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"Hebrew University's Einstein Archives To Go Online"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From an Article by Ben Hartman (Jerusalem Post): Albert Einstein will go digital in the coming months, as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem begins a project to digitize the German-Jewish physicist’s archives. The digitization is expected to take around one year and then the over 80,000 documents will be available on the Albert Einstein Archives […]
Video: "Reinventing the Research Library: The MIT Libraries in the 21st Century"
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|This video was made available on February 28, 2011 via MIT TechTV. It runs close to nine minutes. The essential role of MIT’s libraries in supporting research, teaching, and student life at MIT continues to evolve. How do the Libraries meet the needs of the MIT community “wherever and whenever” they need library resources? This […]
"Ontario's history goes digital"
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
|From an Article in the Ottawa Citizen: An article about the Knowledge Ontario’s Community Digitization Project (CDP). The CDP is the result of a $15-million grant from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture to the Southern Ontario Library Services and Ontario Library Services North. The project began in August 2009 after Our Ontario, the […]
After a day of pre-conferences on Wednesday the WebWise 2011 conference got underway today in Charm City (aka Baltimore). A signature initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the WebWise Conference annually brings together representatives of museums, libraries, archives, systems science, education, and other fields to explore the many opportunities made possible by […]
How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, Resources
|How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools To date, federal agencies have largely been on their own in terms of how to manage records created via social media tools. This historically decentralized approach has resulted in some agencies banning the use of social media while other agencies have rapidly […]
Video: Presidential Libraries: "Preserving Presidential History"
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Via C-SPAN.org: In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt donated his personal and presidential papers to the Federal Government. As a result, the Presidential Library system was formally established. Yet, the dilemma of presenting the history of former presidents has not been without controversy. The preparation of a new Watergate exhibit at the Nixon Presidential Library is one […]
From a Journalism.co.uk Post by Sarah Marshall: An archive of broadcasts from BBC World Service radio stations due to be axed is being made available online. Services involved in the archive plans include BBC Para Africa, the Portuguese service for Africa, which has made audio and photos from its 72-year-history available on its website. A […]
U.S. Government: "Stripped-Down Digital Records Archive Set to Debut"
Archives and Special Collections, Dashboards, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
|From a Federal Times Article: The National Archives and Records Administration’s Electronic Records Archive (ERA), after years of delays, will launch at three agencies this month, but will have fewer capabilities than originally planned. The State, Justice and Health and Human Services departments will be the first to fully access the system to transfer electronic […]
Digitisation Projects: South Africa: Google to Help Digitise Madiba [Nelson Mandela] and Tutu Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, News, Resources
|From the Official News Release: Google has today announced a $1,25 million (ZAR 8,6 million rand) grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, housed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of […]
From ComputerWeekly.com The open source tool, called Droid (Digital Record Object Identification) has been designed to scan millions of files at a time and identify hundreds of different file formats, including most document, audio, video and image files in common use. Droid can identify more than 770 formats, using a combination of file format extensions […]