Exciting news: LACMA to publish exhibition catalogues online (via Modern Art Notes). This is part of a Getty Foundation initiative to publish scholarly catalogues online. It seems like a great use of technology to make scholarship more available and up-to-date, both of which should be part of the educational missions of such museums.
Disappointing news: National Archives to ban photography (via the Washington Post). DCist offers a pretty reasonable opinion about it; apparently, the Archives recently changed their UV filters to make the documents appear in true color, but the new filters make them more vulnerable to flash photography. If the primary purpose really is preservation of the documents, that's understandable, and to be honest I wouldn't have expected photography to have been permitted before (I've never visited). Still, it is unfortunate that the Archives is forced to take a step away from making these things freely available to "reproduce."
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