MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2014
Reference: New Geospatial Site Provides Ongoing Awareness of Natural Hazards in U.S.
Data Files, Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Patrons and Users
|From the U.S. Dept. of the Interior: A new Interior Department website offers the public as well as federal, state and local emergency management communities online maps containing the latest available information on earthquakes, earthquake shakemaps, streamflow data and floods, volcanoes and wildfires, as well as information on severe weather hazards. The Interior Geospatial Emergency Management System (IGEMS), […]
Harvard Library’s Judaica Division Awarded $1 Million to Digitize News Agency Photo Archive
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From the Harvard Library: The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation of New York has awarded the Judaica Division of the Harvard Library a grant of $1 million. The grant is for the digitization of the Division’s recently acquired photo archive of Israel Sun Ltd., a photo news agency in Israel. This archive consists of well over […]
Two More Reports on Canadian Government Library Closings (Including List of Closed Libraries)
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Government Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|Two reports including a list of Canadian government library closings since 2012. Note: This Article Includes a List of Canadian Government Libraries Closed Since 2012 From Post Media News/Canada.com: When Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration library closed its doors in the fall of 2012, head librarian Charlene Elgee wasn’t just worried about the loss of her job. […]
A Multi-Faceted ProQuest and ExLibris Collaboration Announced
Ex Libris, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
|From a Joint Announcement Out of Ann Arbor and Jerusalem: ProQuest Database and Ebook Content via ExLibris Primo The most immediate benefit for mutual [ProQuest and ExLibris] customers will be the indexing of dozens of ProQuest’s most widely used content databases in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources. When the first […]
The National Library of Ireland is Looking for a New Director
Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|Even if you’re not going to apply for the position it’s interesting to read take a look at the requirements and skills the library is looking to find. From NLI: The National Library of Ireland is a major national cultural institution providing library and research services to a wide range of users. It is a […]
HathiTrust Publishes 2013 Year in Review Report
Digital Preservation, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|The HathiTrust 2013 Year in Review report was recently made available on the HT web site. Direct to Full Text of HathiTrust 2013 Year in Review ||| PDF Version (7 pages) Selected Highlights from the Report HathiTrust Partners Contributed 278,766 Volumes to the Repository 263,525 of these are in the Public Domain 14 New Partners Joined HT Collaborations […]
Car Bomb Causes Severe Structural Damage to Egypt’s National Library
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From Ahram Online: The car bomb which gutted Cairo’s central police headquarters early on Friday morning has also caused severe structural damage to Egypt’s National Library and Archives (NLA), located across the street from the security directorate targeted in the blast. Minister of Culture Saber Arab told Ahram Online that all the NLA’s lighting and ventilation […]
Greece: Digitization Projects: Public Television Archives Go Online
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News
|From The Greek Reporter: Prestigious Greek shows, documentaries, reportages, invaluable sound files from the radio broadcast archive as well as photographs from the ERT Poulidis and Sarrikostas archives are available online for anyone who wishes to visit the website, recording the highlights of modern Greek history. It also provides access to all the metadata for approximately 450,000 […]
Gale Extends Digital Preservation Partnership With Portico
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From Portico: Gale and Portico today announced an extension of their relationship to preserve the majority of Gale’s remaining digital archives. Among those to be preserved and added to Portico’s D-Collection Service are The Times Digital Archive, Slavery & Anti-Slavery (Parts I-IV), State Papers Online (Parts I-IV) and the entire back file of Archives Unbound, […]
Here’s a new report released today by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. From the JGCC: What do parents really think about the educational value of their children’s screen media use? A national survey of more than 1500 parents of children ages 2-10 by The Joan Ganz Cooney Center finds that more than half of parents […]