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"Visualising China" Launches; Access More Than 8,000 Digitised Historical Photos of China (1850-1950)
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|New from Bristol University (Funded by JISC) From the Visualising China Blog The site now allows users to explore more than 8000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950. It cross-searches metadata from Historical Photographs of China, the Sir Robert Hart Collection and Joseph Needham’s Photographs of Wartime China. [Our […]
Digitization Projects: "Google, Kenya Digitise Parliament Records"
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|From IT News Africa: Kenyans now have free online access to debates from the Hansards, a collection of debates that date back to the pre-independence Legislative Council. The earliest edition of the Hansard indexed is the Report of the Fourth Session of the Debates for the Legislative Council, dated November 24, 1959. Until currently, these […]
The Royal Library of Denmark is the Newest Member of The Commons on Flickr
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|From the Flickr Blog: The Royal Library is Denmark’s national library, the library for the University of Copenhagen and it’s also the largest library in the Nordic region. [Clip] The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world’s public photography archives and secondly to show how […]
New Federated Search Tool Provides Access to Records From the Online Catalogues of Ten UK Film Archives
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|From a British Universities Film & Video Council Blog Post: The data from some of the major national and regional film archives in the UK can now be searched through an integrated engine currently in beta test phase under the name Your Film Archives. Funded by DCMS, it includes content from Amber Films, BFI National […]
Digitization: U. of Arizona Libraries' Special Collections Completes Work on a New Digital Collection and Now Available Online
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|From UANews.org: The Jack Sheaffer Photograph Digital Collection, which spans three decades of southern Arizona’s history, is now available online via the UA’s Special Collections. Jack Sheaffer’s 1950-1970s-era images illustrate Tucson and southern Arizona’s history during a time of explosive growth. The University of Arizona’s Special Collections, which regularly digitizes selections from its holdings to […]
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus in SKOS/RDF Format
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|From LAC: Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce a new downloadable version of the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus in SKOS/RDF format. The Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is a bilingual thesaurus consisting of terminology that represents all the fields covered in the information resources of the Government of Canada. Library […]
From the National Security Archive at George Washington University: Forty-five years after President Johnson signed the U.S. Freedom of Information Act into law in 1966, federal agency backlogs of FOIA requests are growing, with the oldest requests at eight agencies dating back over a decade and the single oldest request now 20 years old, according […]
AASL Announces 2011 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
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|From ALA: At the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2011 Annual Conference in New Orleans, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced the 2011 Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning. In its third year, the list of websites honors the top 25 Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development for school librarians and […]
Digitization Projects: Bancroft Library to Expand Documentation of Japanese Americans' World War II
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|From a University of California, Berkeley, Announcement: The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received two grants from the U.S. National Park Service to expand its efforts documenting the World War II era experiences of Japanese Americans. A $50,000 grant will underwrite work by The Bancroft’s Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) to […]
From a Tweet and Web Page by Heritage Vancouver Society: The Heritage Vancouver Society wishes everyone a happy Canada Day. To help celebrate in vintage air, we’ve digitised two Edison phonograph cylinder recordings, dating from 1909 and 1914: The Maple Leaf Forever (1909 recording) The Maple Leaf Forever, written by Alexander Muir (1830-1906) in 1867, […]