MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
Penn State U. Announces Civil War Archiving Project
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
|From a Penn State Live Story: A new project, “The People’s Contest: a Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project” aims to advance scholarship on the experiences of ordinary northerners during a period of extraordinary conflict, a lesser understood aspect of the Civil War era. The website chronicles Pennsylvania’s history from 1851, marked by the bloody […]
A New Blog From HathiTrust and 2011 Mid-Year HathiTrust Review Now Online
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|Blog News 1. Perspectives from HathiTrust is the title of a new blog from the organization. The premiere post was written by John Wilkin, the Executive Director of HathiTrust and the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (LIT) at the University of Michigan. The blog post is titled, “HathiTrust and Discovery” Wiklin Begins: It […]
Baker & Taylor and B&N Team Up to Make Library Books Available on the Nook
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From a Baker and Taylor News Release (via Paul Biba at TeleRead.com) Baker & Taylor and Barnes & Noble, Inc. announced at the American Library Association Annual Conference that the companies will partner to build awareness among NOOK customers that digital books are available for loan from local libraries, and to provide all library patrons […]
Info Industry Briefs: News from Gale, Springer, OCLC, AAP, OverDrive, Ristech, B&T
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Gale Expands Three Acclaimed Digital Collections Springer launches SpringerReference.com Hat Tip/Thanks: Law Librarian Blog and No Shelf Required University of New Brunswick Libraries first in Canada to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services American Academy of Pediatrics Makes Content From Entire eBook Collection Available to Institutions With New Subscription Model OverDrive Adds Simultaneous […]
Newspaper Digitization: NewsBank Plans to Digitize More Than 100 Years of The Daily Northwestern
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Resources, Special Libraries
|Here’s the story from Northwestern University located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston and Chicago, IL. Via The Daily Northwestern: Newsbank President and CEO Dan Jones approached Students Publishing Company, which publishes The Daily, about transforming the historical contents of The Daily dating back more than 100 years ago to a digital, searchable […]
U. of Michigan Library Users Will Soon Have Internet/Searchable Access to Thousands of Orphan Works in HathiTrust Database
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|From The University Record Online: U-M Library users soon will have access to digital versions of some of the thousands of orphan works held in common by the U-M Library and the HathiTrust Digital Library. Making these works available in HathiTrust will render them fully searchable, viewable, and accessible to U-M researchers wherever there is […]
Digitization: "Darwin Library, Now Online, Reveals Mind of 19th-Century Naturalist"
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|From a Chronicle of Higher Educational Article by Jie Jenny Zou: A portion of Charles Darwin’s vast scientific library—including handwritten notes that the 19-century English naturalist scribbled in the margins of his books—has been digitized and is available online. Readers can now get a firsthand look into the mind of the man behind the theory […]
Kansas Digital Library Plans to Terminate Contract With OverDrive, Argues Consortium Purchased Material + Primary Document
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
|From a Library Journal Article by Michael Kelly, The state librarian of Kansas, with the backing of state attorney general’s office, is planning to terminate the Kansas Digital Library Consortium’s contract with ebook vendor OverDrive and is asserting the bold argument that the consortium has purchased, not licensed, its ebook content from OverDrive and, therefore, […]
Archives: Northern Michigan University Digitizes Thousands of Historic Mining Documents and Photos
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Reports, Resources
|From WLUC-TV: [Northern Michigan] University’s (NMU) Archiving Department recently scanned and posted over 70,000 documents relating to CCI’s (Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company) annual reports and lumber company. They also scanned over 500 maps and 200 photographs. It took the staff of five over a year to scan and touch up the documents. NMU acquired the records […]
New: "U. of California Libraries Academic e-Book Usage Survey Report"
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Publishing, Reports
|Via California Digital Library E-Mail: In a period of economic challenges, the University of California Libraries must have high quality information and analysis to guide their collection decisions. A new report, UC Libraries Academic e-Book Usage Survey, presents the results of a 2010 survey of 2,569 University of California faculty, staff, and students intended to […]