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Digital Preservation: Swiss National Library Starts Collecting Wikipedia Articles
Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Preservation
|From Swissinfo.ch: The Swiss National Library is building a digital collection of Wikipedia articles related to Switzerland. The articles are to be permanently archived for future generations and made freely available online. To this end, the National Library is working with Wikimedia, the association for the promotion of free knowledge, Wikimedia said in a statement on Monday. […]
Texas Digital Newspaper Program Reaches Huge Milestone, 10 Million Digitized Pages of Newspapers!
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries
|From the University of North Texas Libraries: On July 7, 2023, the Texas Digital Newspaper Program reached 10 million pages of newspapers. These are newspapers digitally preserved, freely accessible, and fully text-searchable in The Portal to Texas History, hosted by University of North Texas Libraries. Who makes the Texas Digital Newspaper Program possible? Encompassing 912,623 newspaper issues, the […]
Report: “87% Missing: The Disappearance of Classic Video Games”
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|From the Video Game History Foundation: The Video Game History Foundation, in partnership with the Software Preservation Network, has conducted the first ever study on the commercial availability of classic video games, and the results are bleak. 87% of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangered. Imagine if the only way to watch Titanic was to […]
Digitization Projects: University of Hawaii at Mānoa Library Makes Rare 200-year-old Japanese Scrolls Accessible Worldwide
Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From the University of Hawaii Mānoa Library: Students and scholars at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa (and worldwide) can now easily access and view the fine details of rare, hand-painted Japanese scrolls, made possible by UH Mānoa Library’s new state-of-the-art digitization lab. The scrolls titled 鯨魚鑬笑録 (Geigyo ranshōroku), or “A simple overview of whaling” were created […]
A New Leadership Brief From the Urban Libraries Council (ULC): “Libraries as Cornerstones of Democracy”
Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Public Libraries
|From the Urban Libraries Council: Today, the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) published a new Leadership Brief — Libraries as Cornerstones of Democracy. This timely publication outlines the vital work public libraries are performing to ensure all community members are informed and active in protecting democracy and intellectual freedom. Libraries as Cornerstones of Democracy urges library executives to embody the […]
ACRL Shares 2023 Legislative Agenda; A Request for Comment: Automatic Digital Preservation and Self-Healing DOIs; & More News Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries
|Arkansas Central Arkansas Library System Collects $25,000 in Private Donations to Fund Censorship Lawsuit (via Arkansas Times) Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) ACRL Shares 2023 Legislative Agenda Crossref A Request for Comment: Automatic Digital Preservation and Self-Healing DOIs Public Libraries NYC Public Libraries Likely to Avoid Cuts in Upcoming NYC Budget (via Gothamist)
Lindsay Cronk Named Tulane University’s New Dean of Libraries
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Elsevier, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From Tulane University Libraries: Lindsay Cronk, a distinguished leader, innovator and visionary who has worked on both the corporate and the academic sides of librarianship, has accepted the appointment as the new dean of Tulane University Libraries, effective August 1, 2023. An internationally recognized expert in scholarly communication strategies, Cronk’s library leadership has delivered impactful and […]
Core Releases Library Binding Survey Report
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|From Core/ALA: The Core Preservation Administration Interest Group (PAIG) has released the 2022 Core Library Binding Survey: A Report of Findings to highlight national library binding practices. After the 2022 PAIG Symposium on the Future of Library Binding, the Core Library Binding Survey Project Team was convened to explore issues that arose during the event. Team members volunteered to create […]
GPO and NOAA Partner to Increase Permanent Public Access to NOAA Publications
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|From a Joint Announcement: U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library is working to add more than 47,000 unique items published by NOAA authors and grantees to the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information. GPO shares NOAA’s goal of providing additional avenues to access […]
Journal Article: “Global Trends in Digital Preservation: Outsourcing Versus In-House Practices”
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|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 […]