MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
Info Industry: SAE Digital Library Adds eBooks and EBSCO Adds Adam Matthew Group Adds Primary Source Collections
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing
|1. Mobile: All Oxford Journals (More than 250 From Oxford U. Press) Are Now Mobile-Optimized Powered by Highwire Press platform. 1. Engineering: SAE’s Digital Library Database is Now Home to 117 Full Text eBooks 2. History: EBSCO Publishing and the Adam Matthew Group Adds Primary Source Collections to EBSCO Discovery Service 3. Digital Preservation: eJournals: […]
Milestones: IEEE Xplore Digital Library Adds Three Millionth Document
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Official Announcement: The IEEE Xplore digital library, one of the world’s largest collections of high quality technical literature in engineering and technology, recently added its three millionth document to its vast digital library. “Protecting Smart Grid Automation Systems Against Cyberattacks,” which appears in the current issue of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, reflects […]
Australia: National Library Archives Graffiti Website
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, Preservation, Reports, Resources
|From NineMSN: The National Library has archived a graffiti website because it has social and cultural merit, the Herald Sun reports. The website boasts it has the nation’s largest online collection of street art photos, with more than 4000 images of graffiti and tags on trains and the streets, many taken in Melbourne. The newspaper […]
OverDrive Releases List of Top 25 Most Popular Titles in Their Project Gutenberg Collection (U.S. Only)
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
|From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: Many of OverDrive’s partner library sites contain a link to the Gutenberg titles currently being offered, and from this we are able to track what titles are most popular among the Gutenberg digital library. The list varies from the historically popular Bible to the controversially informative satire A Modest […]
Google Books: "Google Strikes Deal With French Publisher La Martiniere Groupe"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing
|From Dow Jones Newswires: The deal is the second major agreement the web giant reaches with a publishing house, following a controversy over the group’s digital library project. [Clip] “This collaboration constitutes an important step in our relationships with French publishers and contributes to the preservation of the French culture,” Philippe Colombet, head of Google […]
Cornell, Duke, Emory, and Johns Hopkins Join HathiTrust Orphan Works Project
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Scholarly Communications
|From the Announcement: Leaders at Cornell, Duke, Emory and Johns Hopkins universities jointly announced today that they would begin making the full text of thousands of “orphan works” in their library collections digitally accessible to students, faculty and researchers at their own institutions. [Clip] With the announcement, the four institutions formally join the University of […]
Art Museums: Marquette University's Haggerty Museum Puts Collection Online
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Management and Leadership, News
|From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University has put nearly a quarter of its 4,500 or so artworks into a digital collections database, the museum announced today. [Clip] The database features the work of 350 artists from 29 different countries and is searchable by artist’s name, title, nationality, medium […]
Reference: Controlled Vocabularies "The Ethnographic Thesaurus (Beta Version) is Added to the Open Folklore Portal"
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources, Scholarly Communications
|From the Open Folklore Blog: The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is now available in a beta version on the Open Folklore portal, a collaborative effort of the Society, the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries, and the Indiana University Digital Library Program. [Clip] The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access […]
Canada: University of Calgary digital library ready for students
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From the Calgary Herald Article: Staff at the University of Calgary are rushing to ensure the new Taylor Family Digital Library will be open by the start of the school year. The new library was intended to be open for students prior to final exams in April but after the first two floors opened, a […]
"Rwandan Libraries Go Digital"
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries
|From the The Korea Herald: The Korea Internationel Cooperation Agency and the Rwanda Development Board recently launched a digital library to be used in 30 Rwandan business development centers. Libraries at telecenters will be equipped with several tablet computers to create an environment for developing digital content and facilitate the access of information. In the […]