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The Library of Congress Posts Update and Releases Report About What’s Going On With Their Twitter Archive
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Update Digital Preservation expert and Founder of LOCKSS, Dr. David Rosenthal offer some analysis of the amount of data the archive contains. Hat Tip: @lorcand — The Library of Congress is out with a blog post and white paper (embedded below) that provides info about the complete archive of tweets that Twitter donated to The […]
Digitization Projects: Stanford Releases Hundreds of Oral History Interviews Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, News, Preservation, Profiles
|From Stanford University Library ReMix Newsletter: Accessible only at Special Collections for decades, hundreds of oral history interviews are now available online as a result of the work of the University Archives and Stanford Media Preservation Lab. The capturing of Stanford oral histories began in earnest in 1978 with the Stanford Oral History Project (now […]
From the AP (via AJC): They are among France’s darkest days: Police dragged over 13,000 Jews from their homes, confined them in a Paris cycling stadium with little food or water, and then deported them to their deaths in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. But even in France, one of the most brazen collaborations between […]
Georgia: Home Movie in U. of Georgia Library May Be State’s Oldest Film Images
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Libraries, News, Video Recordings
|From the Athens Banner-Herald: Archivists at the University of Georgia believe they have found the earliest movie footage shot in the state, part of a collection of home movies and other films that belonged to the wealthy owners of a Thomasville plantation. “We think it’s not just the earliest home movie shot in Georgia, but […]
Western Michigan University Scheduled to Break Ground For New Archives Facility Next Week
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Lecture, Libraries, News
|From WMU: After years of planning and fundraising, Western Michigan University will break ground at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, July 19, for a facility that will house the University’s archives as well as historical records for all of Southwest Michigan. The 16,000-square-foot, $8.3 million Legacy Collections Center, officially part of University Libraries, will be built on […]
Assessment Leads to Strategic New Directions for OAC (Online Archive of California) and Calisphere
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|From the California Digital Library: The CDL has recently completed a multi-faceted assessment of the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere, in order to plan for the continued development of these platforms–especially as relates to hosting and providing access to digitized special collections materials. [Clip] The assessment uncovered immensely valuable information about the OAC […]
Article: Shaking Up Israel’s National Archives (Interview with Israel’s Chief Archivist)
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Profiles, Reports
|In a New Article From Tablet Magazine: The state archives are home to everything from top-secret government deliberations to countless cultural artifacts to, apparently, footage of pre-state soccer matches. All this and more will soon become daily Internet fodder, as the blog begins releasing much of this hitherto inaccessible information online. To find out more […]
From a NARA News Release: The National Archives’ George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum has launched its newly designed website: www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu. The website is hosted by Southern Methodist University (SMU), the site of the Library’s future facility and an important partner for the institution. While the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is […]
USC Shoah Foundation Completes Preservation/Digitization of Nearly 52,000 Holocaust Testimonies
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|From the USC Shoah Foundation (via PR Newswire): The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has completed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project to digitally preserve the video interviews in its Visual History Archive. The archive contains testimony from nearly 52,000 Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. [Clip] The Institute recorded the testimonies on 235,005 Betacam SP videotapes between 1994 […]
The following comments (and more) appear in a Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia) column by Dave Obee. Brewster and his wife were visiting Vancouver Island earlier this week. We 100% agree with what Obee has to say. From a Times Colonist Column: Brewster Kahle is the type of person we all should admire – he’s […]