MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
"4 Stars for Metadata: an Open Ranking System for Library, Archive, and Museum Collection Metadata"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From a Post on the Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data Blog (Cross-Posted on Open Knowledge Foundation Blog and the Creative Commons Blog) This post was written by participants of the LOD-LAM Summit which was held on June 2nd/3rd in San Francisco and is crossposted on the Creative Commons blog and the OKFN blog. The […]
Industry Briefs: News From Serial Solutions; Thomson Reuters; Brill; PubGet; and OCLC
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Profiles
|The Summon Service to Enable Rapid Discovery of Images from the ARTstor Digital Library Thomson Reuters Launches Institutional Profiles to Analyze and Compare World’s Leading Academic Research Institution Addition of IEEE Content Diversifies And Expands Pubget’s Index By Nearly 10% Content from Brill Academic Publishers will soon be available through WorldCat Local
New HathiTrust Member: Lafayette College Becomes First Liberal Arts School to Join Organization
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing, Resources
|From a Lafayette College Announcement: Lafayette College [located in Easton, PA] has become the first liberal arts college to join HathiTrust, a cooperative of academic and research libraries seeking to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. “Lafayette’s membership in HathiTrust is an investment in the preservation of our own collections […]
The Omani Digital Library is Now a World Digital Library Partner; 128 WDL Members as of Today
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|Via Twitter: The Omani Digital Library (http://www.al-kawkab.net/) is now a World Digital Library partner. Welcome! That brings the total to 128 partners in 68 countries.
HathiTrust Publishes May 2011 Activities Update
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|Direct to Update ||| A PDF Version is Also Available A Few Highlights from the Report: “HathiTrust completed ingest of more than 47,000 volumes contributed by the University of Virginia in May.” “In May, the Communications Working Group continued planning for a HathiTrust Facebook presence, and made progress on the development of new HathiTrust promotional […]
An In-Depth Interview: "Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians' Digital Library"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|Many questions about what HathiTrust does, how they do it, and how some use it, etc. they’re very likely going to be answered in this 2800 word interview published by Library Journal. Title: “Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians’ Digital Library” An Interview by Char Booth, Instruction Services Manager & E-Learning Librarian at the Claremont Colleges […]
Super Cool! "Newly-Digitized, Never-Before-Seen Videos of 'Beat Generation' Poets Released"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|Awesome. This is a definite not only a win for users because the video was discovered but also because it was digitized and accessible to anyone interested, 24x7x365, from anywhere in the world with a fast enough web connection. It wasn’t that long ago that this would have been impossible. The video first became available […]
New: Streaming Audio: National Library of Spain (BNE) Begins Adding Historic Recordings to Hispanic Digital Library
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, Resources
|More than 650 recordings now available to stream. More than 6500 have already been digitized. From a Mechanically Translated via Revista de Arte – Logopress: [The first release] corresponds to a selection of those produced between 1924 and 1943, covering all musical genres (operas, sonatas, paso dobles, tangos, operettas, popular songs, fox-trot), edited by some […]
HathiTrust Has a New Member: Boston University Libraries
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From a Boston U. Libraries News Release: Boston University Libraries has become the newest member of HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org), a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. The Libraries plan to contribute public domain volumes digitized through […]
CLIR/DLF Receives Mellon Foundation Funding for Digital Public Library of America Prototype
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
|From a CLIR/DLF Announcement: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded CLIR/DLF [ Council on Library and Information Resources/Digital Library Federation] a $46,000 planning grant to develop a prototype for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The prototype will be submitted to the DPLA “beta sprint,” which seeks “ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, [or] […]