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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 […]
Research Paper: Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective Across Age Groups
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
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 […]
Report: OpenAI Sued For Infringing OverDrive’s ‘Sora’ Trademark
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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
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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 […]
New Episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” Podcast Features a Conversation with Internet Archive Founder and Digital Librarian Brewster Kahle
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Podcasts
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): A passionate advocate for public internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his life intent on a singular focus: providing universal access to all knowledge. The Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996, now preserves 99+ petabytes of data – the books, Web pages, music, television, […]
Report: The HBCU Digital Library Trust Preserves History
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation
From the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative: Launched in 2023, the HBCU Digital Library Trust is on a mission to reach the next generation of students, researchers, and information seekers through one digital platform with materials showcasing the history of Black academia in the United States post-emancipation. Funded by the Harvard & the Legacy of […]
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Adds Nearly 500 Images to Its Online Collection of High-Resolution Lincoln Pictures
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From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum: The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added nearly 500 images to its online collection of high-resolution Lincoln pictures, including photos of Lincoln’s assassin, the nation grieving Lincoln’s death and the places he lived throughout his life. The ALPLM’s “Picturing Lincoln” collection now offers 1,485 photos, […]
