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Cornell University: Library Digitization Projects Span Multiple Millennia (From 17th C. Japanese Woodblocks to Hip Hop)
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|From the Cornell Chronicle: Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences have awarded six new grants to create new digital content of enduring value. Treasures ranging from Bronx-born hip-hop posters to ancient Greek and Roman coins will hit the Web in the near future as part of the Grants Program for Digital […]
From Royal Holloway, University of London: Fragile treasures of 16th Century music are now freely available online, thanks to a partnership between Royal Holloway, University of London, the British Library and JISC. The Early Music Online project has digitised more than 300 books of the world’s earliest printed music from holdings at the British Library. […]
From AllHipHop.com: The collected works of legendary rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur have been organized and categorized at the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library. The Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection was opened to the public on the 15th anniversary of the legendary rapper’s death’s (September 13th). The collection spans from 1969 to 2008, and […]
The Royal Library of Denmark is the Newest Member of The Commons on Flickr
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|From the Flickr Blog: The Royal Library is Denmark’s national library, the library for the University of Copenhagen and it’s also the largest library in the Nordic region. [Clip] The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world’s public photography archives and secondly to show how […]
You can read the announcement for yourself on the “Spotify is Coming to the U.S.” web page. According to the page, Spotify will be “coming soon” to the U.S. That’s all we know at this time. You’ll also find a link to register for an invite so you can be one of the first to […]
New: Streaming Audio: National Library of Spain (BNE) Begins Adding Historic Recordings to Hispanic Digital Library
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|More than 650 recordings now available to stream. More than 6500 have already been digitized. From a Mechanically Translated via Revista de Arte – Logopress: [The first release] corresponds to a selection of those produced between 1924 and 1943, covering all musical genres (operas, sonatas, paso dobles, tangos, operettas, popular songs, fox-trot), edited by some […]
A busy week for the Chronicling America team at LC. First, we learned of the database continuing to expand. CA is now home to 3.7 million digitized and indexed newspaper pages. Today’s News? A New UI and New Features. The big changes discussed below provide a big improvement vs. what was available prior to the […]
The World Digital Library is Now Tweeting and More About the WDL
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|A Hello to the World Digital Library on Twitter! Follow: @WDLorg If you’re unfamiliar with the WDL here are a few fast facts and links: The World Digital was first proposed by Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress, in 2005 and was officially launched in April, 2009. UNESCO has been a partner since the very […]
The National Jukebox launch announcement was made today by the Librarian of Congress, James Billington and singer/songwriter, Harry Connick, Jr. The National Jukebox is Now Live at: http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/ Fast Facts: At Launch Jukebox Contains 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. “Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record […]
"Ann Arbor Library Acquires Lending, Sharing and Copying Rights to Creative Commons Music Catalog"
|From a Boing Boing Post by Cory Doctorow: The Ann Arbor, MI library has bought a bulk license to the Magnatune catalog of Creative Commons licensed music; the license fee of $10,000/year goes to Magnatune and the musicians, and gives the library’s patrons the right to listen, download and copy the music. Libraries are one […]