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"NBC News Launches New Archive Site"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Management and Leadership, News
|From Broadcasting and Cable: NBC News is formally launching a new website, NBCUniversalArchives.com, that will allow customers to buy archive material from a number of divisions across NBCUniversal’s businesses, including NBC News, NBC Sports, NBC Entertainment, Universal Studios, Universal Pictures, Telemundo, The Weather Channel, NBC Radio, NBC Photobank and others. The effort is notable both […]
"e-Avatar for Dubai’s Public Library"
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Public Libraries
|From the Khaleej Times: Dubai’s and the Middle East’s first electronic library is a far cry from those of another era which housed dusty books on rusty bookshelves. “This is just an idea, the first step towards something big and different. The library has many e-services like different online databases that offer access to different […]
News Roundup: Archives, Linked Data, Maps, Social Media, and More (11 items)
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Maps, News, Roundup
|Archives “UK Government Web Archive receives billionth hit” A redesigned web archive is also now available. Linked Data “Significant Bibliographic Linked Data Release From The British Library” (via Talis Blog) “Linked Open British National Bibliography Preview” “Spoonfeeding Library Data to Search Engines” (via Go To Hellman) Maps Bing: “Updates to Our Road Map Style” (via Bing […]
New Digital Collection: History of Outdoor Advertising: "Roadside America, Then and Now" (27K Images)
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|From Duke University Libraries: Like them or not, billboards are part of the American landscape. They tell us where to fill up on gas, local peaches, and pecan logs. They encourage us to try new products. They display photos of wanted criminals and missing persons. They educate, entertain, and frustrate us, cluttering up the landscape […]
Now Available: D-Lib Magazine (July/August 2011; 17.8)
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing, Reports, Resources
|Here are links to articles in the new issue of D-Lib (July/August 2011). The editorial, conference reports, and news/events section are available at the bottom of the table of contents. Articles Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era Article by Michalis Gerolimos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece and Rania Konsta, Ionian University, […]
New Digital Archive Will Preserve Historic Images, Documents of Virginia Indian Tribes
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, News, Resources
|From a News Release: The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) will receive a grant of $150,000 from energy company, Dominion Resources to build the Commonwealth’s only online historical and cultural archive about Virginia’s Indian communities. The grant matches an additional award from the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation of $75,000. Virginia Indian Heritage Online will […]
Notre Dame Joins HathiTrust
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation, Resources
|From a Notre Dame News Release: The University of Notre Dame has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in compiling a massive digital library. Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries is a sustaining member and will work toward digitizing its unique collections. [Clip] Membership in HathiTrust is an […]
From the AP (via the Wall St. Journal) After police charged two men, including a presidential historian, with stealing millions of dollars in documents from the Maryland Historical Society, the FBI is asking other libraries and historical societies if the men have accessed their special collections and valuable documents. Read the Complete Article See Also: […]
JISC and Other UK Organizations Call For All UK Metadata to Be Openly Accessible
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, National Libraries, Resources
|From a JISC Announcement: Unlocking the descriptive information or metadata about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful, according to the JISC-funded resource discovery taskforce as it embarks on a new programme of work. If all UK metadata was made openly accessible, the taskforce says, then the resources […]
Digitization Project: Boston Television News Digital Archive (Material from 1959 to 2000)
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Reports, Resources, Special Libraries
|From a Boston Globe Article: Poring through the tapes and films stored in the archives vault at WGBH is like taking a tour of Boston history as it was captured on TV news broadcasts: Fidel Castro visits Boston in 1959; Martin Luther King Jr. marches in Roxbury in 1965; Barack Obama protests outside Harvard University […]