MORE 'DIGITIZATION' POSTS
Center for Research Libraries Expands Online Legal Collections
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
|From CRL: The partnership between CRL and the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) has entered its second year. This partnership yields several benefits for CRL libraries. LLMC is digitizing law-related collections from CRL, and identifying prospective content for digitization to serve CRL libraries’ research priorities. And the recent cataloging of CRL’s extensive collection of Foreign […]
From CNET: A new effort under way at the world’s largest museum and research institution could eventually mean more of its 137 million objects will be publicly available, even if just via 3D digital models. [Clip] CNET has learned that the Smithsonian has a new initiative to create a series of 3D-printed models, exhibits, and […]
Fashion Institute of Technology and NYPL to Unveil Online Fashion Information and Image Portal
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
|From a METRO* Announcement: An event and formal launched is scheduled to take place next week in NYC. Details here. Background This digitized collection of 5,415 fashion drawings and sketches produced by André Fashion Studios between 1930 and 1941 is the result of a partnership between the Picture Collection of The New York Public Library […]
U.Va. Library's New Streaming Oral History Project Tells the Legal Story of the Civil Rights Struggle
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, Preservation, Profiles
|From U. Va. Today: In March 1985, civil rights leader and former Howard University president James M. Nabrit did an extended interview for an oral history project led by then-University of Virginia English professor William Elwood. Cigar in hand, Nabrit – a former NAACP lawyer who worked with Thurgood Marshall and others to fight segregation […]
From LIBER: A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “European Newspapers” project and will, over the next 3 years, provide more than 10 million newspaper pages to the EUROPEANA service. The European Newspapers project (funded under EC’s CIP 2007 – 2013) aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers for The […]
Digital Library Building in Indonesia
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
|From the Jakarta Post: In a progressively digitalized world with ever-advancing systems of information management, the rows of bound volumes stacked on library shelves could soon make way for virtual three-dimensional books that could be used by multiple readers at once. The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is developing a digital library to host these […]
Montana: "New State Librarian Leads Digitization"
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Reports
|From the Helena Independent Record: Not that long ago, the Montana State Library, in charge of making state documents available to the public, circulated just a few hundred publications outside its walls each year. Now, in just the past three months, the library has circulated some 18,000 digital documents, and what’s available is vast: state […]
From the The Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) Scientists at the Illinois Natural History Survey in Champaign, part of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, are getting ready to digitize biological collections to make them more accessible to researchers and the public. They will be sharing $2.6 million out of $10 million in grants […]
Newspaper Digitization: Columbia University Libraries to Create Spectator Archive
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From CUL: The Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce a joint project with the Columbia Spectator Board and Staff to digitize, preserve, and make available online the entire run of the Columbia Spectator from 1877 to the present, creating what will be known as the Spectator Archive. This multiyear project will be conducted in […]
Direct to Video Slideshow (via YouTube) The European Library is the library domain aggregator for Europeana and, in this role, supports data providers from the library domain across Europe. The Europeana Library gathers bibliographic records and metadata to digital objects: this video features the workflow between libraries, The European Library and Europeana. The video runs […]