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Q&A Interview With Harvard University Librarian, Dr. Robert Darnton, About National Digital Public Library
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Here’s are three questions and answers from the complete interview that appears in the July 24, 2011 edition of the Boston Globe: IDEAS: So why not leave it to Google? DARNTON: It became clear, as Google’s project evolved, that it would be a commercial enterprise, and in fact an enterprise attached to a gigantic monopoly. […]
Title: “Seeking Synchronicity: Revelations and Recommendations for Virtual Reference” Authors: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., OCLC Senior Research Scientist, and Marie L. Radford, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey The purpose of this new publication,” Connaway said, “is to showcase several years’ and several hundred pages’ worth […]
Reminder: C-SPAN's Library of Congress Documentary Debuts on Monday, Watch Several Clips Now
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|UPDATE: The complete Library of Congress documentary including a text transcript is now available in the C-SPAN Video Library. Here’s a direct link to the program. The program will premiere at 8pm ET on July 18, 2011 on C-SPAN. The documentary runs 90 minutes and we re-air at 11pm ET/8pm ET. The program will likely […]
From the Federal Times: The federal government’s online Library of National Intelligence is one of the most important — and unheralded — parts of its effort to encourage information sharing and collaboration, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s deputy director said last week. In a June 23 interview with Federal Times, David Shedd said the library doesn’t […]
Digitization Projects: Bancroft Library to Expand Documentation of Japanese Americans' World War II
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Resources
|From a University of California, Berkeley, Announcement: The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received two grants from the U.S. National Park Service to expand its efforts documenting the World War II era experiences of Japanese Americans. A $50,000 grant will underwrite work by The Bancroft’s Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) to […]
From Sue Polanka’s No Shelf Required On Sunday I met with Matt Barnes, Vice President of Marketing, for ebrary. Matt and I discussed ebrary’s new patron driven acquisition model, searching ebrary content through the ProQuest interface, and the results of an ebrary mobility study on the need for downloadable ebooks. Matt shares a few of […]
Harvard Library Lab/The Podcast 003: The Digital Citation (David Weinberger Talks to Dan Cohen)
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|Direct to Podcast Blog Post and Link to Audio It’s the Dave & Dan show! David Weinberger from the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and Dan Cohen, the Co-Director of the Ray Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University discuss Zotero, the free bibliographic reference manager program that is being developed […]
U. of Michigan Library Users Will Soon Have Internet/Searchable Access to Thousands of Orphan Works in HathiTrust Database
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|From The University Record Online: U-M Library users soon will have access to digital versions of some of the thousands of orphan works held in common by the U-M Library and the HathiTrust Digital Library. Making these works available in HathiTrust will render them fully searchable, viewable, and accessible to U-M researchers wherever there is […]
UNESCO is Now Contributing Movies, Podcast, and Documents to iTunes University
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|From a UNESCO Announcement: By joining iTunes U, a dedicated area of the iTunes Store that offers free audio and video content from leading educational institutions, UNESCO is reinforcing its efforts to reach out to young men and women around the world, providing multilingual audio, visual and printed materials in education, sciences, culture and communication. […]
Digitization Projects: "Academics Create Digitized Archive of Korean War"
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Maps, News, Profiles, Resources
|From Yonhap News (South Korea): A group of South Korean and U.S. academics is working to revisit the Korean War six decades later in a tech-savvy way: by digitizing photos, maps, official documents and video footage of interviews with war veterans. [Clip] A formal Web site will be launched around October that will include a […]