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Final Report Available: Five University Libraries (UC Davis, Cornell, Ohio State, University of Michigan, and Rutgers) Collaborate on Mass Book Digitization Pilot Project
From a UC Davis Library Post: During 2023-2025, UC Davis, Cornell University, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, and Rutgers University coordinated to contribute scholarly content in two topic areas to the Google Books project. This content is then contributed to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The two topics, bees & insect pollinators and Puerto Rico, met a number […]
Digital Collections: Newly Digitized Papers Shed Light on WWII Internment
From the Stanford Report Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an “extraordinary collection” of letters and photographs that expand the historical record of wartime incarceration in the United States. The Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, comprising digital scans of correspondence, photographs, and related materials created and collected by Stanford University graduate Kazuyuki “Kaz” Takahashi and […]
New Data From OverDrive: Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2025 with Over 820 Million Checkouts and Over 1 Billion Minutes Streamed
From OverDrive: In 2025, libraries around the world continued to prove their essential role in connecting communities with stories, information, and entertainment, breaking new digital lending records in the process. As the need for flexible, on-demand access to books and media continued to grow, libraries expanded their digital collections to meet readers where they are, […]
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University of Missouri Libraries Adds Collection of World War II Posters to Digital Library
From the University of Missouri Libraries: 25, marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, which took place over six years between 1939 and 1945. In honor of the anniversary, the Digital Initiatives department began digitizing posters from the War Poster Collection housed in our libraries’ Special Collections. This collection offers a […]
Digital Collections: Now Available Online via the KC Library: Over 500,000 Photos From the Kansas City Star’s Historical Photo Archives
\From the Kansas City Star (via the Kansas City Public Library): Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of KCStarPhotos.org, a new project from the Kansas City Public Library and The Kansas City Star. It’s a free website with a database of hundreds of thousands of images from The Star’s archives of the pre-digital era of photography. It’s […]
Research Paper: Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective Across Age Groups
The article linked below was recently made available (full text) by the ACM Digital Library. Title Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective Across Age Groups Authors Chen He University of Helsinki Michiel Spape University of Macau Khadijatul Kobra University of Helsinki Robin Welsch University of Helsinki Giulio Jacucci University of Helsinki Source […]
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Report: OpenAI Sued For Infringing OverDrive’s ‘Sora’ Trademark
From Reuters: Digital library app maker OverDrive has sued OpenAI in Ohio federal court, alleging that the artificial intelligence startup’s Sora video-generation app violates its trademark rights in the “Sora” name. OverDrive said in a lawsuit, filed on Wednesday that OpenAI’s app will cause consumer confusion with its own Sora app, which provides e-books and […]
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Goes Live on TIND ILS for Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR)
From a TIND Release: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has launched its new Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR) on the TIND ILS platform, completing the second of three TIND systems now in production at CRL. The new PAPR serves as a modern, hosted data lake, replacing CRL’s locally built infrastructure with a scalable environment for […]
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Report: “They Hold These Truths: Minnesota’s Archive of Endangered National Park Signs Tops 11,000 and Counting”
From The Minnesota Star-Tribune: Historians and librarians at the University of Minnesota launched Save Our Signs this summer. There is no central database of national park signs, so they asked the public to send in their own photos from the parks, historic sites, monuments, memorials, battlefields, seashores that make up the National Park Service. “This […]
Digital Collections: Save Our Signs Archive Containing Over 10,000 Photos of National Park Service (NPS) Interpretive Materials Launches Online
The Save Our Sign Archive went live today. The full text of the launch announcement follows below. The Save Our Signs project (SOS), a community-driven effort to preserve National Park Service (NPS) interpretive materials before they are removed from public view, is proud to announce the launch of the Save Our Signs Archive, a collection […]
