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Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Opens its New Preservation Storage Facility
From LAC: Library and Archives Canada (LAC) celebrated today the opening of its new state-of-the-art Preservation Storage Facility in Gatineau, Quebec. A plaque was unveiled and guests toured the site at the event, which was attended by, among others, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage; the Honourable Mona Fortier, President of the Treasury […]
Roundup: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Publishes 2021 Annual Report; One Third of Iceland’s Population Reads a Book Every Day; & More News Headlines
Archives NZ Reinstates Online Search Tool After Data Mishap (via RNZ) One Third of Iceland’s Population Reads a Book Every Day (via Iceland Monitor) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Publishes 2021 Annual Report JISC Releases 2021-2022 Annual Review
NARA: New National Archives Catalog Debuts
From a NARA Announcement: A new, modernized National Archives Catalog launched online today (11/22). The new Catalog’s focus on scalability will allow the agency to reach its goal to get 500 million digitized pages in the Catalog by September 202 The fully redesigned online public access Catalog makes accessing the agency’s holdings more intuitive for the […]
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NARA to Award $1.9 Million for Historical Records Projects
From the National Archives and Records Administration: Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall approved 31 proposals totaling $1,904,539 in National Archives awards for projects in 25 states and the District of Columbia, pending appropriations of a final budget for FY 2023. The National Archives grants program is carried out with the advice […]
“Over 240,000 Historic Arkansas Newspaper Pages Digitized for Chronicling America Project”
From the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Employees of the State Archives have digitized over 240,000 pages of historic newspapers for the Chronicling America project. So far, select years of 74 Arkansas newspaper titles have been digitized, along with the newspaper of a “free love colony” that moved from Missouri to Arkansas in 1918 and published […]
Now Available Online: National Archives at Riverside Collaborates with California Universities to Digitize Chinese Heritage Records
From a NARA News Report More than 2,200 Chinese Exclusion Act case files held by the National Archives at Riverside are now available online in the National Archives Catalog, thanks to a collaboration with the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California . The project began in 2018 after a fortuitous meeting at a local American Archives Month event. Shortly […]
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Journal Article: “Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections”
The article linked below was recently published by RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. Title Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections Authors Lynne M. ThomasUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Source RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage Vol 23, No 2 […]
Joy Harjo’s “Living Nations, Living Words” Poet Laureate Project Honored By Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
From the Library of Congress: The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums has presented one of its Guardians of Culture and Lifeways International Awards to the Library of Congress and former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo for “Living Nations, Living Words,” Harjo’s signature project as the nation’s first Native American poet laureate between 2019 […]
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Digital Collections: National Library of Norway Releases Thousands of Intimate Photographs of Jazz Greats
From Jazzed: The Norwegian music journalist Randi Hultin (1926–2000) opened her home to many of the great jazz legends. She documented her life in the company of artists such as John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Count Basie in the form of tens of thousands of photographs – pictures which are now held in the National […]
“Listening Session on OSTP Policy Guidance: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research”; “Wikipedia Editors Get Easier Access to Taylor & Francis Journals in Renewed Agreement”; and More Headlines
JISC Releases Carbon Reduction Plan LinkedIn Prevails in 6-year Lawsuit Against Data Scraper (via IAPP) Listening Session on OSTP Policy Guidance: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research (via ARL) Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) Releases New Front-End Princeton University: Center For Information Technology Policy Launches the Digital Witness Lab Wikipedia Editors […]
