MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Profile: “Carla D. Hayden Wants to Spread the Wonders of the Library Into Everyone’s Lives”
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Jobs, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From University of Chicago News: In the fall of 2016, Carla D. Hayden had just been confirmed as the 14th librarian of Congress—the first woman and the first African American to hold the position. Hayden, AM’77, PhD’87, was wandering the stacks in the James Madison Memorial Building, familiarizing herself with the vast collections under her charge (at […]
Journal Article: “Global Trends in Digital Preservation: Outsourcing Versus In-House Practices”
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS). Title Global Trends in Digital Preservation: Outsourcing Versus In-House Practices Authors Rafiq AhmadBacha Khan University, Pakistan Muhammad RafiqBacha Khan University, Pakistan Muhammad ArifUniversity of the Punjab, Pakistan Source Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS)DOI: 10.1177/09610006231173461 Abstract Digital preservation […]
Newspapers: “Dig Into History: Search the More Than 140 Years of Yale Daily News Now Online”
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|From the Yale Library: The library’s digital archive of Yale Daily News (YDN)—the nation’s oldest continuously published college daily—has expanded to include 3,306 more issues than it had just two years ago. There are now approximately 23,929 issues of YDN available in digital format—including occasional special issues and supplements—that users can search, view, and download in PDF […]
NARA: Dr. Colleen Shogan Assumes Office as 11th Archivist of the United States
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From the National Archives and Records Administration: Dr. Colleen Shogan assumed the role of Archivist of the United States today and, immediately after taking the oath of office, began her work as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). “It is an honor and a privilege to join the National Archives and […]
UC Berkeley University Librarian Jeff MacKie-Mason Announces Retirement Plans
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Scholarly Communications
|From the UC Berkeley Library: Today, Jeff MacKie-Mason, UC Berkeley’s university librarian, announced his retirement plans. In addition to overseeing the UC Berkeley Library system — comprising nearly two dozen locations — MacKie-Mason is a professor in UC Berkeley’s School of Information and an affiliate professor in the Department of Economics. MacKie-Mason will retire in […]
New Report: “‘Good, Better, Best’: Practices in Archiving & Preserving Open Access Monographs”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|From COPIM: Over the course of the COPIM Project, colleagues in Work Package 7 (Archiving & Preservation) have been working with the open access monograph publishing community, university libraries, and digital preservation experts to examine current archiving and preservation practices. Aligned to the principles of “scaling small”, key within COPIM overall, Work Package 7 has […]
From the Library of Congress: The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group has finalized the Third Edition of its influential Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials. The Working Group published a draft version of the Guidelines on the FADGI website in June 2022 for public review and comment. The working group received dozens […]
Digital Collections: Library of Congress Completes Digitization of Yongle Encyclopedia, Largest Reference Work of Pre-Modern Era
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Preservation, Reports
|From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has completed a yearslong effort to digitize the Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian 永樂大典), the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library’s collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world […]
Carnegie-Mellon Libraries: One Year Into Digitization Efforts Smith Gift Expands Digital Photograph; Sage Acquires the Titles of Business & Management Textbook Publisher, Chicago Business Press Collection; & More News Headlines
Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Carnegie-Mellon Libraries: One Year Into Digitization Efforts Smith Gift Expands Digital Photograph Collection Now Available: IFLA Principles for Responding to Conflict Sage Acquires the Titles of Business & Management Textbook Publisher, Chicago Business Press
New Online: Library of Congress Adds 39 Early Volumes to Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book Digital Collection
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From The Library of Congress: This week we’re excited to announce that the Library of Congress has added 39 additional volumes to our Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book Digital Collection! The latest batch of digitized volumes span from the first issue in 1859 to 1879, aside from a few months that are still in progress. They join the […]