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GPO and OMB Issue Guidance for Congressionally Mandated Reports; ITHAKA Announces a New Set of Services for Academic, Research, and Cultural Institutions to Share, Preserve, and Manage Digital Collections; & More News Headlines
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|Europe Commission Invites Member States to Contribute to a Collection of 3D-Digitised Cultural Heritage Assets (via European Commission) Government Documents GPO and OMB Issue Guidance for Congressionally Mandated Reports (via GPO) OER VIVA, Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium, Partners with KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. to Develop Open Educational Resources Public Libraries California: Huntington Beach Moves Ahead with […]
Coherent Digital Announces Acquisition of Accessible Archives
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|From a Joint Announcement: Coherent Digital LLC, the publisher of History Commons, today announced its acquisition of Accessible Archives Inc. The acquisition will add twenty-four new collections to Coherent Digital’s history portfolio. Coherent Digital LLC has retained Unlimited Priorities LLC. Unlimited Priorities LLC will continue to manage all Accessible Archives processes until a successful migration […]
New Report: “Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project ”
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|The report and additional materials linked below were recently published online by OCLC Research. Title Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project Authors Chela Scott Weber Senior Program Officer Itza A. Carbajal Associate Researcher Lesley A. Langa Associate Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway Executive Director, Research Brooke Doyle Senior Project Coordinator […]
Digital Collections: Library of Congress Completes Digitization of Yongle Encyclopedia, Largest Reference Work of Pre-Modern Era
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|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 […]
New Online: Library of Congress Adds 39 Early Volumes to Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book Digital Collection
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|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 […]
Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) Viral Books Unbanned Initiative Celebrates New Milestone During National Library Week; Teens In All 50 States Checked Out 100,000 Books from Brooklyn Public Library’s Digital Collection Over Last Year
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|Here’s the Full Text of a Brooklyn Public Library Announcement: Celebrating National Library Week, Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) announced a new milestone today in the fight against censorship and book banning: more than 6000 young people, ages 13 to 21, have applied for a free BPL library card over the last year, providing them access […]
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Announces $35.63 Million for 258 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $35.63 million in grants for 258 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a documentary on the life and legacy of African American intellectual W.E.B. DuBois; enable the digitization of the personal papers of former members […]
New Article: “An Initial Scholarly AI Taxonomy”
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|The article linked to below was published today by Upstream, a Force11 publication. It was written by Adam Hyde (Coko Foundation), John Chodhacki (University of California Curation Center (UC3) at California Digital Library), and Paul Shannon. DOI: 10.54900/6p6re-xyj61 From the Article: Although advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have been unfolding for over decades, the progress […]
Journal Article: “Digital Information Security Management Policy in Academic Libraries: A Systematic Review (2010–2022)”
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|The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Information Science. Title Digital Information Security Management Policy in Academic Libraries: A Systematic Review (2010–2022) Authors Ghulam Farid Library, Shalamar Medical & Dental College, Pakistan; Institute of Information Management, Pakistan Nosheen Fatima Warraich Library, Shalamar Medical & Dental College, Pakistan; Institute of Information Management, […]
Digital Collections: Library of Congress Adds MLB History Online: Early Baseball Publications
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|From the Library of Congress: To celebrate the start of the 2023 season, the Library is pleased to announce a new digital collection: Early Baseball Publications. The collection, which will grow over time, provides full-text digitized access to more than 120 early baseball publications. The initial release includes a large selection of 19th- and early 20th-century annual […]