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Research Tools: “Chicago History Comes Alive Through Interactive Databases”
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, News, Profiles
|From Northwestern University: When Northwestern University’s Leigh Bienen launched Homicide in Chicago,1870-1930 in 2004, the website crashed the School of Communication’s servers the first weekend it went live. The site had more than 70,000 visitors in its first few days, following coverage in the Chicago Sun-Times. The interactive site now has logged more than 1.5 million visitors over the […]
Digital Collections: University of Pennsylvania Libraries Will Provide Comprehensive Access to American Institute of Indian Studies Image Collection, Initial Batch of Images Now Available Online
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications
|From Penn Libraries: The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has launched a project to make the full American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Image Collection available and discoverable online. The collection documents a range of Indian art through black and white photography, with an emphasis on premodern temple architecture and sculpture. An initial batch of 2,300 images—featuring […]
Digital Collections: Georgia State University Library Completes Grant Making Recordings, Speeches, and More From The Southern Labor Archives Audio Collection Digitally Accessible
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From the Georgia State University Library: Georgia State University Library has completed a $23,945 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support digitizing audio holdings in the 20th and 21st century Southern Labor Archives. As a result of the project, 523 recordings that were once inaccessible due to their format and at […]
Library of Congress Awards Nearly $400,000 to Six Projects Highlighting Uses of Digital Collections
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From LC: The Library of Congress today announced that six awards totaling nearly $400,000 have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to Higher Education Institutions and Libraries, Archives and Museums. The program is part of the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative with support from the Mellon Foundation. The 2024 awardees will use these […]
Journal Article: “Quality Assessment of Research Comparisons in the Open Research Knowledge Graph: A Case Study”
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|The article linked below was published online today by JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science. Title Quality Assessment of Research Comparisons in the Open Research Knowledge Graph: A Case Study Authors Jennifer D’Souza TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Julia Evans TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Lars […]
Report: “British Library Restores Access to Online Collection Following Ransomware Attack”
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|From The Record: The British Library — the national library of the United Kingdom and an archive of millions of books and manuscripts — began restoring access to its online catalog on Monday following a ransomware attack last October. [Clip] The online system, for now, will be the only way to see the rarest books, […]
Ontario: “Librarians Propose Provincewide Digital Library”
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From Newmarket Today/The Trillium: Librarians are done keeping quiet. Speaking to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs for pre-budget consultations in Hamilton this week, stakeholders across Ontario called for a digital public library — envisioned as a provincewide online resource for job training, language upskilling, tutoring and homework help, and health information. To make it a reality, librarians asked for […]
NEH Announces $33.8 Million for 260 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $33.8 million in grants for 260 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants to support research for a cultural, political, and legal history of cancer in America that focuses on the Ames test for carcinogens; create a baccalaureate degree program […]
EveryLibrary Releases 2024 State-by-State “Legislation of Concern” Tracker; Bestselling Canadian Books of 2023; & More Headlines
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|AI Nvidia’s Newest Chips are Designed to Run AI at Home (via CNBC) OpenAI Posts Comments on NY Times Lawsuit Note: The OpenAI post includes a link from the phrase “library associations” to an October 2023 filing by the Library Copyright Alliance. Canada Bestselling Canadian Books of 2023 (via BookNet Canada) Internet Archive The Internet […]
Phase 1 Report: University of California (UC) Palace Project Team on “Investigating a Better UC Ebook Reading Experience”
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|From a California Digital Library/CDLINFO Post: The UC Palace Project Team completed their phase 1 investigation of the Palace ebook reading platform in summer 2023 and submitted a report to the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) in fall 2023. DOC endorsed the report recommendations at their December 5, 2023 meeting. The project team was charged […]