MORE 'ARCHIVES-SPECIAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
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, […]
OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK to Survey Special Collections and Archives in Research Libraries Within the UK and Ireland"
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|From an OCLC Announcement: OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK are working together on a project to gather data on special collections in research libraries in the UK and Ireland. The project is similar to a project conducted by OCLC Research in 2009 that gathered data on special collections in the United States and Canada. […]
From a Guest Blog Post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress (via The Signal) Eleven years ago, the Library of Congress established a pilot web archiving project to study methods to evaluate, select, collect, catalog, provide access to and preserve at-risk born digital content for future generations. We could […]
New Research Paper: "How Much of the Web is Archived?"
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|“How Much of the Web is Archived?” (3 pages; PDF) by Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson Presented at JCDL 2011 Earlier This Month From a Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group (Old Dominion University) Blog Post: There are many questions to ask about web archiving […]
From Library and Archives Canada Cost: Free Direct to Database Web Site The Canadian Feature Film Database is based on the printed Index (Canadian Feature Film Index) begun in 1972. The Database based on the Index: compiles the principal credits of every Canadian feature film from 1913 to 2009 establishes a list of Canadian feature […]
New For Educators, Students, and Families: PBS Launches New Platform Loaded With Video, Audio, and Other Resources
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|Worth noting is that this resource includes material for PreK-Undergrad Level (Grade 16). You’ll need to register (less than a minute to complete) but all of the content is free for educators, students, and families. A premium service will go live this Fall. From a PBS News Release: PBS and WGBH, and their producing partners […]
Newspaper Digitization: NewsBank Plans to Digitize More Than 100 Years of The Daily Northwestern
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Resources, Special Libraries
|Here’s the story from Northwestern University located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston and Chicago, IL. Via The Daily Northwestern: Newsbank President and CEO Dan Jones approached Students Publishing Company, which publishes The Daily, about transforming the historical contents of The Daily dating back more than 100 years ago to a digital, searchable […]
UNESCO is Now Contributing Movies, Podcast, and Documents to iTunes University
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|From a UNESCO Announcement: By joining iTunes U, a dedicated area of the iTunes Store that offers free audio and video content from leading educational institutions, UNESCO is reinforcing its efforts to reach out to young men and women around the world, providing multilingual audio, visual and printed materials in education, sciences, culture and communication. […]
New York Public Library & Bibliocommons Partner To Build a New Online Catalog; Test Version Now Available
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|Congrats to the entire Bibliocommons team in YYZ (Toronto). From a NYPL Announcement: The New York Public Library has partnered with Toronto-based software company Bibliocommons to completely transform its current online catalog, making it easier to discover the Library’s vast collections while also giving users the power to create reading lists, rate the latest books, […]
Library and Archives Canada Marks the Opening of the New Nitrate Film Preservation Centre
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|From LAC: Library and Archives Canada today marked the official opening of the new Nitrate Film Preservation Centre in the west end of Ottawa. The Centre, located on the Communications Research Centre Canada campus, was constructed on time and within budget, resulting in measurable long-term benefits and savings. The “state-of-the-art” facility features a range of […]