MORE 'PRESERVATION' POSTS
The National Jukebox launch announcement was made today by the Librarian of Congress, James Billington and singer/songwriter, Harry Connick, Jr. The National Jukebox is Now Live at: http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/ Fast Facts: At Launch Jukebox Contains 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. “Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record […]
“Preserving News in the Digital Environment” was recently released by the Center for Research Libraries and the LC Office of Strategic Initiatives From a Summary: For the past half-century, CRL and the Library of Congress together have played an important role in preserving newspapers for scholarly research. Their combined holdings of U.S. and foreign newspapers […]
From an Article in the LA Times: This is the Library of Congress’ $250-million Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, a 45-acre vault and state-of-the-art preservation and restoration facility on Virginia’s Mt. Pony. It’s here that a recent donation from Universal Music Group, nearly a quarter-million master recordings by musicians including Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and […]
Direct to Full Text (2 pages; PDF) Source: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Articles Include: Personal Archiving Day 2011: A Big Hit Report About Newspaper Archive Summit (More Here) New CRL Report: Digital Newspaper Production Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories
From the NISO News Release: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and its Architecture Committee are pleased to announce the creation of a Special Interest Group focused on E-books (the NISO E-book SIG). Simultaneous with the formation of the group, NISO is issuing a call for participation in the E-book SIG and its associated monitoring […]
From Portico: As of today, participants in the Portico E-Journal Preservation Service will have access to 14 volumes of Journal of Pharmacy Teaching. The title was formerly published by Informa Healthcare and ceased publication in 2008. Journal of Pharmacy Teaching is no longer available through any online platform; therefore, this content has “triggered” and is […]
Digitization Projects: "UCLA Will Catalog a Noted Conservationist's Collection"
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Preservation, Resources
|From an LA Times Article: Considered to be the mother of the California Coastal Zone Conservation Act of 1972, Ellen Stern Harris was an environmental activist long before the avocation became fashionable. The school plans to digitize her vast and chaotic archive to make it available online to scholars and others. [Clip] “The UCLA Library […]
From CNET Australia: Australian media preservation and digitisation company DAMsmart is responsible for processing thousands and thousands of hours of culturally significant footage. Here’s a glimpse at some of the tech used behind the scenes at its Canberra office. The “virtual tour” consists of nine images.
Digital Archiving: "A Memory of Webs Past"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Maps, Preservation, Publishing, Resources
|From an IEEE Spectrum Article by Ariel Bleicher: Since the ancient Sumerians compiled the first collections of inscribed clay tablets, many peoples have attempted to preserve documents, ephemera, and even the flotsam of their political, economic, and social tides. But perhaps no nation today tackles this endeavor as thoroughly as France, one of the few […]
From a Guest Post by on the NARAtions Blog by Aimee Primeaux, Preservation Program Officer at the National Archives: Preservation is at the heart of what we do here at NARA: Preservation Programs has joined forces with SAA’s Preservation Section to create an e-poster in recognition of Preservation Week. This poster outlines basic strategies to […]