MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
Dr. Adriene Lim to Retire as Dean of the University of Maryland Libraries, June 2024
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|From the University of Maryland (Full Text): Today, the University of Maryland announced the upcoming retirement of Dr. Adriene Lim, dean of University of Maryland Libraries. In the campus message, Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice noted that Dean Lim “has been a tireless leader for the Libraries, helping to achieve the Libraries’ substantial […]
Report: “Toronto Public Library Facing Disruptions Due to Cyberattack”
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|UPDATED POST (December 21, 2023) Toronto Public Library Service Reductions Projected To Last Months After Ransomware Attack (via Globe and Mail) UPDATED POST (November 29, 2023) Public Libraries: A Month After A Cyber Attack Took Out Many Toronto Public Library Services, A Library Manager Speaks Out (via CBC) UPDATED POST (November 24, 2023) Toronto Public […]
The Digital Florentine Codex: A Rare 500-Year-Old Manuscript Gets a Second Life Online
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|From the Getty Research Institute: After seven years and the efforts of dozens of specialists from around the world, the Florentine Codex, the most important manuscript surviving from early colonial Mexico and rich in pre-colonial Indigenous knowledge, is now available to explore online with new translations and features. The Florentine Codex (so named because it resides […]
Digital Collections: Over 60 Chaucer Manuscripts Now Available Online From the British Library
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|From the British Library: We hold the world’s largest surviving collection of Chaucer’s works, and this year we have reached a major milestone. Thanks to generous funding provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Peck Stacpoole Foundation, and the American Trust for the British Library, the Library has completed the digitisation of all of […]
Digitized Document Collection from U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee Now Publicly Available Through National Library of Medicine (NLM)
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|From the National Library of Medicine: A collection of reproduced documents from the 1932 study by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) on the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men at Tuskegee Institute is now available as a digitized collection through the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee was conducted […]
New DLF Blog Post: “Issues in Authority Control: Case Studies in Name Authority Records and Platform User Experience Design”
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|From the Digital Library Federation (DLF) This post was written by members of the DLF Assessment Interest Group’s (AIG) Metadata Working Group (MWG). Learn more about the Assessment Interest Group. This collaborative think piece addresses several concerns with metadata authority control: Name authority records User interface and data display in digital collections Defining controlled fields and […]
Springer Nature Announces Transformative Agreement (TA) in Hong Kong With All Member Libraries of Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee; ‘Hadestown’ Comes to the Library of Congress To Make Music and History; & More News Headlines
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|British Museum British Museum to Digitise Collectiona as Over Two Million Objects are Found to be Undocumented (via The Art Newspaper) Colorado Denver Post Report: “Garfield County Leaders Tell Library to Keep ‘Pornographic Materials’ Away From Kids in Latest Salvo Over Japanese Graphic Novels” Germany Wiley and German DEAL Consortium to Sign New 5-Year Agreement […]
New Report: “Assessment of the Library of Congress’s Digital Strategy”
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|From the Office of the Inspector General, Library of Congress: The Library’s digital planning and execution activities have resulted in numerous accomplishments. Despite these achievements, more work remains to clearly connect the Digital Collections Strategy and Digitization Strategy to the Library’s overall strategic planning and governance processes. Not doing so puts the Library at greater […]
New Online Resource: University of Maryland Libraries Announces Online Launch of the “Advancing Workers’ Rights” Digital Collection
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|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Annoucement From the University of Maryland Libraries: The University of Maryland Libraries announces the debut of a significant, newly digitized collection, making available online for the first time tens of thousands of records documenting the intersection of the labor and civil rights movements in the United States. Featuring materials from the […]
Andrea Jackson Gavin Appointed Inaugural Program Director of the HBCU Digital Library Trust
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|Below is the Full Text of the Announcement Letter (via the Harvard Library): We are delighted to announce the appointment of Andrea Jackson Gavin as the inaugural Program Director of the HBCU Digital Library Trust, effective October 11, 2023. The Trust is a partnership of the HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Library to sustain and deepen […]