MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Google Catalogs (web version) debuted in December, 2001 and was available until early 2009. It taught the company a lot about mass digitization (scanning, readability, how to handle documents, etc.) that they have applied to book digitization. For its time, it was very cool. Here’s the Google Catalogs homepage from December 17, 2001 and the […]
ARL Appoints Judy Ruttenberg to Lead Transforming Research Libraries Program
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Special Libraries
|From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Judy F. Ruttenberg as Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries (TRL). Ruttenberg is currently Program Officer for Collections at the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), a collaborative organization of Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and the University of […]
Roundup: A Selection of Papers to Be Presented at the IFLA (World Library and Information Congress) Next Week
Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Public Libraries, Reports, Roundup, School Libraries
|The World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA* General Conference and Assembly takes place next week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. For the past month we’ve been selecting a few of the papers that will be delivered at the conference that we think will be of interest to INFOdocket readers. There are many more […]
Digitization Projects: "ProQuest Uncovers More Treasures from European Rare Book Libraries"
Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|From ProQuest: Debuting now are the first installment of digitized books from the National Library of the Netherlands and further content from the National Central Library of Florence. The number of digitized books — now more than 6,500 — will grow rapidly throughout the balance of 2011 and into 2012 as more libraries join the […]
Digitization Projects: "Digitizing Detroit's History at the Burton Historical Collection"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Public Libraries, Resources
|From Model D: One of the state’s largest repositories for manuscripts, the Burton Historical Collection is a treasure trove for Detroit historical explorers. The collection dates back to the city’s founding in the late 17th century, and includes 12 million pieces of information. Every historical record for the City of Detroit and Wayne County is […]
The column was written by Kari Kraus, an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies and the English department at the University of Maryland. From the Column: Perhaps the most impressive effort to curate digital information is taking place in the realm of video games. In the face of negligence from the game industry, […]
The August Issue of the NDIIPP Digital Preservation Newsletter is Now Online
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Resources
|Direct to Newsletter (2 pages; PDF) Articles in this Issue Include: Making It Work: A recap of the July 2011 NDSA/NDIIPP Partners Meeting A compilation of blog posts on “The Signal” about Library of Congress web archiving projects, processes and data management A summary of the Uniform Law Commission’s approval of the Uniform Electronic Legal […]
"Is Vogue planning a 119-year digital archive?"
Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Publishing
|From the Los Angeles Times: Does Vogue magazine have a digital archive in the works — one would stretch all the way back to its original 1892 issue? Rumors say that’s exactly what the long-lived fashion magazine is up to. The blog Fashionista reads the tea leaves: Vogue editor Anna Wintour attending the Webbys in […]
National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $40 Million in Grants, Libraries are Among the Recipients
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries
|This is a follow-up to a post from last week about funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for start-up projects and institutes. Today, a list of ALL of 249 projects (in several categories) receiving funding from NEH during this funding cycle. A number of libraries are listed as well as many digitization projects […]
Digitization Project: Get Access To the Earliest Medieval Map of Britain: Digital Gough Map Launched
|From the Bodleian Library at Oxford University: A fifteen-month research project of the earliest surviving geographically recognizable map of Great Britain, known as the Gough Map, provides some revealing insights into one of the most enigmatic cartographic pieces from the Bodleian collections. The findings are recorded on a newly-launched website www.goughmap.org. The fifteen-month AHRC-funded [Arts and […]