MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
“Digital Preservation Policies in University Libraries: A Content Analysis” (Honors Theses)
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation
The honors theses linked below was recently made available by the University of Southern Mississippi. Title Digital Preservation Policies in University Libraries: A Content Analysis (Honors Theses) Author Ramsey McManus Source via Aquila Digital Community (University of Southern Mississippi) May 2026 Abstract In an increasingly digital world, libraries continue to expand their digital collections. As […]
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IoI) Publishes Landscape Scan on “Sustaining the Commons in the AI Economy”
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, News, Open Access
From Invest in Open Infrastructure (IoI): As part of our Building Resilient Infrastructure through Dialogue, Growth, and Exchange (BRIDGE) project, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is pleased to release the first outcome of our research: a landscape scan of the challenges and strategies for bridging AI companies and open curated collections. Curated collections, such as digital […]
Chicago Public Library, Chicago Public Schools Expand Automatic Library Access to More Than 315,000 Students
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
From the City of Chicago: Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Public Library (CPL) are expanding access to diverse and rich digital library resources across the city through a new partnership called The 81 Club. Through this CPS-CPL partnership, the District’s more than 315,000 public school students are automatically registered and have digital access to the full resources […]
Final Report Available: Five University Libraries (UC Davis, Cornell, Ohio State, University of Michigan, and Rutgers) Collaborate on Mass Book Digitization Pilot Project
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
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
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
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
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
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, […]
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
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\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 […]
