MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
New Digital Archive: National Library of Ireland Live Aid Archive Goes Digital, Over 2000 Photos Now Online
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, News
From an NLI Announcement: To mark the anniversary of one of the 1980s’ most memorable events, the National Library of Ireland (NLI) has digitised 2,000 photos from the Live Aid concert and made them available to view online. The Band Aid Trust kindly donated its full archive to the National Library of Ireland (NLI) in […]
Just Released: “Ebook Availability, Licensing, and Pricing in Canada and the U.S.: A Follow-Up Study”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing
From a Computers in Libraries Article by Michael Blackwell, Jennie Rose Halperin, Catherine Mason, and Carmi Parker: In 2018, Rebecca Giblin and her colleagues created the E-lending Project, measuring in various studies the availability, license terms, and prices of digital titles in Australia. Additionally, using one library vendor, it internationally compared digital findings to print in […]
Conference Paper: From Building a First-Generation Digital Library Infrastructure to Reimagining Discovery
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
The article linked below was published yesterday by the International Journal of Digital Curation. Title From Building a First-Generation Digital Library Infrastructure to Reimagining Discovery Authors Stuart Snydman Harvard University Martha Whitehead Harvard University Source International Journal of Digital Curation Vol. 19 No. 1 (2025) Note: This paper was presented at the International Digital Curation […]
Roundup: New Online/Digital Collections (1893 World’s Fair; Huey P. Newton; and More)
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Roundup
Roundup Griffin MSI’s New Online Collection Lets Visitors Experience the 1893 World’s Fair — and More (via Chicago Sun-Times) The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition has begun, and people dressed in their Victorian finest are headed into the south portico of the fair’s Palace of Fine Arts, a building that looks as if it has come […]
Ebooks: Lyrasis Becomes the Sole Owner of The Palace Project, Move Will Enable Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to Take Up “New Efforts” to Advance Its Mission
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
From Today’s Joint Announcement (Full Text): The Palace Project — a mobile app and digital platform that provides ebooks and audiobooks to more than 700 libraries — is changing ownership. Co-created by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Lyrasis in 2020, the app will now be owned solely by Lyrasis, a nonprofit that […]
Robert H. McDonald Appointed Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
From the University of Texas Libraries: The University of Texas at Austin announces the appointment of Robert H. McDonald as Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries, effective August 16, 2025. McDonald currently serves as Dean of University Libraries and Senior Vice Provost of Online and Extended Education at the University […]
Conference Paper: “Research on Artificial Intelligence in Libraries”
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The paper linked below was presented at the 3rd International Conference on Communication Networks and Machine Learning. Title Research on Artificial Intelligence in Libraries Authors Meiping Wang Zongliang Xia Source CNML ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 3rd International Conference on Communication Networks and Machine Learning (via ACM Digital Library) DOI: 10.1145/3728199.3728285 Abstract AI technology is […]
Roger Schonfeld Named Managing Director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports, Scholarly Communications
From a JSTOR Announcement (Full Text): ITHAKA announced today that Roger Schonfeld will lead JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as its managing director. Launched in April 2025, JSTOR Digital Stewardship is a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale. This service integrates next generation […]
Brown University: “Collaborative Project Yields New Digital Archive on Hidden History of Indigenous Enslavement”
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, News, Open Access
From Brown University: Scholars estimate that between 1492 and the 1900s, at least 2.5 million Indigenous people in the Americas were taken from their communities and forced into enslavement and servitude. Just like the transatlantic slave trade, the phenomenon shaped United States history — yet few schoolchildren learn about it today. That could change with […]
SF Chronicle: “Trump’s War on Information Meets a Dedicated Adversary: University Librarians”
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From The San Francisco Chronicle: More than 50,000 government webpages have been affected, according to an evolving snapshot by the End of Term Archive, a nonpartisan project that began in 2008 to record government websites at the end of each presidential term, and the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library formed nearly 30 years ago in San […]
