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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 Virginia Historical Society News Release: The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) recently received a $100,000 grant from Dominion Resources and The Dominion Foundation to fund the creation of Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names. This free, online database will contain personal information about enslaved Virginians gleaned from some of the more […]
From the Map Hompage: OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within […]
Audio: "Should the Library of Congress Become a National Digital Hard-Drive?"
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Jeff Young from The Chronicle of Higher Education talks with Martha Anderson the director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP) at the Library of Congress. From a Text Blurb: The nation’s library now archives all public Twitter messages – what’s next? The Tech Therapy team talks with Martha Anderson, director of […]
NARA: National Archives Releases 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
|From a NARA News Release: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announces the release of the 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report. In May 2010, NARA issued the mandatory annual records management self-assessment (RMSA) to Federal agencies. This followed the pilot self-assessment that was completed in 2009. The goal of the self-assessment is to determine […]
From a Post By Amy Garner on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy Weblog: “What’s at stake when local news and information flow doesn’t serve all members of a community equally well? How can people respond?” These questions lie at the heart of Information Stories, a riveting new series […]
New GAO Report: "Electronic Government: National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2011 Expenditure Plan"
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|From the Summary: NARA’s fiscal year 2011 expenditure plan satisfies four of the six legislative conditions and partially satisfies two. Specifically, it partially satisfies the condition that NARA meet requirements for reviewing the progress of capital investments, such as ERA. While NARA has held regular meetings with senior-level agency management to review ERA progress, these […]
Naming Names: U.S. Senators Who Shun Facebook With the explosion of Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the years since the 2004 election, more and more politicians are taking the opportunity to create online platforms for the purposes of everything from announcing legislation, to interacting with constituents, to, most vitally, raising money. But as […]
From a News Release: The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform powering smarter music apps across the web and various devices, announced on Tuesday that it has provided music analysis and metadata to the Million Song Dataset, a collaboration between The Echo Nest and Columbia University’s LabROSA (Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech […]
From a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) News Item: Two Iraqi librarians [visited] McMaster University [in February] for training that will help in the rebuilding of their war-torn country. Suzan Azeez Ali and Sawsan Fawzi Mahdi, librarians with the Specialized Institute for Engineering Industries (SIEI), are at McMaster to better understand how to run […]