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Slides, Notes, and Tweets From Day One of the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Reports, Resources
The 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference began on Thursday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. You can find the complete conference schedule here. + Tweets from the conference are using the hashtag #pda2011. + Session Notes by Diana Wakimoto (via The Waki Librarian) Hat Tips & Thanks: Bill Lefurgy and Scott Rosenberg More reports, […]
University of Missouri: "MU Libraries Emphasize Digital Archives"
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
From an Article Appearing in The Maneater (Student Paper at the University of Missouri): The library both digitizes collections it already has and purchases new material that originates online, such as online journals and databases. The process of digitization is funded partly through grants. Students and scholars have gravitated toward online resources because of their […]
From a San Francisco Chronicle Article by Jessica Kowng: More than a decade ago, the San Francisco Public Library undertook a monumental, multimillion-dollar effort to renovate or reconstruct nearly every branch library in the city. The plan was to bring two dozen branches up to building and disability-access standards within 10 years, as well as […]
From an ALA Announcement: American Library Association (ALA) President Roberta Stevens released the following statement today regarding President Obama’s 2012 budget request: “The president’s budget proposal strips funding away from one of our greatest resources for lifelong learning – our libraries. Libraries are fundamental to meeting the reading and information needs of communities nationwide. During this […]
"Scholars Favor Open-Access Journals, but Some Say Quality and Fees Are Concerns"
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A new survey of nearly 40,000 scholars across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences shows that almost 90 percent of them believe open-access journals are good for the research community and the individual researcher. But charges for publishing and the perception that open-access journals are of lower quality […]
