Illinois: “State Archives Share Digitized Data”
From the Danville Commercial-News:
State archives have been cataloguing their historical materials and converting them to a digital format and making them available to everyone on the Internet.
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For example, Illinois’ digital archives at mentions three websites, but in actuality they have been consolidated into two: the Illinois State Archives (and its depositories around the state, called IRAD) and the Illinois State Library.
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In addition to the data maintained at seven Illinois universities as part of the Illinois Repository Archives Depository (IRAD) system, such institutions have their own collections which are being digitized and made available on the Internet.
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Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Libraries, News, Open Access
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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