MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2011
"BoxOffice" Continues to Expand Its Free Digital Archive of Archived Issues; Nearly 3000 Issues of the Film Industry Trade Pub Available
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Publishing, Reports, Resources
|Curt Hopkins at ReadWriteWeb reports that BoxOffice, one of the film industry’s long time trade publications, currently provides an archive back 91 years with about 3,000 digitized issues online and more are being added weekly. Access is free. From the Article: BoxOffice has been publishing movie news since its beginning in 1920 and continues today. […]
A Public Library In Indiana Adds Microsoft Tags To About 20,000 Bibliographic Records
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
|The tagging was done at the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library using Microsoft Tags (similar to QR codes). Here’s one small portion of an email interview by Microsoft’s Holly Richmond with EVPL Library Webmaster Josh Weiland and Community Relations & Development Officer Amy Mangold. The interview appears on the Microsoft Tag Blog. Tag (Holly Richmond): It […]
From the IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) Web Site: European picture agency organisation CEPIC has joined forces with standards body IPTC to produce the CEPIC/IPTC Image Metadata Handbook, which was launched on 20 May 2011 at the CEPIC Congress in Istanbul, Turkey. The Handbook, commissioned by CEPIC, is a PDF package of documents which includes […]
YouTube posted the 48 hour of video per minute upload number the other day on their Broadcasting Ourselves blog. Video Per Minute number represents a 37% increase vs. six months ago and 100% increase vs. one year ago. How many video views at YouTube each day? If you’re answer is BILLION you’re correct. It’s a […]
Ohio history is hot! This is the third post in the past week having something to do with the topic Today’s News From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Cleveland Historical app, [was] formally launched [Thursday] by the Department of History at Cleveland State University, so far contains 400 oral histories, 60 videos and more than […]
From a News Release Posted on Thursday: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today released a free online Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index with information and documents to support the launch and operation of an open-access journal. Materials in the index will help libraries, presses, and other academic units on campuses as […]
From the Europeana Blog: We are pleased to make available an exhibition provided by the Jewish Historical Museum (JHM). What makes this virtual exhibition so exciting is that it unveils some of the works in the unique exhibition From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania, 1910–1938 running from June 1 until October 2, […]
ILL and Doc Delivery Focus of June 2011 Issue of Research Library Issues (ARL, CNI, & SPARC0ILL and Doc Delivery Focus of June 2011 Issue of Research Library Issues (ARL, CNI, & SPARC)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Here’s What You’ll Find in Issue 275. PDF versions of all articles/news/calendar are also available. Complete Table of Contents Complete Issue (PDF) Direct to Articles and News Report of the Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices White Paper: International Interlibrary Loan White Paper: US Law and International Interlibrary Loan White Paper: […]
From Washington University in St.Louis: Policy advocates and groups looking at proposing legislation now have a budget-friendly tool that facilitates effective research of information from the 50 public domain state legislative databases. Created by researchers at the Prevention Research Center in St. Louis (PRC StL), the State Legislative Search Guide is designed for anyone interested […]
HP Launches Paul McCartney Private Digital Library; Collection Currently Has About 1 Million Items
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From HP: HP today announced the launch of Paul McCartney’s private cloud-based digital library. The HP solution provides MPL Communications, Ltd. with instant access to its diverse media assets on an HP Converged Infrastructure ready for future growth. McCartney’s collection currently includes more than 1 million items, including photographs; video footage from live concerts; rolls […]