Diane Zorich
@dzorich.bsky.social
Lapsed anthropologist. All things cultural heritage + digital. Thoughts expressed are my own. (Not the Connecticut-based realtor who shares my name, and sadly, my features.)
And here's Charlie Parker's gorgeous alto saxophone, from the Smithsonian's national Museum of African American HIstory and Culture.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
And here's Charlie Parker's gorgeous alto saxophone, from the Smithsonian's national Museum of African American HIstory and Culture.
collections.si.edu/search/detai...
collections.si.edu/search/detai...
The #NoKings march in DC was large, vocal, &, as I overheard a fellow marcher say, the "most considerate group of people I've ever met." Sad to see snipers on the roof of the National Gallery of Art, & speakers behind what I assume was bulletproof glass.
Also, the sandwich made an appearance.
Also, the sandwich made an appearance.
October 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The #NoKings march in DC was large, vocal, &, as I overheard a fellow marcher say, the "most considerate group of people I've ever met." Sad to see snipers on the roof of the National Gallery of Art, & speakers behind what I assume was bulletproof glass.
Also, the sandwich made an appearance.
Also, the sandwich made an appearance.
An epitaph for the ages....
(Seen at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC)
(Seen at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC)
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
An epitaph for the ages....
(Seen at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC)
(Seen at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC)
Seen while walking around town.... DC samizdat...
October 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Seen while walking around town.... DC samizdat...
A photo of the National Mall taken on Labor Day weekend at 10:50AM (FWIW museums open @ 10:00AM.) Family visits taper off around Labor Day due to the start of school, but the near-deserted Mall on a beautiful holiday weekend struck me as so unusual that I photographed it.)
September 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A photo of the National Mall taken on Labor Day weekend at 10:50AM (FWIW museums open @ 10:00AM.) Family visits taper off around Labor Day due to the start of school, but the near-deserted Mall on a beautiful holiday weekend struck me as so unusual that I photographed it.)
Posters advertising the National Book Festival, hosted for 25 years now by the Library of Congress.
1. Inaugural poster
2. This year's poster (celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Festival)
3. My favorite poster (because of the Hilma af Klint vibe...)
1. Inaugural poster
2. This year's poster (celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Festival)
3. My favorite poster (because of the Hilma af Klint vibe...)
September 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Posters advertising the National Book Festival, hosted for 25 years now by the Library of Congress.
1. Inaugural poster
2. This year's poster (celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Festival)
3. My favorite poster (because of the Hilma af Klint vibe...)
1. Inaugural poster
2. This year's poster (celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Festival)
3. My favorite poster (because of the Hilma af Klint vibe...)
Absolutely loved this exhibit. The catalog is a delight too, both content and book production (with insects appearing when you ruffle or bend the fore edge of the book! )
August 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Absolutely loved this exhibit. The catalog is a delight too, both content and book production (with insects appearing when you ruffle or bend the fore edge of the book! )
Every once in a while I stumble on a humanities db that feeds my soul...
"BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art)-a new, open-access db of representations of books & other documents in the figurative arts between 1300- 600 CE
basiraproject.org
"BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art)-a new, open-access db of representations of books & other documents in the figurative arts between 1300- 600 CE
basiraproject.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Every once in a while I stumble on a humanities db that feeds my soul...
"BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art)-a new, open-access db of representations of books & other documents in the figurative arts between 1300- 600 CE
basiraproject.org
"BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art)-a new, open-access db of representations of books & other documents in the figurative arts between 1300- 600 CE
basiraproject.org
Thanks for shining light on the DC Public Libraries! ❤️ Check out the Southwest Library and the Anacostia Library. Architectural gems that are much-loved centers of their communities.
August 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks for shining light on the DC Public Libraries! ❤️ Check out the Southwest Library and the Anacostia Library. Architectural gems that are much-loved centers of their communities.
If you haven't witnessed a bird migration, check out this cormorant migration (May 2022, Rodanthe, NC) This is just a 20 sec. clip of a migration event that NPS staff said had been going on for days by the time we came across it....)
March 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If you haven't witnessed a bird migration, check out this cormorant migration (May 2022, Rodanthe, NC) This is just a 20 sec. clip of a migration event that NPS staff said had been going on for days by the time we came across it....)
Yes, I'm here for it! Bought this book, in part, for that reason.
December 30, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Yes, I'm here for it! Bought this book, in part, for that reason.
New Council on Library and and Information Resources (CLIR) Report: "Temporary Positions in Archives: Best Practices and Case Studies" Online at: www.clir.org/wp-content/u...
December 26, 2024 at 4:06 PM
New Council on Library and and Information Resources (CLIR) Report: "Temporary Positions in Archives: Best Practices and Case Studies" Online at: www.clir.org/wp-content/u...
Hmm. We've always used an owl (see below) as our tree topper on our real tree. Maybe it's time to up the ante and make the whole thing "real"....
December 22, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Hmm. We've always used an owl (see below) as our tree topper on our real tree. Maybe it's time to up the ante and make the whole thing "real"....
Working with Independent Museum Professionals: A guide to help museums find and work with IMPs" (I wish this was available when I was an IMP many years ago....) static1.squarespace.com/static/643d5...
December 21, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Working with Independent Museum Professionals: A guide to help museums find and work with IMPs" (I wish this was available when I was an IMP many years ago....) static1.squarespace.com/static/643d5...
Tickets from a Tokyo train trip, plus hand drawn/cut bookmark inside a 1955 copy of Moby Dick found in a Free Little Library. (Love to imagine the story(ies) that led to this association....)
July 28, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Tickets from a Tokyo train trip, plus hand drawn/cut bookmark inside a 1955 copy of Moby Dick found in a Free Little Library. (Love to imagine the story(ies) that led to this association....)
The beautiful Begijnofbuurt in Amsterdam... I've heard rooms in the houses are now rented to single women, but cannot confirm.
March 9, 2024 at 7:53 PM
The beautiful Begijnofbuurt in Amsterdam... I've heard rooms in the houses are now rented to single women, but cannot confirm.
Every year my office releases an annual report that highlights our digitization activities around the Smithsonian. I am so lucky to have this team of creative individuals. dpo.si.edu/sites/defaul...
February 7, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Every year my office releases an annual report that highlights our digitization activities around the Smithsonian. I am so lucky to have this team of creative individuals. dpo.si.edu/sites/defaul...
If you thought the piecing together & translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls was amazing, imagine the same here, but w/ carbonized scrolls that can't be unrolled.
"Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll."
"Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll."
October 14, 2023 at 1:43 AM
If you thought the piecing together & translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls was amazing, imagine the same here, but w/ carbonized scrolls that can't be unrolled.
"Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll."
"Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll."
Can we all agree that the sooner the National Park Service gets on this platform the better?
October 12, 2023 at 2:23 AM
Can we all agree that the sooner the National Park Service gets on this platform the better?