MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
HathiTrust: Audio/Video/Slides From Two Recent Presentations By Members of the HathiTrust Team Now Online
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries
|Presentation No. 1: Lunch and Learn: John Wilkin, Jon Stroop, and Marvin Bielawski on HathiTrust (Princeton U.) Title: “What is HathiTrust and How Can it Make a Difference? Direct to Slides ||| Direct to Audio From a Summary Article: John Wilkin at the University of Michigan, and Jon Stroop & Marvin Bielawski at […]
Digital Preservation: A New EU Funded Project to Preserve Weblogs
Digital Preservation, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From a News Release: An EU funded consortium has invited blog provider mokonoto assist in developing a digital preservation technology to preserve content published via blogs. [Clip] The EU project BlogForever aims to provide preservation technology in order to enable institutions and citizens to preserve content for future generations. BlogForever is a collaborative EU funded […]
New: Video of ARL Archived Webcast: "New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation for Preservation"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Preservation, Video Recordings
|The webcast took place on April 7, 2011 and runs about one hour. The program was a “complement” to “Digital Curation for Preservation” report that ARL published in mid-March. From an ARL Announcement About the Report and Webcast: The webcast will feature [the authors of New Roles for New Times along with] a reactor panel […]
Canada: A New Digital Collection: IslandArchives.ca From U. of Prince Edward Island
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Resources
|This resource was officially launched on April 18, 2011. Direct to the IslandArchives.ca From the About Page: The Island Archives Centre will protect and offer access to all of PEI’s contributions to our local and national heritage via a digital context infinitely more useful than that provided by traditional tools. Contributions to the “official word” […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a new column by the Director of the Harvard University Library, Dr. Robert Darnton. Dr. Darnton has chosen five frequently heard comments and then explains why they’re myths. Excellent selections that we also hear quite often. 1. “The book is dead.” 2. “We have entered the information age.” […]
New Report: "Preservation of Digitized Books and Other Digital Content Held by Cultural Heritage Organizations"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Preservation
|Preservation of Digitized Books and Other Digital Content Held by Cultural Heritage Organizations (72 pages; PDF) A report for the NEH and IMLS resulting from a grant from the “Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership” given to Portico and Cornell University Library Over the past decade there has been tremendous growth in the number of […]
Issue #13 of The Code4Lib Journal Now Online
Academic Libraries, Awards, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|Several articles in this issue focus on library use of mobile technologies. Direct to the Complete Table of Contents Here are direct links to four articles. Three dealing with mobile and the fourth about archiving web material using the the Memento protocol. Memento is an award winning “technical framework” that can help make finding and […]
Pass It On: Preservation Week 2011 Begins in Less Than One Month
Associations and Organizations, Government Libraries, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Pass It On: Preservation Week April 24–30, 2011 Some 630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions have no paid staff assigned responsibility for collections care; 22 percent have no collections care personnel at all. Some 2.6 billion items are not protected by an emergency plan. As […]
Videos from the Library of Congress: Archiving Digital Audio and Photos
Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Resources, Video Recordings
|Direct to Web Page and Video (via YouTube) On May 10, 2010, the Library of Congress held Personal Archiving Day in conjunction with the American Library Association’s annual Preservation Week. The Library invited members of the public to visit and learn about how to preserve their personal information in both digital and non-digital form. Library […]
New Report from ARL: "Digital Curation for Preservation"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Preservation
|From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Digital Curation for Preservation,” the first report in its new series, New Roles for New Times. Authored by Tyler Walters and Katherine Skinner, the report looks at how libraries are developing new roles and services in the arena of digital curation for preservation. […]