MORE 'ARCHIVES-SPECIAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
Baltimore Metro: "Libraries Invite Patrons to Have a Coffee, Stay a While"
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From the Baltimore Sun: When Howard County unveils its new 63,000-square-foot library in December, patrons will be welcomed into a high-tech facility with a computer classroom and a historical center. Officials also plan a garden that they envision will be charming enough for weddings. Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library system will this month open its […]
UK: National Archives Releases Public Application Programming (API) Interface For 11m Records
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Journal Articles, News
|From Computer Weekly The National Archives [UK] has made details of 11m records available through an application interface it published today as part of an ongoing programme to get more official records online. The API allows anyone to search for and retrieve the metadata that describes records in the archive in XML format. The data […]
Digitized Newspapers: South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive is Now Available
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Resources
|From the Digital Library of Georgia Blog: The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive [Clip] The archive includes the following south Georgia newspaper titles: the Albany News (1870-1883), the Albany Patriot (1845-1866), the Americus Times Recorder (1881-1921), the Sumter Republican […]
Archives.com Begins Providing Access to Some U.S. Census Data & Pledges Money For More Digitization
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Resources
|From an <a href=”http://www.archives.com/blog/press/archivescom-adds-the-us-census.html”>Archives.com Blog Post:</a> Today, Archives.com announces the addition of the U.S. Federal Census, the single most valuable collection of U.S. historical records. The U.S. Census collections were made available by FamilySearch International, the world’s largest genealogy organization, as part of a joint effort to introduce more records to family historians worldwide. In […]
Library of Congress and Smithsonian Launch Civil Rights History Project Website
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From LC: The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) have launched The Civil Rights History Project at www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/. The portal presents the results of a nationwide inventory of oral-history interviews with participants in the civil rights movement. The research, […]
University of Georgia Libraries Prepares to Move Special Collections to New Building
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries
|From the Athens (GA) Banner-Herald: After years of planning and waiting, moving day is finally at hand for the University of Georgia’s main library on North Campus. A week from today, workers will begin moving thousands of boxes containing millions of items from the building into UGA’s nearly completed special collections library. [Clip] Librarians are […]
Australia: National Library Archives Graffiti Website
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, Preservation, Reports, Resources
|From NineMSN: The National Library has archived a graffiti website because it has social and cultural merit, the Herald Sun reports. The website boasts it has the nation’s largest online collection of street art photos, with more than 4000 images of graffiti and tags on trains and the streets, many taken in Melbourne. The newspaper […]
From The Guardian: The store has been built on a nuclear bunker site deep in the Warwickshire countryside and will be capable of holding more than 450,000 cans of the nation’s film – everything from Hitchcock to Ealing to Carry On. Robin Baker, head curator of the BFI national archive, said it was an important […]
From a NARA Statement: Assessments are continuing of the earthquake damage at the National Archives Washington National Records Center in Suitland, MD. Based on preliminary review by engineers, the facility will remain closed through Monday, August 29, 2011. A full review will determine when the facility will reopen. During an extensive walkthrough, National Archives Executive […]
Leonard Maltin discusses several finds available from the National Archives (incl. Universal Newsreel content) and are accessible online via CriticalPast.com (view online, free)*. One of the great film collections that has yet to be fully explored belongs to the citizens of the United States. The National Archives in Washington houses an enormous quantity of footage […]