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Now Available Online: National Archives at Riverside Collaborates with California Universities to Digitize Chinese Heritage Records
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
From a NARA News Report More than 2,200 Chinese Exclusion Act case files held by the National Archives at Riverside are now available online in the National Archives Catalog, thanks to a collaboration with the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California . The project began in 2018 after a fortuitous meeting at a local American Archives Month event. Shortly […]
Journal Article: “Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections”
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Reports
The article linked below was recently published by RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. Title Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections Authors Lynne M. ThomasUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Source RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage Vol 23, No 2 […]
Joy Harjo’s “Living Nations, Living Words” Poet Laureate Project Honored By Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Libraries, News
From the Library of Congress: The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums has presented one of its Guardians of Culture and Lifeways International Awards to the Library of Congress and former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo for “Living Nations, Living Words,” Harjo’s signature project as the nation’s first Native American poet laureate between 2019 […]
Digital Collections: National Library of Norway Releases Thousands of Intimate Photographs of Jazz Greats
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News
From Jazzed: The Norwegian music journalist Randi Hultin (1926–2000) opened her home to many of the great jazz legends. She documented her life in the company of artists such as John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Count Basie in the form of tens of thousands of photographs – pictures which are now held in the National […]
“Listening Session on OSTP Policy Guidance: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research”; “Wikipedia Editors Get Easier Access to Taylor & Francis Journals in Renewed Agreement”; and More Headlines
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News
JISC Releases Carbon Reduction Plan LinkedIn Prevails in 6-year Lawsuit Against Data Scraper (via IAPP) Listening Session on OSTP Policy Guidance: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research (via ARL) Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) Releases New Front-End Princeton University: Center For Information Technology Policy Launches the Digital Witness Lab Wikipedia Editors […]
Video Recording of a Mellon Foundation Event: “America is at the Library—Not Just the Ballot Box”
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Video Recordings
The Mellon Foundation event, “America is at the Library—Not Just the Ballot Box” was recorded on October 27, 2022. About the Event This livestream event features Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, American Library Association Executive Director Tracie Hall, and Los Angeles Public Library’s City Librarian, John Szabo. Voters soon head to the polls for one […]
Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2022! Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Launches “Digital Preservation for Small Businesses: An Introductory Guide” & Releases New Revision of BitList of Digitally Endangered Species
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From the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC): Continuing the theme Data For All, For Good, Forever from another celebration – iPres 2022 – World Digital Preservation Day showcases how digital preservation enables digits to flourish. “Data For All, For Good, Forever is a chance to connect practitioners and supporters in celebrating the positive impact digital preservation has had across all parts […]
Baltimore: Elisabeth Long Appointed Next Sheridan Dean of University Libraries, Archives, and Museums at Johns Hopkins University
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UPDATE: Elisabeth Long Appointed Sheridan Dean of University Libraries, Archives, and Museums at Johns Hopkins University (via Association of Research Libraries) From Johns Hopkins University: Elisabeth Long, a collaborative leader and a practiced book artist who has spent nearly 30 years in progressively responsible roles with the University of Chicago Library, has been appointed the […]
From WTAE: Ahead of Halloween, Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 got an inside look at the George A. Romero archives that are on public display at the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library. Romero is the iconic director behind the 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead.” “We wouldn’t have the zombie as we know it today […]
From a NARA Announcement: The National Archives Catalog now contains more than 200 million digitized pages. The Office of Innovation collaborated with offices across the National Archives, as well as external partners like Ancestry and FamilySearch, to reach this milestone in August. Technical upgrades that improved how the agency uploads images have been critical to meeting this […]
