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New Report: “Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project ”
The report and additional materials linked below were recently published online by OCLC Research. Title Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project Authors Chela Scott Weber Senior Program Officer Itza A. Carbajal Associate Researcher Lesley A. Langa Associate Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway Executive Director, Research Brooke Doyle Senior Project Coordinator […]
Newspapers: “Dig Into History: Search the More Than 140 Years of Yale Daily News Now Online”
From the Yale Library: The library’s digital archive of Yale Daily News (YDN)—the nation’s oldest continuously published college daily—has expanded to include 3,306 more issues than it had just two years ago. There are now approximately 23,929 issues of YDN available in digital format—including occasional special issues and supplements—that users can search, view, and download in PDF […]
Digital Collections: Library of Congress Completes Digitization of Yongle Encyclopedia, Largest Reference Work of Pre-Modern Era
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has completed a yearslong effort to digitize the Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian 永樂大典), the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library’s collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world […]
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New Online: Library of Congress Adds 39 Early Volumes to Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book Digital Collection
From The Library of Congress: This week we’re excited to announce that the Library of Congress has added 39 additional volumes to our Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book Digital Collection! The latest batch of digitized volumes span from the first issue in 1859 to 1879, aside from a few months that are still in progress. They join the […]
Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) Viral Books Unbanned Initiative Celebrates New Milestone During National Library Week; Teens In All 50 States Checked Out 100,000 Books from Brooklyn Public Library’s Digital Collection Over Last Year
Here’s the Full Text of a Brooklyn Public Library Announcement: Celebrating National Library Week, Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) announced a new milestone today in the fight against censorship and book banning: more than 6000 young people, ages 13 to 21, have applied for a free BPL library card over the last year, providing them access […]
Report From Canada: “Catching Up On Open Access”
From a University Affairs article by Brian Owens: The days of the traditional, subscription-based scholarly journal seem to be numbered. Around the world, research funders are adopting ever-more expansive policies requiring the researchers they fund to make the results of their work freely accessible to the public. Canada, once a leader in this area, risks […]
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NEH Awards West Virginia University Libraries Funds to Expand Online Portal for Congressional Archives
From a WVU Announcement: West Virginia University Libraries has received a nearly $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand the American Congress Digital Archives Portal, the first-ever online portal bringing together congressional archives from repositories throughout the United States. “The personal papers of members of Congress are vitally important for understanding Congress as an […]
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Announces $35.63 Million for 258 Humanities Projects Nationwide
From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $35.63 million in grants for 258 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a documentary on the life and legacy of African American intellectual W.E.B. DuBois; enable the digitization of the personal papers of former members […]
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The Gagarin Center at Bard College and PEN America Establish Russian Independent Media Archive
From Bard College: The Gagarin Center at Bard College is partnering with PEN America to launch the Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA), a project that aims to preserve the last two decades of independent Russian journalism, an irreplaceable historical record at risk of erasure as Russian media outlets not aligned with the regime of President Vladimir Putin are shuttered and […]
New Article: “An Initial Scholarly AI Taxonomy”
The article linked to below was published today by Upstream, a Force11 publication. It was written by Adam Hyde (Coko Foundation), John Chodhacki (University of California Curation Center (UC3) at California Digital Library), and Paul Shannon. DOI: 10.54900/6p6re-xyj61 From the Article: Although advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have been unfolding for over decades, the progress […]
