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"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 […]
"New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers"
Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From the NY Times: …Leary’s research, was in one of the 335 boxes of papers, videotapes, photographs and more that the New York Public Library is planning to announce that it has purchased from the Leary estate. The material documents the evolution of the tweedy middle-aged academic into a drug guru, international outlaw, gubernatorial candidate, […]
Montreal: "Revolutionary Book Scanner Makes Its Debut at McGill Library"
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From a News Release: The McGill University Library has “gone digital” with five entry level book2net Spirit book scanners and one larger, more sophisticated Book2Net Kiosk device. In place as of one year ago, the Book2Net Kiosk is stationed in McGill’s Rare Books and Special Collections department. Up until recently, this was the only book […]
Full Text of Statement by LC, NAL, and NLM Execs Endorsing Recommendations for Implementation of New RDA
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|From an Announcement: The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the Library of Congress (LC) announce an agreement regarding the implementation of RDA (Resource Description and Access), new cataloging rules published in June 2010 to replace […]
Henry Kissinger Will Donate His Papers to Yale
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From the AP: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped steer Vietnam war policy, will donate his collection of some one million documents and objects covering his life as a diplomat, teacher and private citizen to Yale University. Yale President Richard Levin said Wednesday the collection will enhance Yale’s archives of 20th century […]
For Insititutional Customers: "Over 100 Years of Scientific American Available Online"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, News, Publishing
|From a News Release: The Scientific American archive brings together over 100 years of content highlighting advancements in science, technology, and medicine. Institutional customers can now access every issue of Scientific American back to January 1910. Scientific American, part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), entrusted the scanning and digitization of most of the paper archives […]
From Roll Call: The National Archives could be just months away from starting a long-planned project to create for the first time a searchable digital log of the archives of Congress. The project, which had been discussed for about six years, would essentially catalog Congressional records dating back to 1789 and create a database where […]
NARA: National Archives and Presidential Libraries Release Pentagon Papers; Direct URL Available
Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From NARA: On June 13, 2011, the National Archives and the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon Presidential Libraries will release in its entirety the official Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force (commonly referred to as the Pentagon Papers). This is the 40th anniversary of the leak of these Papers by […]
From a Blog Post on CIO.gov by Michael Wash, CIO, NARA The “Cloud First” initiative has been a focus for NARA. We are developing a cloud email pilot and using a hosted/cloud-based solution to streamline our Security Clearance Tracking System. We are also moving to a hosted/cloud solution in order to concurrently manage and track […]