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New York Public Library & Bibliocommons Partner To Build a New Online Catalog; Test Version Now Available
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|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
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation
|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 […]
New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture Launches Database of More Than 2000 Vintage Photographs
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Reports, Resources
|From NJ.com: An online data – and image bank describing more than 7,000 vintage photographs produced by the Department of Agriculture to document farming in New Jersey from the late 19th century through the 1970s has been created. Of these, more than 2,000 photos have been scanned and are now publicly viewable in the image […]
New Resource From UC Berkeley: California Language Archive Offers Web Accessible Materials
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, News, Resources
|From the UC Berkeley News Service: As of [yesterday], much of the University of California, Berkeley’s vast language resources is accessible, free of charge, to anyone with Internet access via the new California Language Archive (CLA) website and its catalog of UC Berkeley materials – the largest indigenous language archive at a U.S. university. The […]
Archives: Northern Michigan University Digitizes Thousands of Historic Mining Documents and Photos
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Reports, Resources
|From WLUC-TV: [Northern Michigan] University’s (NMU) Archiving Department recently scanned and posted over 70,000 documents relating to CCI’s (Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company) annual reports and lumber company. They also scanned over 500 maps and 200 photographs. It took the staff of five over a year to scan and touch up the documents. NMU acquired the records […]
New: Review More Than 60 "Statements of Interest" Submitted For Digital Public Library of America "Beta Sprint"
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Public Libraries, Resources
|Six weeks ago we posted info about the Digital Public Library of America [DPLA] project announcing plans for a “Beta Sprint” to “encourage the development of demonstrations of what such a service might look like.” The deadline to submit a “Statement of Interest” ended last week and now you can review the 60+ submissions on […]
How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, News, Preservation, Profiles, Video Recordings
|How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools The nation’s most precious document, the Declaration of Independence, has a storied history surrounding its conservation. Although it has faded badly due to poor preservation techniques during the 19th century, it is still available for viewing in the rotunda of the National […]
Digitization Projects: "University of Iowa Puts 1860s Diaries Online"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
|From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: A collection of pocket-sized diaries from the 1860s has created an Internet sensation for the University of Iowa library. The diaries are part of the library’s Civil War collection employees have been working on for more than two years, digitizing pages in time for the war’s 150th anniversary in April. […]
"4 Stars for Metadata: an Open Ranking System for Library, Archive, and Museum Collection Metadata"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From a Post on the Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data Blog (Cross-Posted on Open Knowledge Foundation Blog and the Creative Commons Blog) This post was written by participants of the LOD-LAM Summit which was held on June 2nd/3rd in San Francisco and is crossposted on the Creative Commons blog and the OKFN blog. The […]
Library and Archives Canada: 2011-2012 Report on Plans and Priorities
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|Full Text Report From Section One of the Report: LAC and similar memory institutions in Canada, such as archives and libraries, are asking hard questions about what documentary heritage we should acquire, preserve and make available—not just for present-day users but for people in 50 or 100 years who want to understand the Canada of […]