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National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH) Announces $41.3 Million For 280 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment For the Humanities: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $41.3 million in grants for 280 humanities projects across the country. These grants will support a documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson on the life, work, and legacy of jazz legend Sun Ra; the creation of a set of linked […]
Record Labels Including Universal Music Group and Sony Music Sue Internet Archive Over Digitized Record Collection
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|At the bottom of this post we will be updating with additional reports, statements, and reactions. Latest Update 8/14: Statement: Internet Archive Responds to Lawsuit From Reuters: Universal Music Group , Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music […]
Joint Proposal For Next Steps in Hachette et al v. Internet Archive Case Submitted Today
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|We Will Continue to Update This Post with Additional Materials, Press Reports, etc. as they become available. Look for them at the bottom of this post. Latest Update: 11:55am; September 11, 2023: Internet Archive Files Notice of Appeal to the United States Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit Statement From Brewster Kahle: Internet Archive […]
The Hip Hop Historians Who Are Racing to Preserve Its Story (via WIRED); Wolters Kluwer Announces Collaboration with CLOCKSS; & More Headlines
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Culture The Hip Hop Historians Who Are Racing to Preserve Its Story (via WIRED) Digital Preservation Wolters Kluwer Announces Collaboration with CLOCKSS: Collaboration Will Provide a Sustainable Online Archive of Wolters Kluwer’s Legal Content Open Data Who Re-Uses Data? A Bibliometric Analysis of Dataset Citations (preprint) (via arXiv) Project ReSHARE ReShare Update: Scoping, Membership, Finances, […]
Report: Stanford’s Role in the Quest to Save Video Games
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|From Stanford University: Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had an important role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations. Lowood is also a leading game historian and writer on software preservation, authoring numerous articles and papers that were recently republished in a […]
CLOCKSS Posts Annual Update 2022-23; Beth McNeil Assumes ACRL Presidency; & More News Headlines
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|ACRL Beth McNeil Assumes ACRL Presidency (via Purdue U.) Digital Preservation CLOCKSS Posts Annual Update 2022-23 Florida As School Libraries Face More Scrutiny, Public Libraries are Feeling the Pressure as Well (via WUSF) Missouri A Missouri Library Board Limits Teens From Getting a Library Card Without a Parent In Tow (via KCUR) Research Data Alliance RDA […]
IMLS Announces $20 Million Investment in U.S. Library and Archive Initiatives (64 Project Awards via National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program)
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|From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 64 awards totaling $20,363,297 to support libraries and archives across the country. The FY 2023 awards were made through National Leadership Grants for Libraries and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The awarded grants search on the IMLS website contains a complete […]
From the San Francisco Chronicle: It took 85 nights of discomfort as rotating groups of students slept on the hard floor of the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library they were determined to rescue. It’s what anthropologists do, like field work. Then, to shout-outs from around the world, on July 15 the activist anthropologists posted […]
Digital Preservation: Swiss National Library Starts Collecting Wikipedia Articles
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|From Swissinfo.ch: The Swiss National Library is building a digital collection of Wikipedia articles related to Switzerland. The articles are to be permanently archived for future generations and made freely available online. To this end, the National Library is working with Wikimedia, the association for the promotion of free knowledge, Wikimedia said in a statement on Monday. […]
Texas Digital Newspaper Program Reaches Huge Milestone, 10 Million Digitized Pages of Newspapers!
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|From the University of North Texas Libraries: On July 7, 2023, the Texas Digital Newspaper Program reached 10 million pages of newspapers. These are newspapers digitally preserved, freely accessible, and fully text-searchable in The Portal to Texas History, hosted by University of North Texas Libraries. Who makes the Texas Digital Newspaper Program possible? Encompassing 912,623 newspaper issues, the […]