MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2012
Note: The new RTÉ Archives web site launched last week. Along with the video, 90,000 stills are also available for online viewing. Plus, the site contains a video tour of the archives. From The Irish Film and Television Network: RTÉ has launched its new free-to-view archives website as part of its ongoing celebrations of its […]
New Article from The Economist on Libraries and eBooks
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|New article available in the 7/28 print issue and online. Here are three paragraphs from the article. Publishers were miffed when OverDrive teamed up with Amazon, the world’s biggest online bookseller, last year. Owners of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader who want to borrow e-books from libraries are now redirected to Amazon’s website, where they must use […]
Direct to the CIA’s Mobile Site at: https://www.CIA.gov/mobile. From the CIA’s Announcement: Readers can now access mobile-friendly versions of CIA.gov materials on their small screens: About CIA: Quick facts about our leadership, mission, and history. CIA Museum: Artifacts and stories from the CIA Museum, whose brick-and-mortar location is closed to the public. Press Releases and […]
Digital Public Library of America Receives $1 Million Award From National Endowment for the Humanities
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|From NEH: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced a $1 million award to support the incorporation and launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a groundbreaking project that seeks to digitize and bring together the contents of our nation’s libraries and archives, and make them freely available to all online. […]
The report was released earlier today by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and CLIR’s Digital Library Federation program. Title Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries Author Geneva Henry Source Council on Library and Information Resources Abstract This study examines the core infrastructure elements of systems that manage large quantities of digital […]
In early June we mentioned that the U.S. Census was planning to launch a public API (Application Programming Interface) for developers. Today, a formal announcement was made and the API is now ready for all to use. From the Announcement: The U.S. Census Bureau today released a new online service that makes key demographic, socio-economic […]
Harvard Posts Drafts of New Library Procedures
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|Since many of you are closely following The Harvard Library transition here are direct links to drafts of new library procedure documents that were posted earlier this week on the transition web site. All of the links go direct to PDF files. Access Services Circulation Administrative Services Collection Management Resource Sharing Preservation, Conservation and Digital […]
From an ANSI Announcement: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has released a workshop report on the status of the redevelopment of NSSN, the search engine for standards. The report focuses on efforts to rework NSSN to make it easier for stakeholders and standards developing organizations (SDOs) to have access to information that may help […]
From The NY Times: If you’re visiting Copenhagen, chances are you can rent a bicycle from your hotel. Or you can head down to the Bicycle Innovation Lab, home to the city’s new “bicycle library.” There, once you have put down a 500-krone ($80) returnable deposit, you can check out any of the bikes on […]
From the Lincoln Journal Star: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln dean of libraries will step down this summer after 16 years to take on a new administrative assignment, the university announced this week. “I am intensely proud of the things we have accomplished together and I’m excited about the next phase of advancement for the UNL […]