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University of Missouri Libraries Adds Collection of World War II Posters to Digital Library
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
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
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
\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 […]
Rare Photos of Rosa Parks Discovered in the Archives of Stanford University Libraries
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
From Stanford Report: Photographs of civil rights activist Rosa Parks were recently made public after they were discovered in the archives of Stanford University Libraries. Taken during the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, the images reveal a side of Parks rarely shown to the public. After taking the photos, late photographer Matt Herron […]
New Report From US GAO: Public Libraries: Many Buildings are Reported to Be in Poor Condition, with Increasing Deferred Maintenance
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
The report linked below was published today by the US Government Accountability Office (US GAO). From the Report: Public libraries serve as cornerstones of many communities. But aging and outdated buildings can make it hard for libraries to meet increasing expectations to provide access to programming, technology, emergency services, and voting sites—in addition to books. […]
The article linked below was recently published by Insights. Title The Importance of Inclusive and Balanced Collections in Libraries and Archives Author Gali Halevi CLOCKSS Source Insights Vol. 38, 2025 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.701 Abstract This article examines the differences in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts between library collection development and archival practices, highlighting the unique […]
Harvard Law School Library Releases First Complete Set of Digitized Nuremberg Trials Records
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, School Libraries
From Harvard Law School Beginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/. On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the first trial on November 20, 1945, researchers, scholars, […]
New Journal Article: “Archive Workers’ Information Needs and How Their Expert Knowledge Influences Information Searching and Collection Curation: An Interview Study”
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The article (full text) linked below was recently published by Information Research. Title Archive Workers’ Information Needs and How Their Expert Knowledge Influences Information Searching and Collection Curation: An Interview Study Authors Nils Pharo Oslo Metropolitan University Pia BorlundOslo Oslo Metropolitan University Ying-Hsang Liu Uppsala University, Sweden Source Information Research an International Electronic Journal 30(3), […]
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Goes Live on TIND ILS for Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR)
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports
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 […]
Report: “‘People Have Had to Move House’: Inside the British Library, Two Years on From Devastating Cyber Attack”
| Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
From The Independent: Home to more than 170 million items, including the Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the largest and most impressive book collections in the world. But in October 2023, a major cyber attack plunged it into chaos, shutting down its digital systems and resulting in the leaking of staff details […]
UBC Library Digitizes William Shakespeare’s Second Folio
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
From a UBC Library Announcement: While William Shakespeare’s First Folio was much celebrated when it arrived at UBC in 2021, did you know that UBC Library also has a Second Folio of Shakespeare’s works? The Second Folio, digitized by UBC Library’s Digitization Centre, is now publicly accessible through Open Collections. Published in 1632, the Second Folio is the […]
