MORE 'PRESERVATION' POSTS
From a White House Blog Post: As the President points out in this video, our government doesn’t need a website dedicated to foresters who play the fiddle. We also don’t need multiple sites dealing with invasive plants (here and here). And I‘m pretty sure the website dedicated to the Centennial of Flight can come down… particularly […]
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 […]
An In-Depth Interview: "Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians' Digital Library"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|Many questions about what HathiTrust does, how they do it, and how some use it, etc. they’re very likely going to be answered in this 2800 word interview published by Library Journal. Title: “Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians’ Digital Library” An Interview by Char Booth, Instruction Services Manager & E-Learning Librarian at the Claremont Colleges […]
News About LC's Twitter Archive: Gnip is Working With LC and Twitter to Provide Access to Tweets
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Preservation, Video Recordings
|For the first time in over a year we have a new piece of information about the planned LC/Twitter archive. Unfortunately, it doesn’t provide any dates about a possible launch, info about what’s needed to be a “qualified researcher”, and if the archive be accessible outside of an LC building. However, at this point we’re […]
New Online From IFLA: Full Text, Full Image of Preservation News (May 2011)
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Direct to Preservation News (40 pages; PDF) Issue #53. Free. This issue is of Preservation News is devoted to investigating and monitoring dust. Source: IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations)
Crowdsourcing; Future of Academic Libraries; Nat’l Approaches to Digital Preservation Discussed in New CNI Podcast
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, Podcasts, Preservation
|From the Coalition For Networked Information: In this 13 minute podcast, recorded June 1, 2011, CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott recaps the recent symposium “The Future of the Academic Library” held at McMaster Univ., and she also talks about some of the learning spaces within the University. CNI Director Clifford Lynch mentions a symposium […]
The Library of Congress Begins Publishing A Digital Preservation Blog
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing
|The name of the blog is, “The Signal” and can be accessed at: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/ Bill LeFurgy points out in the blog’s first that the new publication is comes from NDIIPP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program) Mr. LeFurgy goes on to say: Over the last 10 years we [NDIIPP] have built a national network […]
Link Rot Stats Using Pinboard Bookmarks
Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation, Reports
|Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of the wonderful, superb, and totally useful Pinboard social (if you want to be) bookmarking service that expressed a lot of love towards the library world last Christmas. In a post on the Pinpup blog Maciej Ceglowski uses a sampling bookmarks from the Pinboard site to take a look at […]
Andy Woodworth Profiled In "Burlington County Librarian Fights HarperCollins' Limits on e-Books"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Congrats Andy! From the Philadelphia Inquirer: “I felt that the policy was unreasonable, unfair, and contrary to the preservation of a library as an institution,” said Andy Woodworth, 34, a staff member at the Bordentown Library and a popular blogger in his field known for using sometimes harsh language. “It’s not a good practice that […]
A Joint Publication from the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Digital Curation Centre Included in This Issue What’s on, and What’s new Editorial: The Evolution of Research Data Policy – where are all the requirements leading? (Sarah Jones, HATII) One world: A Glance at Digital Preservation in Sweden (John Lindström & Prof Lennart Karlsson, Luleå […]