MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Newspaper Digitization: NewsBank Plans to Digitize More Than 100 Years of The Daily Northwestern
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Resources, Special Libraries
|Here’s the story from Northwestern University located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston and Chicago, IL. Via The Daily Northwestern: Newsbank President and CEO Dan Jones approached Students Publishing Company, which publishes The Daily, about transforming the historical contents of The Daily dating back more than 100 years ago to a digital, searchable […]
Digitization: "Darwin Library, Now Online, Reveals Mind of 19th-Century Naturalist"
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|From a Chronicle of Higher Educational Article by Jie Jenny Zou: A portion of Charles Darwin’s vast scientific library—including handwritten notes that the 19-century English naturalist scribbled in the margins of his books—has been digitized and is available online. Readers can now get a firsthand look into the mind of the man behind the theory […]
Digitization Projects: "Academics Create Digitized Archive of Korean War"
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Maps, News, Profiles, Resources
|From Yonhap News (South Korea): A group of South Korean and U.S. academics is working to revisit the Korean War six decades later in a tech-savvy way: by digitizing photos, maps, official documents and video footage of interviews with war veterans. [Clip] A formal Web site will be launched around October that will include a […]
Info Industry Briefs from EBSCO, Boopsie, Serial Solutions, Macmillan, Lyrasis, and Portico
Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Elsevier, Management and Leadership, Publishing
|EBSCO and Elsevier Reach Agreement to Provide Full-Text Searching of All SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals & eBooks Boopsie Announces One-Click Access to OverDrive eBook Collection Serials Solutions Announces Development of New Web-Scale Management Solution LYRASIS Technology Services announces Discovery and Delivery Software expansion Milestones: One Thousand bX Customers: A Tribute to the Value of the Scholarly […]
Archives: Northern Michigan University Digitizes Thousands of Historic Mining Documents and Photos
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Reports, Resources
|From WLUC-TV: [Northern Michigan] University’s (NMU) Archiving Department recently scanned and posted over 70,000 documents relating to CCI’s (Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company) annual reports and lumber company. They also scanned over 500 maps and 200 photographs. It took the staff of five over a year to scan and touch up the documents. NMU acquired the records […]
New: Review More Than 60 "Statements of Interest" Submitted For Digital Public Library of America "Beta Sprint"
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Public Libraries, Resources
|Six weeks ago we posted info about the Digital Public Library of America [DPLA] project announcing plans for a “Beta Sprint” to “encourage the development of demonstrations of what such a service might look like.” The deadline to submit a “Statement of Interest” ended last week and now you can review the 60+ submissions on […]
Digitization Projects: "University of Iowa Puts 1860s Diaries Online"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
|From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: A collection of pocket-sized diaries from the 1860s has created an Internet sensation for the University of Iowa library. The diaries are part of the library’s Civil War collection employees have been working on for more than two years, digitizing pages in time for the war’s 150th anniversary in April. […]
Henry Kissinger Will Donate His Papers to Yale
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From the AP: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped steer Vietnam war policy, will donate his collection of some one million documents and objects covering his life as a diplomat, teacher and private citizen to Yale University. Yale President Richard Levin said Wednesday the collection will enhance Yale’s archives of 20th century […]
New HathiTrust Member: Lafayette College Becomes First Liberal Arts School to Join Organization
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing, Resources
|From a Lafayette College Announcement: Lafayette College [located in Easton, PA] has become the first liberal arts college to join HathiTrust, a cooperative of academic and research libraries seeking to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. “Lafayette’s membership in HathiTrust is an investment in the preservation of our own collections […]
For Insititutional Customers: "Over 100 Years of Scientific American Available Online"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, News, Publishing
|From a News Release: The Scientific American archive brings together over 100 years of content highlighting advancements in science, technology, and medicine. Institutional customers can now access every issue of Scientific American back to January 1910. Scientific American, part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), entrusted the scanning and digitization of most of the paper archives […]