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From the Encyclopedia: The Canadian Film Encyclopedia, the CFE, is an online reference project from the Film Reference Library, a leading educator and research and information resource for Canadian film. Publishing online, we’ve been able to bring you the first two phases of the CFE, while we continue developing and expanding the CFE’s content and interactive elements for […]
From a Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Announcement: The Technical Reports and Archive Image Library (TRAIL) has digitized over 20,000 U.S. federal technical reports, including documents produced by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which was responsible for the peacetime use of atomic science and technology from 1946 until 1974. Much of this information is […]
Congrats NLA! From a NLA Blog Post by David Ong: There is some excitement amongst the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) team today. As of this week, we’re delivering 5 Million newspaper pages through the Trove>Newspapers and more view. Apart from being a really large number of newspaper pages*, the additional significance lies in the […]
"U. of California Libraries Must Increase Sharing to Weather Cuts" & Full Text of Library Planning Task Force Interim Report
Academic Libraries, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation
|From a UC Newsroom Report: The University of California’s library system must expand its shared library services to ease the impact of an upcoming budget cut of as much as 21 percent in the next six years, a UC-created task force says. To deal with these cuts, the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee’s […]
Lawsuit: "We Want Our Archives Back"
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, News
|From an Article in Haaretz: After the Holocaust, the decimated Jewish community of Austria asked the Jewish people’s central archive in Jerusalem to take possession of historical documents. Now strong and prosperous, it’s suing for their return. [Clip] It is not easy to find the Jewish people’s archives, at the easternmost edge of the Hebrew […]
Here’s some info to impress your friends and neighbors with this weekend. (-: From the USPS: The Postal Service [has] released statistics highlighting the cities where the most dog attacks occur nationwide. Houston tops the list with 62 letter carriers attacked in 2010. Nationwide last year, 5,669 postal employees were attacked in more than 1,400 […]
The April 2011 HathiTrust Update is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Resources
|Direct to HathiTrust Update (April 2011) New PageTurner Online E-Reading Tool Enhanced Local Digitization Ingest “Michigan staff worked with Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Yale University, and the University of Illinois in April on ingest of locally-digitized volumes. We expect to begin ingest of volumes from Madrid in May, as well as the full set of […]
Winners of the 2010 Federal Library of the Year, Federal Librarian of the Year, and Federal Library Technician of the Year Announced
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Government Libraries, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From a FLICC/Library of Congress Announcement: The Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) has announced the winners of its national awards for federal librarianship, which recognize the many innovative ways that federal libraries, librarians and library technicians fulfill the information demands of government, business and scholarly communities, and the American public. FLICC will honor […]
DigitalLiteracy.gov Launches and We're Disappointed (Things Can Only Get Better)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Resources, School Libraries
|Earlier today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (part of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce) launched its DigitalLiteracy.gov portal. You can read about the site here. This is a great idea and an important resource that either the government or some organization that deals with information access should have developed years ago. We’re glad the […]
From the NISO Web Site: The National Information Standards Organization announces the availability of RFID in U.S. Libraries (NISO RP-6-201x) for a thirty day public comment period, beginning immediately and ending on June 9, 2011. This revision of the 2008 Recommended Practice recommends a set of practices and procedures to ensure interoperability among U.S. RFID […]