MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2012
Vanderbilt Digital Archive Recovers Lost Civil Rights Voices, Digitized Recordings Now Online
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, Profiles, Resources
|From Vanderbilt University Digitized versions of the original reel-to-reel recordings that author Robert Penn Warren conducted with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and other key leaders in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are now searchable through the Who Speaks for the Negro website housed at Vanderbilt University. [Clip] The original recordings are held at […]
Direct to CLIR Issues (No. 86; March/April 2012) Articles Include: CLIR is Moving! Reframing Leadership CLIR Appoints DLF Advisory Subcommittee CLIR/DLF Accepting Applications for Data Curation Fellowships CLIR Names 2012 Mellon Dissertation Fellows CLIR Names 2012 Rovelstad Scholarship Recipient
Copyright: New Organization: Linked Content Coalition Launches in Europe
Data Files, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From the News Release: Executives from news media, publishing, TV, film, music, IT and internet media businesses (see list here) have got together with existing standards and licensing organisations to work in coalition on a cross-media global project that will result in better and easier management of copyright in the online world. [Clip] Its remit […]
Canada: Edmonton City Archives Go Virtual
Archives and Special Collections, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From The Edmonton Journal: The City of Edmonton Archives is going virtual with its first online exhibit profiling Edmonton author, artist and archive-advocate Ella May Walker. [Clip] The city’s move online is intended to give patrons faster access to the archives and to provide a narrative to the stories of Edmontonians that raw records couldn’t […]
From the Hollywood, DC Blog (via The Wrap): The Federal Communications Commission on Friday voted to phase in rules that local TV stations be required to put information about political advertising online. Under the rules, TV stations affiliated with the four top TV networks in the nation’s 50 largest markets will be required to file […]
From a U.S. Census E-Mail: [Data] files contain demographic, economic and governmental statistics from the Census Bureau and other federal agencies, presented for the purpose of multi-county comparisons or single county profiles. National- and state-level statistics are presented as well. The files cover topics such as agriculture, crime, education, health, retail trade and vital statistics. […]
From RFIDNews: The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, New York has started using a self-checkout system that makes use of RFID technology, according to a local news report. In the past, if patrons wanted to check out a book or CD, they had to wait for a librarian to do it for them. With […]
From The St. Louis Post Dispatch: To the thousands of people who use the St. Louis County Library’s headquarters branch in Ladue, or who travel past it every day on busy Lindbergh Boulevard, the red-brick structure may not look like it should be torn down. But demolishing and replacing the building would be part of […]
From The Economist: Despite all these difficulties, the world’s libraries have tried for over a decade to conserve some aspects of their national digital heritage. America’s Library of Congress started its digital-preservation programme in 2000 with $100m from the government. Its web archive currently stands at around 10,000 sites, many of them owned by the […]
We will let this Marin Independent article provide you with the details but I wanted to offer a shout out to our friend and colleague, Sarah Houghton (who many of you know as the Librarian in Black) on being named the new director of the San Rafael (CA) Public Library. It goes without saying that […]