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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 […]
Video: A Library of Congress Workshop : "Moving Images: Digitizing to the Future"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Title: “Moving Images: Digitizing to the Future” Speakers: Dr. James Snyder, Michael Stelmach Recorded at the Library of Congress on January 24, 2011 Running Time: 145 minutes Abstract: This workshop covers the key concepts and technologies pertaining to moving image preservation and digitization in libraries, archives, and museums, including the typical elements in the preservation […]
Free Access to Fee-Based Resources From Gale During National Library Week
Digital Preservation, Gale, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|National Library Week (NLW) is next week and as we’ve seen in past years a number of information providers offer free access to a variety of fee-based resources* for the entire week and sometimes longer. We will post info other NLW”freebies” from other companies as we learn about them. To get us started, here’s what […]
Inland Architect Image Database Now Available From Art Institute of Chicago
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From artdaily.org: The Ryerson and Burnham Archives of the Art Institute of Chicago announce the digitization of another major image collection: 5,000 plates from the venerable Chicago-based periodical Inland Architect and News Record. This exceedingly rich visual record from a seminal period in American architecture can now be accessed by the public through the Digital Collections Database […]
From an LC Announcement: [Last] week the Library of Congress added more than 165,500 historic newspaper pages to the Chronicling America Web site. This update includes new titles from Nebraska, Louisiana, Hawaii, Utah, Texas, and Virginia, as well as many issues added for existing titles. The site now includes more than 3.4 million pages from […]
Israel: "$200 Million Renewal Project Launched at Nat'l Library"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, National Libraries, Publishing
|From the Jerusalem Post: The $200 million project, funded by the Rothschild fund Yad Hanadiv, was launched at a ceremony at the National Library on Sunday evening attended by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Hebrew University President Menahem Ben-Sasson, and Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer. The new building, […]
Law Professor James Grimmelmann Discusses Google Book Search Settlement Decision on Bloomberg TV
Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Interviews, News, Profiles
|Professor James Grimmelmann from the New York Law School has been one of the legal experts the media has been turning to for comments about the Google Book Settlement since it was announced about 10 days ago. A smart move by the media. Grimmelmann and his students have done an outstanding job providing analysis and […]
Houston: "Elegy for Librarians: After All the Budget Cutting's Done, Who'll Be Around to Help Us Ask the Sharper Questions?"
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Jobs, Journal Articles, Libraries
|The Houston Chronicle’s Editorial Board deserves recognition for this editorial from just about every info pro organization. Read it and make sure to save or bookmark to reread on “rainy days.” From an Editorial in the Houston Chronicle: If librarians seem distracted these days, you can’t blame them. They’re worried that they’ll lose jobs. As […]
"Four UCSD Libraries to Close in Consolidation Move"
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries
|From a San Diego Union-Tribune by Pat Flynn: Four University of California San Diego libraries, including that of the renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography, are slated to be closed and their collections consolidated into other campus libraries in a cost-cutting move. “Scripps has a library that is 100-years old and recognized as the leading collection […]