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Canada: Digitized Files Now Being Added to LAC's Second World War Service Files Database
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From Library and Archives Canada: Library and Archives Canada has started to add digitized copies of the Second World War service files to the database to make them more accessible, to help preserve the originals and to avoid copying the same file more than once. For files not yet digitized, you can order photocopies or […]
The video lectures will be available at the New York Public Library at no charge. From NYPL: The New York Public Library (NYPL) and The Floating University, a new educational media venture, have formed a partnership to provide library patrons access to the nation’s most esteemed scholars via a new multi-media lecture series beginning November […]
Wow! BBC to Open Vast Radio Archive Online, Will Include Spoken Word Programming Back to 1940s
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|Wow! Still in the working title stage. Set to go live within a year. Of course, we hope that the content is accessible outside the UK. UPDATE: From the BBC Radio Blog: An Archive for the Future We have already started the work. Over 20 hours of each week’s Radio 4 output is added to […]
From IFLA: The Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies is pleased to submit the final version of the Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies for approval by the Sections on Bibliography and Classification and Indexing. Read the Guidelines (Full Text, PDF) Additional Background
From the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com announced that material from four Museum collections containing information on more than 30,000 victims of Nazi persecution is now available online at Ancestry.com and can be searched at no cost. The collections contain information on thousands of individuals including displaced […]
From the FDLP Desktop: On Friday, November 4, 2011, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) draws one step closer to shutting down GPO Access. Once the Friday editions of daily updated content (e.g., Federal Register, Congressional Record) have been uploaded, GPO will cease updating GPO Access in terms of both database content and HTML pages. […]
Amazon.com Is Now Lending eBooks as Kindle Lending Library Opens
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing
|The rumored Kindle eBook lending service is real and is now live. It will add a new variable as libraries rethink their roles, collection building, eBook services for libraries, and many other issues. First, some fast facts and links and then a few comments on first learning and digesting the news. As you’ll see there […]
From an A9 (Amazon Subsidiary) Info Page: Flow uses both barcode and image recognition to continuously recognize tens of millions of products (books, DVDs, CDs, video games, or millions of packaged household items, and/or point your camera at a UPC ) in a live camera view, with seamless transition between product packaging and barcodes. Users […]
IMLS Seeks Input on Proposed Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership
|From the Institute for Museum and Library Services: The Institute of Museum and Library Services, working together with the International City and County Management Association and the University of Washington Information School, is seeking public input on its proposed framework for Building Digitally Inclusive Communities. The framework is intended to help community leaders convene community discussions […]
The article includes several quotes from Jo Budler, Kansas State Librarian on the current state of eBooks in KS. It also includes comments from: Lea Currie, head of collection development at KU Libraries Sherri Turner, assistant director of the Lawrence Public Library From the University Daily Kansan: “We’ve had a contract with OverDrive since 2005, […]