MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Minnesota: "Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Receives $3 Million Grant"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Resources
|From the St. Cloud Times: The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) recently received a $3 million grant from the Arcadia Fund of London for the digitization, archiving and cataloging of newly identified endangered manuscript collections for five years. The funding, which was announced today, will also make the materials digitized by the library at […]
Google News & New Resources Roundup (Late August/Early September 2011)
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Resources, Roundup
|Google Roundup (Late August/Early September 2011) Note: Items in this roundup were published between August 16, 2011 and September 6, 2011. 1. [Oops!]: “Closed, Says Google, but Shops’ Signs Say Open” (via NY Times) 2. See Also: Google Aims to Close Google Maps Loophole (via PC World) 3. “Google Customer Support Surprise: Phone Reps Handling […]
New e-Print: "Beyond the Boundaries of Open, Closed and Pirate Archives: Lessons from a Hybrid Approach"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News
|A new e-Print via arXiv Full Text: “Beyond the Boundaries of Open, Closed and Pirate Archives: Lessons from a Hybrid Approach” (44 Pages; PDF) Authors: Prodromos Tsiavos (London School of Economics, UK), Petros Stefaneas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) The creation of open archives i.e. archives where access is regulated by open licensing models (content, […]
Archives.com Begins Providing Access to Some U.S. Census Data & Pledges Money For More Digitization
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Resources
|From an <a href=”http://www.archives.com/blog/press/archivescom-adds-the-us-census.html”>Archives.com Blog Post:</a> Today, Archives.com announces the addition of the U.S. Federal Census, the single most valuable collection of U.S. historical records. The U.S. Census collections were made available by FamilySearch International, the world’s largest genealogy organization, as part of a joint effort to introduce more records to family historians worldwide. In […]
Info Industry: SAE Digital Library Adds eBooks and EBSCO Adds Adam Matthew Group Adds Primary Source Collections
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing
|1. Mobile: All Oxford Journals (More than 250 From Oxford U. Press) Are Now Mobile-Optimized Powered by Highwire Press platform. 1. Engineering: SAE’s Digital Library Database is Now Home to 117 Full Text eBooks 2. History: EBSCO Publishing and the Adam Matthew Group Adds Primary Source Collections to EBSCO Discovery Service 3. Digital Preservation: eJournals: […]
Six announcements from Portico today announcing new e-journal preservation agreements. 1. Modern Humanities Research Association to preserve e-journals with Portico 2. Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University to preserve e-journal with Portico 3. Evolutionary Psychology to preserve e-journal with Portico 4. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies to preserve e-journal with Portico 5. […]
From a News Release: George Eastman House the world’s oldest photography museum founded in 1947 on the estate of Kodak founder George Eastman, and Clickworker, an innovator in the global crowdsourcing and workforce solutions space, announce the kick-off of a large-scale, iconic crowdsourcing project. The project involves the photo-tagging and cataloging of more than 400,000 […]
Via Dr. David Weinberger’s Joho the Blog: Thanks to the persistence of Javier Ruiz of the British Open Rights Group, you can now read [pdf] the contract between the British Library and Google Books. Google has shrouded its book digitization contracts in non-disclosures wrapped in lead sheathing that is then buried in collapsed portions of […]
Yale Partners with the National Library of Korea to Digitize Rare Books and Manuscripts
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Resources
|From the Yale U. Public Affairs Office: Yale University’s East Asia and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript libraries have undertaken a collaborative project with The National Library of Korea to digitize Yale’s holdings of rare Korean works, totaling 140 volumes. This unique group of books and manuscripts includes religious, secular, and official publications from the […]
From the Center for Jewish History in New York City: During World War II with the Nazi rise to power, more than 2,000 titles from the Wissenschaft des Judentums or Science of Judaism texts housed at the Frankfurt Library in Germany were either destroyed or dispersed. More than half of the lost titles, cataloged at […]