MORE 'PRESERVATION' POSTS
Society of American Archivists (SAA) Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Pilot Program for Indigenizing Archival Practices
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|From a SAA Announcement: The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Foundation has received a $98,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to develop a yearlong pilot program that centers Indigenous needs and perspectives in the archives profession. The new program is aimed at Tribal archivists, Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, museum professionals, and leaders and focuses on […]
From a Letter by Ithaka President Kevin Guthrie: I recently shared the 2023 priorities ITHAKA has set to help provide the infrastructure the academic community needs to support research, teaching, and learning in an increasingly digital world. One of our most important aims is to provide universal access to as much content as possible. We are pursuing this […]
Funding: HathiTrust Receives 5-Year, $1 Million Grant From Mellon Foundation
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Reports
|Here’s the Full Text of HathiTrust Announcement: HathiTrust, a member-based organization hosted by the University of Michigan, has received a 5-year, $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to fund a multi-year effort to strengthen its preservation and access mission. The funding will initially finance three new positions to develop an integrated program of assessment, […]
Ithaka S+R Releases “A*CENSUS II: Archives Administrators Survey” Findings
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|From an Ithaka S+R Blog Post by the Report’s Author, Makala Skinner: On Tuesday, January 31, we published the A*CENSUS II Archives Administrators Survey findings. The Archives Administrator Survey Report is the second report in the A*CENSUS II series, the first being the All Archivists Survey Report published in August 20. [Clip] Seven hundred and forty-six archives […]
From the Government Publishing Office (GPO): Libraries at the University of Montana, the University of Memphis, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have signed Memorandum of Agreements with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) to become Preservation Stewards, and three other libraries are adding materials to their current Preservation Steward collections. To help libraries meet […]
Virginia Tech: University Libraries Dean Tyler Walters Appointed Board Chair of Academic Preservation Trust; IEEE Computer Society 2023 Technology Predictions Released; and More News Headlines
Data Files, Jobs, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|As Book Bans Increase Across the Country, a Boston University Scholar is Fighting Back Core’s Library Resources & Technical Services Journal Goes Fully Open Access Digital Image Processing: It’s All About the Numbers (via Library of Congress) GPO’s GitHub Collection of Catalog of US Government Publications (CGP) Records: January 6 House Committee OverDrive Announces Launch […]
Jennifer Vinopal Named HathiTrust’s First Associate Director
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s HathiTrust Announcement: HathiTrust is pleased to announce that Jennifer Vinopal has been appointed HathiTrust’s first Associate Director. Vinopal will assume a key leadership role at a pivotal moment in HathiTrust’s 15th year with responsibility for day-to-day activities and integrated development of HathiTrust’s programs and services. Reporting to Executive Director, Mike Furlough, […]
Scholarly Publishing: JSTOR and University Press Partners Announce Path to Open Books Pilot Project
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing
|From a JSTOR Announcement: JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced today Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute […]
Research Tool: “Introducing Jot — A New Open-Source Tool That Help Researchers With Journal Selection”
Dashboards, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|From the Yale School of Public Health: Say hello to Jot: a free, open-source web application that matches manuscripts in the fields of biomedicine and life sciences with suitable journals, based on a manuscript’s title, abstract, and (optionally) citations. Developed by the Townsend Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, Jot gathers a wealth of data on […]
Mellon Foundation Awards GBH $16 Million Grant to Support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|Note: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress Here’s the Full Text of the Announcement: The Mellon Foundation has awarded GBH $16 million to support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a GBH collaboration with the Library of Congress, to digitize, preserve and make accessible historically […]