MORE 'ARCHIVES-SPECIAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
Archivist of the United States Announces Agency Restructuring and New Appointments
| Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
From a NARA Announcement: Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero recently announced several key appointments to begin a major transformation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The new appointments follow an internal report, A Charter for Change: Charting the Course, which recommended changes to the organizational structure and culture of the National […]
New from GAO: National Archives: Framework Governing Use of Presidential Library Facilities and Staff
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
From the Summary of a New GAO Report: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) operates presidential libraries for all of the former U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover. These libraries received over 2.4 million visits in 2009, including researchers, public program attendees, and museum visitors. Each library is associated with a private foundation, which raised […]
"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Resources
From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. […]
"Full-Text Search Capability Not Without Problems, Scholars Say"
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Resources
by Phil Ciciora, University of Illinois News Bureau From the Article: The perception that plugging a few keywords into Google will yield a universe of relevant information is somewhat mistaken, say Kathryn LaBarre and Carol L. Tilley, professors of library and information science at Illinois. [Our emphasis] “There’s a lot of excitement about the availability […]
From the Homepage: The Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of American and British actors and actresses. The Collection is one of several housed in the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries’ Department of Special Collections on the campus to the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). This […]
"Digital Library of Georgia Makes Civil War, Civil Rights Accessible"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
From The Newnan Times-Herald: From the Civil War to Civil Rights — and on to the present — the Digital Library of Georgia chronicles the evolving relationships between black and white Georgians. While the DLG is physically located on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, its electronic presence is available to anybody […]
Slides, Notes, and Tweets From Day One of the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Reports, Resources
The 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference began on Thursday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. You can find the complete conference schedule here. + Tweets from the conference are using the hashtag #pda2011. + Session Notes by Diana Wakimoto (via The Waki Librarian) Hat Tips & Thanks: Bill Lefurgy and Scott Rosenberg More reports, […]
Canada: Television Archives: TVO Launches Digital Public Archive Online
| Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, News, Podcasts
TVO, public/educational television from Ontario, has just launched a new online video archive with material their first 40 years of broadcasting. At the present time the archive ncludes over 325 programs and segments with more to come. You can keyword search for shows or browse collections or the most viewed programs, programs new to the […]
Twitter Archive TwapperKeeper Will Continue Online But Lose a Useful Feature
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, News, Patrons and Users, Resources
TwapperKeeper is a service allowing users to create personalized and permanent archives of tweets. Users can create archives based on keywords, hashtags, and from specific users. The basic service is free. Many use the service to archive tweets from conferences they are organizing or attending. TwapperKeeper also offers keyword searching and direct permalinks. Another feature […]
University of Missouri: "MU Libraries Emphasize Digital Archives"
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
From an Article Appearing in The Maneater (Student Paper at the University of Missouri): The library both digitizes collections it already has and purchases new material that originates online, such as online journals and databases. The process of digitization is funded partly through grants. Students and scholars have gravitated toward online resources because of their […]
