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Digitisation Projects: South Africa: Google to Help Digitise Madiba [Nelson Mandela] and Tutu Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, News, Resources
|From the Official News Release: Google has today announced a $1,25 million (ZAR 8,6 million rand) grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, housed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of […]
Digital Scholarship Publishes "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010"
Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|For the 20th consecutive year The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, a useful and important reference work by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., has been published. It’s available as a PDF file (open access, free) along with a paperback version (fee). The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 presents over 3,800 selected English-language articles, books, and other textual […]
Legal: Digitization Projects: "Missouri Supreme Court Cases From 1800s to Go on Web"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
|From the Associated Press: The Missouri State Archives will be posting thousands of old state Supreme Court cases online for the public to view beginning late next year. [Clip] The agency will use the money to scan the Missouri Supreme Court’s original files in about 9,000 cases heard between 1821 and 1865. The scanned files […]
Michigan State University: "Library Digitizes to Widen Availability"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From an Article Appearing in The State News (Student Run Paper): What began as a project to digitize a collection of Chicago Tribune newspapers in 2009 has expanded to provide a resource of thousands of digitized pages of books and publications for MSU Libraries. The purchase of an advanced scanner jump-started the process of digitization […]
From a PSFK Post: Imagine every single book ever written being translated into a series of QR codes that would allow users to immediately download the stories to their devices in 800 word segments. That is exactly what Books2Barcodes, an initiative created by humor blog Wonder Tonic, plans to do. Beginning with several classics which […]
Canada: "Vancouver Launches Online Photo Archive"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Resources
|From a CBC Article: The City of Vancouver has completed an online photo archive project, a collection of panoramic cityscapes from the early to mid 1900s.Nearly 400 images by photographer W.J. Moore have been digitized and uploaded to the Vancouver Archives website. W. J. Moore worked as a commercial photographer from 1911 to 1953. He […]
Congratulations to Dr. Dan Cohen, Winner of the 2011 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology
Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
|Congrats, kudos, and all the rest to Dr. Cohen on winning the 2011 Kilgour Award. LITA is pleased to announce the 2011 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, Daniel J. Cohen. Dr. Cohen is an associate professor of history and art history at George Mason University and […]
From an Alexis Madrigal Article on TheAtlantic.com: MIT’s Technology Review has published all their back issues to 1969 as PDFs. If you’re a subscriber you get full access to the archive. Plebes get all the wonderful covers — and a 10-page preview. It looks like HP sponsored the digitization, which makes me wonder why all […]
Digitization Projects: "Philippine Digital Cultural Heritage Archive Launched"
Digital Preservation, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Resources
|From a GMA News Online Article: Filipino netizens may soon be welcomed into the virtual doors of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Established in 1969 with the mission to promote and preserve Philippine culture and heritage, the CCP is set to undertake an historic digitization of its audio-visual collections, in partnership with EMC […]
From the Kirtas Web Site: [France-based] i2S announces that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire a majority interest in Kirtas Technologies Inc, based in Rochester, New York, USA. The world leader in robotic bound-document digitization systems, Kirtas will complement the i2s Scanning unit product line, its distribution network, its customer profile […]