MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Internet Archive Canada Must Let 75% of Its Workforce Go
Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Some unfortunate news to begin the weekend. Let’s hope new funding for IA Canada will allow the program to cancel the need to let workers go or if the staff decrease does happen proper funding returns ASAP. From a Toronto Star Article: If they had a million dollars, they’d buy more time. But a vast […]
Digitization Projects: "Google, Kenya Digitise Parliament Records"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access, Resources
|From IT News Africa: Kenyans now have free online access to debates from the Hansards, a collection of debates that date back to the pre-independence Legislative Council. The earliest edition of the Hansard indexed is the Report of the Fourth Session of the Debates for the Legislative Council, dated November 24, 1959. Until currently, these […]
Digitization: "U. of Delaware Leads National Project to Create Digital Archive of Early American Samplers"
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Resources
|From UDaily: Proudly displaying numerals and ABCs, scenes of faith and farm life, Bible verses and witticisms, the samplers embroidered by girls in colonial America not only brightened the home, but also shone the light of literacy into the needleworkers’ young lives. To bring these historic American treasures to the public eye, the University of […]
Digitization: U. of Arizona Libraries' Special Collections Completes Work on a New Digital Collection and Now Available Online
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
|From UANews.org: The Jack Sheaffer Photograph Digital Collection, which spans three decades of southern Arizona’s history, is now available online via the UA’s Special Collections. Jack Sheaffer’s 1950-1970s-era images illustrate Tucson and southern Arizona’s history during a time of explosive growth. The University of Arizona’s Special Collections, which regularly digitizes selections from its holdings to […]
Digitization Projects: Bancroft Library to Expand Documentation of Japanese Americans' World War II
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Resources
|From a University of California, Berkeley, Announcement: The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received two grants from the U.S. National Park Service to expand its efforts documenting the World War II era experiences of Japanese Americans. A $50,000 grant will underwrite work by The Bancroft’s Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) to […]
New Research Paper: "How Much of the Web is Archived?"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Preservation, Resources
|“How Much of the Web is Archived?” (3 pages; PDF) by Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson Presented at JCDL 2011 Earlier This Month From a Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group (Old Dominion University) Blog Post: There are many questions to ask about web archiving […]
LOCKSS Alliance Libraries Preserve 11,000 New Volumes In First Half Of 2011
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Publishing
|From the LOCKSS Website: In the first six months of 2011, participating LOCKSS Program libraries preserved content from major partner publishers such as PNAS, Springer, Emerald, and the JBJS. The LOCKSS Alliance provides a full management digital preservation program. Libraries use LOCKSS to build and preserve local collections for future scholars and publishers, thus separating […]
Statistics: "Daily Deluge of Digital Data Expected to Get Even Worse"
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|Resources From EMC.com (Sponsors of the Report) 1. Summary/News Release/Findings 2. Infographic: The Digital Universe Study 3. Infographic: Data Management Increase, Need for IT Workers From a San Francisco Chronicle/Bloomberg Article: A study released [on Monday] quantifies how quickly the digital universe is expanding. The world’s information is doubling every two years, with an astonishing […]
Info Industry Briefs: News from Gale, Springer, OCLC, AAP, OverDrive, Ristech, B&T
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Gale Expands Three Acclaimed Digital Collections Springer launches SpringerReference.com Hat Tip/Thanks: Law Librarian Blog and No Shelf Required University of New Brunswick Libraries first in Canada to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services American Academy of Pediatrics Makes Content From Entire eBook Collection Available to Institutions With New Subscription Model OverDrive Adds Simultaneous […]
Just Released: 2011 Best Practices for Government Libraries Now Available
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Elsevier, Government Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Reports, Special Libraries
|We mentioned several few weeks ago that LexisNexis Info Pro Consultant Marie Kaddell was in the process of putting the 2011 edition of the publication together. She’s completed editing and assembling the report and earlier today it was published online and is now ready to download (286 pages; PDF; Free) Marie has done a superb […]