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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 […]
National Library of Medicine Releases Digital Library of American Medical Books Dating Back to 1690
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Preservation, Resources
|From an NLM Announcement: The National Library of Medicine announces the release of “Medicine in the Americas.” A digital resource encompassing over 300 early American printed books, Medicine in the Americas makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the […]
From The London Evening Standard: Details of England‘s national heritage from protected shipwrecks to listed lamp-posts are being made easily available to the public for the first time with a new online database. English Heritage today [Monday] launched the National Heritage List for England which it claimed was “a significant milestone towards achieving better understanding […]
CRL and California Digital Library to Develop Print Archives Preservation Registry
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From a Center for Research Libraries Announcement: CRL is working with the California Digital Library to develop a Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR). PAPR will support research library and consortial efforts to archive and manage critical print serial collections in an informed and cost-effective manner. PAPR will feature a searchable database of information about current print […]
More Than 80 Items/Collections Nominated to Join UNESCO's Memory of the World Register List for Documentary Collections
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From the UN: More than 80 unique documentary items and collections from around the world have been nominated for inscription this year on the Memory of the World Register List run by the United Nations culture agency in an effort to promote and preserve them through digitization. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization […]
New Podcast in the "Conversations about Digital Preservation" Series from NDIIPP
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Podcasts, Preservation
|New from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program / Library of Congress Mike Ashenfelder and Bill Lefurgy, from the Library of Congress talk with Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist of Maryland. The podcast was recorded last month and runs 62 minutes. Summary: Dr. Papenfuse discusses his career, his early success with records databases, creating […]
The May/June 2011 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Reports, Resources
|Direct to Complete Table of Contents Along with the Featured Collection, Clips and Pointers and other material in News and Events section, here are the new articles and an editorial in in D-Lib (May/June 2011; Volume 17, Number 5/6) Now and Into the Future By Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Institutional Repositories and […]
"U. of California Libraries Must Increase Sharing to Weather Cuts" & Full Text of Library Planning Task Force Interim Report
Academic Libraries, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation
|From a UC Newsroom Report: The University of California’s library system must expand its shared library services to ease the impact of an upcoming budget cut of as much as 21 percent in the next six years, a UC-created task force says. To deal with these cuts, the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee’s […]
Event: June 5th In Richmond, CA: The Internet Archive Will Have an Open-House and Launch Their "Physical Archive" Facility
Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|At the end of January we shared a link to a story about the Internet Archive purchasing a 45,000-square-foot building and the large yard next door at 2512 and 2514 Florida Ave. in Richmond, CA. If you’re in the SF Bay Area on Sunday, June 5th you might want to head to Richmond (about 30 […]