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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
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Lecture, News, Podcasts, Reports
|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 […]
New Report: "Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2010-2011"
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Reports
|The overview and links to the complete report are below. We e want to call your attention to a few useful resources that might be useful but could be overlooked. 1. Statistical Summaries For All 50 States and the District of Columbia are Available HTML (Separate Document For Each State and DC) PDF (One PDF […]
New Report from Publishing Research Consortium: "Journal Article Mining: A Research Study into Practices, Policies, Plans. . . and Promises"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Interviews, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Title: “Journal Article Mining: A Research study into Practices, Policies, Plans. . . and Promises” Authors: by Eefke Smit, STM and Maurits van der Graaf. Source: Publishers Research Council This is a study commissioned by PRC which offers the first comprehensive look at what publishers and others are doing, and plan to do, in both […]
How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, News, Preservation, Profiles, Video Recordings
|How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools The nation’s most precious document, the Declaration of Independence, has a storied history surrounding its conservation. Although it has faded badly due to poor preservation techniques during the 19th century, it is still available for viewing in the rotunda of the National […]
Title: “Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources. Authors: Nancy L. Maron and Matthew Loy From News Release: Ithaka S+R, funded by the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), released today “Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources.” This report, written by Nancy L. Maron and […]
Web Design: A Look at the "Digital Archaeology" Exhibition Taking Place in NYC
Digital Preservation, Interviews, News, Preservation, Profiles
|From a Post on the StoryWorldWide.com Web Site: Digital Archaeology, the exhibition that charts the disruptive moments of web design and celebrates the characters behind its radical evolution is to be shown in New York for the first time in June as a key part of Internet Week. Originally debuting at Internet Week Europe in […]
New Report From National Library of France: "Internet Archive: Forecast Study About Perceptions and Expectations of Potential Users"
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From an Overview Paragraph: Since 2006, the BnF (National Library of France) has been responsible for the legal deposit of internet resources. Automatic harvesting is performed 24 hours a day by the digital legal deposit service. Resources collected are available on a trial basis at the Research Library. During this experimental phase, it was important […]
HathiTrust Publishes May 2011 Activities Update
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|Direct to Update ||| A PDF Version is Also Available A Few Highlights from the Report: “HathiTrust completed ingest of more than 47,000 volumes contributed by the University of Virginia in May.” “In May, the Communications Working Group continued planning for a HathiTrust Facebook presence, and made progress on the development of new HathiTrust promotional […]