www.smithsonianmagazine.com/museumday.
2008 Western Museums Association Annual Meeting
September 17-21, 2008 Anchorage, Alaska
Theme: Museums define the future!
Co-sponsored by Museums Alaska
The preliminary program is here! Find out all about Anchorage.
See the schedule-at-a-glance2008 WebWise Post-Conference Materials are Now Available Online!
The 2008 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World took place March 6-7 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida, with a day of pre-conference workshops on March 5. The theme for this year's conference was "WebWise 2.0: The Power of Community."
*Full-streaming video and slide presentations* from the conference are available for viewing online
*Video clips* of all of the WebWise speakers can also be viewed on uVu, a Service of Digital 2.
The *2008 WebWise Proceedings* will be available for download in late spring on the IMLS website. Print copies of WebWise publications can be requested by e-mailing imlsinfo@imls.gov.
**Full-text papers** of many of the presentations will appear in an upcoming issue of the online journal /First Monday/ (www.firstmonday.org), which has been publishing WebWise papers in a special issue each year since the first conference in 2000.
Stewardship of Digital Assets Workshop
A two-day workshop on sustaining digital collections
Tacoma, WA
Tuesday, October 14 – Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sponsored by OCLC Western Service Center
Registration opens July 28, 2008
Washington State Historical Society
1911 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402
1-888-238-4373
Directions available at http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wshm/index.htm.
NEDCC Persistence of Memory: Sustaining Digital Collections
SAVE THE DATE - December 9–10, 2008
InterContinental Chicago Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
InterContinental Chicago Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
Taught by a faculty of national experts, this two-day conference on digital longevity provides information about the latest developments in digital preservation to help you with the life-cycle management of your institution’s collections. To receive a conference brochure when available and/or email notification when registration opens, contact: Julie Martin, jmartin@nedcc.org
(For email-only notification, please include full name, institution, city, and state.) Partial funding for this conference is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Registration Fee: $425
Hotel Rate: $175/nightUH Manoa’s Lyon Arboretum to open on Saturdays
UH Manoa’s Lyon Arboretum to open on Saturdays
New hours will provide greater community accessUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
Contact: Christopher Dunn, (808) 988-0461
Lyon Arboretum
Posted: July 09, 2008 Starting this Saturday, the Lyon Arboretum in Mânoa Valley will be open for visitors from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. For the past several years, the Arboretum has been open to the public only during weekdays, limiting its accessibility to the community and to families who cannot visit during the week.
“By offering Saturday hours, we are responding to the number-one question we get, namely, why aren’t you open when I can bring my family?” says Dr. Christopher Dunn, director of the Arboretum. According to Jill Laughlin, the Arboretum’s education and outreach manager, “The Arboretum is a magnificent tropical rainforest within 5 miles of the city, and these extended hours will allow so many more people to experience it and to appreciate it.”
The Harold L. Lyon Arboretum is a unit of the University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa. It is a 193-acre tropical rainforest located in the head of the Mânoa Valley and is open to the public. Its mission is to increase the appreciation of the unique flora of Hawai‘i and the tropics, by conserving, curating, and studying plants and their habitats; providing inclusive educational opportunities; encouraging use by the broader community; and supporting the educational, scientific, and service activities of the University of Hawai‘i.
The Arboretum is at 3860 Mânoa Road Phone: 988-0456 Hours: 8am – 4pm, Monday – Friday; 9am – 3pm, Saturday website: http://www.hawaii.edu/lyonarboretum/
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