MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
New Online Resource Offers Teachers Wealth of Middle East Material
| Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
From a University of Chicago News Release: Students in high schools and colleges around the country can get a much richer look at the history and culture of the Middle East through a new online resource, “Teaching the Middle East,” which includes articles written by University of Chicago faculty on topics ranging from prehistory through […]
Congratulations to Karen Coyle! Recipient of 2011 ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
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UPDATE: The full text of the report mentioned below is available online (free). Direct to: Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata (January, 2010) Congrats and Kudos to Karen! From an ALA Announcement: The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Outstanding Publication Award recipient for 2011 is Karen Coyle for her “Understanding the […]
"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
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From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. […]
"Digital Library of Georgia Makes Civil War, Civil Rights Accessible"
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From The Newnan Times-Herald: From the Civil War to Civil Rights — and on to the present — the Digital Library of Georgia chronicles the evolving relationships between black and white Georgians. While the DLG is physically located on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, its electronic presence is available to anybody […]
Slides, Notes, and Tweets From Day One of the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference
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The 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference began on Thursday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. You can find the complete conference schedule here. + Tweets from the conference are using the hashtag #pda2011. + Session Notes by Diana Wakimoto (via The Waki Librarian) Hat Tips & Thanks: Bill Lefurgy and Scott Rosenberg More reports, […]
David Rothman On a National Digital-Library System
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David Rothman has been talking and writing about e-books, digital libraries, and related topics for a long time. He was the founder of TeleRead, a site that focuses on ebooks, ereaders, and related topics that’s now run Paul Biba. Rothman is also a cofounder (with Tom Peters) of the new, LibraryCity.org. Here’s a bit of background […]
University of Missouri: "MU Libraries Emphasize Digital Archives"
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From an Article Appearing in The Maneater (Student Paper at the University of Missouri): The library both digitizes collections it already has and purchases new material that originates online, such as online journals and databases. The process of digitization is funded partly through grants. Students and scholars have gravitated toward online resources because of their […]
Abu Dhabi National Library Joins World Digital Library
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From an Article in The National (Abu Dhabi): To the outside world, familiar with the UAE for its modern skyscrapers and luxury hotels, rare colour snapshots of the capital taken almost 50 years ago provide a valuable insight into the country’s past. Until now those images, as well as hundreds of other historical documents, could […]
Now Online: The January/February 2011 Edition of CLIR Issues
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Articles In The Latest Issue (no. 79) Include: Extent of Orphan Works Examined in New Publication Series CLIR has launched a new publication series, “Ruminations.” The series will feature short research papers and essays that bring new perspective to issues related to planning for and managing organizational and institutional change in the evolving digital environment […]
New Audio, Transcript of MLK Speech
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From a Wake Forest University News Center Item: In October of 1962, more than ten months before delivering his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the podium in Wait Chapel and spoke to a crowd of 2,200. Nearly 50 years later, the public can experience that moment in Wake […]
