MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
BnF (National Library of France) Signs Deal With Jouve to Digitize 70,000 Books a Year
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Publishing
|From a News Release: The Jouve Group will work in partnership with Safig, Diadéis and the subcontractor BancTec, to digitize more than 70,000 works per year [it’s a three year deal] of which around 70% will come from the print collections of the BnF and 30% from the collections of partner libraries. Financed by the […]
Digital Preservation: A New EU Funded Project to Preserve Weblogs
Digital Preservation, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From a News Release: An EU funded consortium has invited blog provider mokonoto assist in developing a digital preservation technology to preserve content published via blogs. [Clip] The EU project BlogForever aims to provide preservation technology in order to enable institutions and citizens to preserve content for future generations. BlogForever is a collaborative EU funded […]
Canada: A New Digital Collection: IslandArchives.ca From U. of Prince Edward Island
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Resources
|This resource was officially launched on April 18, 2011. Direct to the IslandArchives.ca From the About Page: The Island Archives Centre will protect and offer access to all of PEI’s contributions to our local and national heritage via a digital context infinitely more useful than that provided by traditional tools. Contributions to the “official word” […]
"Cornell Library Rescues Early U.S. Trial Records, Digitizes Pamphlet Collection"
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Preservation, Resources
|From the Ithaca Journal: A fascinating bit of legal history involving Lizzie Borden, John Brown and Lincoln’s killers soon will be preserved and available online, thanks to a recent grant awarded to Cornell University Library. With $155,700 from the Save America’s Treasures grant program, the library will restore and digitize a collection of mass-produced pamphlets […]
From a Text Summary of a Federal News Radio Interview: Now in its 150th year, the Government Printing Office has been on a digital tear for the last several years. In December it went live with FDsys.gov, its new system of record. GPO is partnering with several agencies to help with digital conversion and public […]
From OCLC/RLG: "Scan and Deliver: Managing User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Patrons and Users
|From an OCLC Research Announcement: This report presents strategies for providing efficient and economical delivery of digital copies of materials in special collections. Changes in technology and the increased visibility of special collections have led to greater user interest in accessing special collections, as well as the expectation that reproduction requests will be fulfilled with […]
New Report: "Preservation of Digitized Books and Other Digital Content Held by Cultural Heritage Organizations"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Preservation
|Preservation of Digitized Books and Other Digital Content Held by Cultural Heritage Organizations (72 pages; PDF) A report for the NEH and IMLS resulting from a grant from the “Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership” given to Portico and Cornell University Library Over the past decade there has been tremendous growth in the number of […]
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Launches Digital Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Resources, Video Recordings
|Crowdsourcing Science History: NIST Digital Archives Seeks Help in Identifying Mystery Artifacts (via NIST) A new website, the NIST Digital Archives, is exhibiting images of historically significant scientific instruments used to obtain these measures, in addition to providing access to full-text publications from the agency’s history. NIST is inviting enthusiasts to participate in describing some […]
Digital Preservation: "ARL and ALA File Comments Regarding Federal Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
|You Can Access All of ALA’s and ARL’s Comments in This 7 page Document (PDF) From the Document: The Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association appreciate this opportunity to provide reply comments on the important question of the desirability of bringing under federal protection sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972 (“federalization”). […]
Issue #13 of The Code4Lib Journal Now Online
Academic Libraries, Awards, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|Several articles in this issue focus on library use of mobile technologies. Direct to the Complete Table of Contents Here are direct links to four articles. Three dealing with mobile and the fourth about archiving web material using the the Memento protocol. Memento is an award winning “technical framework” that can help make finding and […]