MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
Brown University: “Collaborative Project Yields New Digital Archive on Hidden History of Indigenous Enslavement”
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, News, Open Access
From Brown University: Scholars estimate that between 1492 and the 1900s, at least 2.5 million Indigenous people in the Americas were taken from their communities and forced into enslavement and servitude. Just like the transatlantic slave trade, the phenomenon shaped United States history — yet few schoolchildren learn about it today. That could change with […]
SF Chronicle: “Trump’s War on Information Meets a Dedicated Adversary: University Librarians”
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation
From The San Francisco Chronicle: More than 50,000 government webpages have been affected, according to an evolving snapshot by the End of Term Archive, a nonpartisan project that began in 2008 to record government websites at the end of each presidential term, and the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library formed nearly 30 years ago in San […]
California Digital Library (CDL) Releases Statement on Endorsing the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information (DORI)
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Scholarly Communications
From a CDL Post by John Chodaki: California Digital Library (CDL) is proud to formally endorse the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and commit to supporting and participating in open, transparent and community-governed research information systems. The values articulated in the Barcelona Declaration – openness, transparency, inclusivity and the commitment to public infrastructure – resonate deeply […]
New Version of UC Davis Library Digital Collections Site “Enhances Exploration of Digitized Library”
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From UC Davis Library: The UC Davis Library’s Digital Collections provides online access to digitized or born-digital materials from the UC Davis Library, with a focus on materials in the library’s Archives and Special Collections. The newly released version of the digital collections site offers more browsing options, easier access to collection-level information, and a book-style […]
From the California Digital Library (CDL): “Ebook Usability Report on Aggregator Platforms: A Case Study of EBSCO and ProQuest”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, EBSCO, Elsevier, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
From the California Digital Library (CDL): Following the University of California Ebook Usability Common Knowledge Group’s (EUCKG) analysis of 3 publisher platforms (Cambridge, Elsevier, and Wiley) and the publication of an initial report, the EUCKG received feedback to evaluate ebook aggregators to see how they perform against similar usability criteria. The criteria focuses on users’ […]
Music: New Digital Collection: The Papers of Pierre Boulez, 1971-1977
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, News
From The Violin Channel: To mark 100 years since the birth of the conductor and composer Pierre Boulez, the New York Philharmonic has released more than 13,000 archival documents that derive from Boulez’s tenure as the orchestra’s Music Director between 1971 and 1977. Many of the documents give an insight into Boulez’s priorities when planning programming for the orchestra. […]
Digital Collections: ISAW Library (NYU) Announces the Launch of the Digital South Caucasus Collection
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access
From NYU Libraries: The Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World announces the beta release of the Digital South Caucasus Collection. The Digital South Caucasus Collection (DSCC) preserves and provides open access to historical, archaeological, and ethnographic scholarship on the ancient South Caucasus, a region that today roughly coincides with the […]
Digital Collections: “War of the Worlds Fan Mail: Over 1,300 Letters Digitized, Open Access From University of Michigan Library
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access
From the University of Michigan: The University of Michigan Library has digitized, transcribed and categorized more than 1,300 fan letters sent in response to the 1938 broadcast of Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds.” The entire collection of letters, part of the university’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Collection, has been published open access for researchers […]
Report: The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem; Idaho Legislature’s Budget Committee Approves Half of Funding Proposed For Digital Library Grants; & More Headlines
| Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
AI Taylor & Francis to Make More Translated Books Available More Quickly Using Advanced AI The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (The Atlantic) British Library Groundbreaking British Library Development Confirmed (via BL) Idaho Idaho Legislature’s Budget Committee Approves Half of Funding Proposed For Digital Library Grants (via Idaho Capital Sun) Internet Archive Internet Archive […]
Report: “Boston Public Library Expands Access to Collections Through AI-Enhanced Digitization”
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
From the Boston Public Library (Full Text Announcement): The Boston Public Library (BPL) is launching a large-scale digitization project to unlock hundreds of thousands of historically significant items previously inaccessible to the public. This multi-phase effort will give BPL the opportunity to pilot the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make vast historical collections […]
