Some of the many company announcements out of ALA 2012. ProQuest Releases More Digitized NAACP Archives Material Ahead of Schedule 12 New Publishers Sign With OCLC To Provide Metadata and Full Text to Several WorldCat Services EBSCO Partners With Innovative Interfaces, SirsiDynix, and OCLC for Enhanced Discovery
Roundup: New Services and Digitized Content From ProQuest, OCLC, and EBSCO
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Library of Congress Acquires Large Collection of Recorded Interviews With Music Superstars
Filed by on June 18, 2012
From Today’s Announcement: More than 25 years ago, retired music executive Joe Smith accomplished a Herculean feat—he got more than 200 celebrated singers, musicians and industry icons to talk about their lives, music, experiences and contemporaries. The Library of Congress announced today that Smith has donated this treasure trove of unedited sound recordings to the [...]
Acquisitions: Library of Congress Will Acquire 4,000 Digital Images of California by Carol Highsmith
Filed by on June 15, 2012
From LC: The Library of Congress is acquiring 4,000 digital images documenting present-day California from distinguished photographer Carol M. Highsmith, who is traveling throughout the Golden State. Highsmith is photographing California during the next several months, in cities large and small, from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary celebration to El Centro’s vegetable fields [...]
National Library of Ireland: Digitized James Joyce Manuscripts Now Available Online
Filed by on June 15, 2012
From the NLI BLog: Over the past while the National Library of Ireland has been developing its enhanced catalogue and what better way to demonstrate its capabilities than with one of its most important collections, the James Joyce manuscripts. After a long time of planning, organising, cataloguing, digitising, building the technical infrastructure, testing and re-testing, [...]
Reference: National Archives (UK) and Wikimedia UK Make Digitized World War II Art Available Online
Filed by on June 13, 2012
Historic digitized art is being made available through a partnership between the National Archives (UK) and Wikimedia UK. The content is public domain. From Today’s Announcement: Hundreds of original wartime art works are going online following a partnership between The National Archives and Wikimedia UK. Photographed with a digitisation grant from Wikimedia UK, the collection [...]
Vatican Reports Discovery of Ancient Documents in Bavarian State Library
Filed by on June 12, 2012
From the AP: The Vatican newspaper reported Tuesday that 29 previously unpublished homilies said to be the work of one of the most important and prolific early church fathers have been discovered in a German library. The 3rd Century theologian Origen of Alexandria is considered to have played a critical role in the development of [...]
Historic Photography Project Dusted Off And Digitized By The NYPL
Filed by on June 8, 2012
From Gothamist: Recently the New York Public Library released over 40,000 images digitally from the Great Depression, including some shot in New York City, and over 1,000 that have not been published in other collections documenting the era. This week The NY Times explained how the photos finally got dusted off for their digital debut: [...]
European Medieval and WWI History Digital Archiving Project Gets €6.5m in EU Funding
Filed by on June 8, 2012
From Silicon Republic: Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is leading a four-year collaborative project called CENDARI to digitise geographically dispersed historical data from the medieval European era and from World War I so scholars, and eventually the public, will be able to access everything from illuminated medieval gospels to WWI propaganda using one online portal. The [...]
1940 U.S. Census Records from New York State Now Searchable by Name
Filed by on June 6, 2012
New York is the latest addition to states where 1940 U.S Census records are searchable by name via Ancestry.com. Records are free to search. Additional info/links in this blog post. Other states with records searchable by name (as of June 6, 2012): Delaware D.C. Maine Nevada But wait, that’s not all! More Records: New York [...]
Cool! Mapping Texts: Interactively Visualize Trends Found in 230 Years of Texas Newspapers
Filed by on June 2, 2012
From The Stanford Report: An all-consuming public interest in family, religion and football in modern rural Texas is just one of the cultural snapshots that can be culled from Mapping Texts, a new interactive database that generates graphical interpretations of language trends embedded in over 230,000 pages of Texas newspapers from the late 1820s through [...]
