MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
JSTOR Labs Report: “Building JSTOR’s Offline Solution for Prison Education”
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
From a JSTOR Labs Blog Post by Alex Humphreys: Thrilled to share with you a new JSTOR Labs report, Supporting the Academic Research Needs of Incarcerated Students: Building JSTOR’s Offline Solution for Prison Education. This report documents our work, beginning in 2018, to develop and pilot an improved, offline version of JSTOR for use in prisons and […]
Wiley Plans to Restore Access to Approximately 1,380 E-Book Titles Removed from ProQuest Academic Complete Collection
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Publishing
UPDATES–Media Coverage and Reactions Update 3) Wiley Backtracks – But Only For Nine Months…(Campaign to Investigate the Ebook Market for Libraries) Update 2) Publisher Restores Access to More Than 1,000 Free E-Books After Faculty Complaint (via GW Hatchet, George Washington University Student Media) Update 1) Responding to Criticism, Publisher Reinstates Blocked Ebooks (via Inside Higher […]
White House Releases Blueprint for AI Bill of Rights; National Archives (NARA) Seeks Feedback on Draft Customer Research Agenda; & More News Headlines
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: A Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age (via OSTP: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) Internet Archive Seeks Donations of Materials to Build a Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (via IA Blog) JSTOR Open Community Collections now available through […]
The Washington Post Reports on the Recently Released Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports
From The Washington Post: [Marcus] Gould’s banner — and 1,601 other artifacts from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence — was saved. More than two years after he attached it to the fence, it was scanned, archived and published Friday in an online collection on Dig DC, the D.C. Public Library’s online archive. [Clip] The collection is a […]
Library of Congress Awards Contract For New Library Collections Access Platform
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, EBSCO, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has awarded a major contract to further develop and implement a new, open-source IT platform that will revolutionize how the Library’s vast physical and digital collections are managed and made accessible for the public, Congress, Library employees and other institutions. The new Library Collections Access Platform […]
New Research Tools: American Kennel Club (AKC) Launches Digital Library to Commemorate Anniversary
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From an AKC Announcement: In celebration of its 138th anniversary, the American Kennel Club (AKC ® ), the world's largest purebred dog registry and governing body of dog sports, is excited to announce the launch of its digital library. “The AKC houses an expansive library with a tremendous amount of history,” said AKCExecutive Secretary Gina […]
From the Federal Digital Library Program/GPO: The draft report of the GPO Director’s Task Force on a Digital Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is now available for public comment through October 14, 2022. Draft Report for Public Comment: Task Force on a Digital Federal Depository Library Program Draft report comment form Task Force on a Digital […]
CNI, ARL, and EDUCAUSE Announce that Paul Courant (University of Michigan) Has Been Named 2022 Recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Lecture, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Productivity, Public Libraries, Video Recordings
From a Joint Announcement: The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that economist Paul Courant, who has served in multiple roles at the University of Michigan, including provost and dean of libraries, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award. […]
The Civil Rights Digital Library Relaunches With a New Look and Fifteen Years of Updated Content
| Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
From the Digital Library of Georgia: A premier online compilation of digital civil rights content is relaunching with a new look and thousands of additional pieces of history. The milestone marks a new era for the Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL). This project brings together more than 200 libraries, archives, and museums to provide free online […]
Next Generation Library Publishing: “From Vision to Reality: Bringing Resilient Open Source Infrastructure to Library Publishers”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
From a NGLP / Educopia Post by Sarah Lippincott: The Next Generation Library Publishing project is building a sustainable open source alternative to commercial publishing platforms, expanding choices for values-driven publishers of all sizes. We are on the brink of realizing our vision as we move the pilot implementations of our software stack into production-ready […]
