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Digital Collections: Brown Library Fortifies Latin American Collaborative Venture
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|From the University of Texas at Austin: A project aimed at building a major research tool for the global study of Latin America at The University of Texas at Austin has just gotten a significant new academic partner. The John Carter Brown Library (JCBL) at Brown University will join the Primeros Libros project, which strives […]
New Article: "Improving Public Policymaking with the Help of Digital Archives"
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|Title: “Improving Public Policymaking with the Help of Digital Archives” By Robert E. Wright Source: The Readex Report (6.3; September 2011) Old-fashioned research combined with new-fashioned digital searching techniques, especially in Readex’s newspaper and imprints databases, shows that U.S. corporate governance was relatively strong in the seven decades between ratification of the Constitution and the […]
New from U. of Victoria Libraries: Anarchists Go Digital as Online Archive Launches
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|From Mediacaster: The new Anarchist Archive online resource launched earlier this month, building on collaborative efforts among Dr. Allan Antliff, Canada Research Chair in Modern Art, and the University of Victoria, MacPherson Library Special Collections and Archives. The online collection contains political posters, letters and papers, journals, art work and video and audio recordings. The resources […]
Robots and Digitization: "Digitizing a Visual History of Baltimore"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Resources
|From the The Gazette (Johns Hopkins University): More DIY than R2D2, a student-invented robot will help preserve and archive 115 years of photographic black history in Baltimore, and could soon be made available to museums and archives around the country. Thomas Smith, creator of the robot named Gado, spent a good portion of his senior […]
Smithsonian Institution Archives Launches a New Website
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|From a News Release: The Smithsonian Institution Archives announces the launch of its new website, http://siarchives.si.edu, with new features and improved access to collections. First launched in 1995, the website has been redesigned to maximize public access to the Archives’ rich collections that document the history of the Smithsonian and its role in the arts, […]
New: Frick Art Reference Library Photo Archive Records Now Accessible Online
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|From Art Daily: The Frick Art Reference Library and its partners in the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)—the libraries of The Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum—are pleased to announce that through a complex process of data migration, all of the Photoarchive’s research database records created since 1996 (and all future records […]
UK: RLUK Appoints a new Unique and Distinctive Collections Project Manager
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Jobs, Libraries
|Cool job title! Interesting idea. From RLUK: RLUK has appointed Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, to the position of Unique and Distinctive Collections Project Manager. The aim of this specialised part-time role is to help maximise the potential of unique and distinctive collections (UDCs) in all formats held by RLUK […]
New Issue Online: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (6.3, 2011)
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|Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) is published at the University of Alberta. It’s an open access publication. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Selected Articles Situating Student Learning in Rich Contexts: A Constructionist Approach to Digital Archives Education by Anthony Cocciolo An Examination of Library Anxiety at Cape Breton University by Lenard J. […]
Interviews With Five Metadata Experts
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|DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) 2011 Conference gets underway next week in The Hague and the conference web site is home to interviews with DCMI leaders and conference speakers. + Emmanuelle Bermès, Modern Art Museum Centre Pompidou Metadata and semantic web expert Emmanuelle Bermès is a keynote speaker at this year’s Dublin Core conference in […]
Another New Experimental Resource from OCLC Research: ArchiveGrid
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|From a HangingTogether Blog Post by Jim Michalko: Those of you in the archive or research library world may be familiar with ArchiveGrid®, a database and discovery service that grew out of RLG’s Archival Resources service which leveraged all the collection level descriptions in the union catalog and aggregated the encoded finding aids that institutions […]