MORE 'DIGITIZED-ARCHIVES-LIBRARIES' POSTS
New and Upcoming Web Resources: The War of 1812 at Library and Archives Canada
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Maps, Resources
|From the LAC Web Site: The 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 is a unique opportunity for all Canadians to take pride in our traditions, and our shared history. The Government of Canada recognizes the War of 1812 as a defining moment in the history of our nation and has big plans to commemorate […]
HathiTrust Posts February 2012 Activities Update
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|The complete Feb. 2012 Activities Update is accessible here. Here are a Few Highlights: Changes to tab-delimited metadata files Staff at Michigan added 5 new fields to HathiTrust’s tab-delimited inventory files: publication date, publication location, language, bibliographic format, and an indication of whether or not a volume has been identified as a U.S. federal government […]
Direct to Guide From the Introduction: Primary sources sometimes trigger the curiosity that grows into a research project. The following collections and thematic groups of pictures, selected because they merit scholarly attention but have so far received relatively little, may offer such inspiration. Prints and Photographs Division staff members are happy to assist researchers to […]
From The Boston Globe: Boston’s French Cultural Center has expanded access to its electronic library to Francophiles nationwide making it the first French language e-Library in the country. The Marlborough Street center had previously allowed only New England residents to access their e-Library of 550 eBooks and eAudiobooks, but the center has removed the geographic […]
New York Public Library and FIT Archives Launch Digital Archive of Historic Fashion Drawings and Sketches
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
|From The NY Times: After two years of planning, the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library and the Special Collections & FIT Archives of the Fashion Institute of Technology Library have recently started a digital archive of fashion drawings and sketches by André Fashion Studios, The collection, André Studios 1930-1941: Fashion Drawings & […]
New Online Collection from U. of Chicago Library: Ethnographic and European Transportation Maps of the 19th Century
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From the University of Chicago Library News: Digitized copies of a small selection of the Library’s 19th-century ethnographic maps and 19th-century European transportation maps are now available online. These newly digitized maps form a portion of the roughly 400 maps that are available via the Library’s Map Collection web page. [Clip] Most of these maps […]
Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Two Partners & Makes Some Content Available on iTunesU
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Lecture, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Podcasts, Resources
|From the Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Two new members have joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Cornell University Library (Ithaca, N.Y.) and the U.S. Geological Survey Library (Reston, Va.). These two institutions will contribute to the digitization of historical science literature in the BHL collections. All material will be online, free and available to the public. Cornell […]
Interview: Martin Gomez (Formerly Director at LA Public) on "Creating the Public Library of the Future"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|Martin Gomez spoke at the U. of Toronto last week and also chatted with Michael Posner from The Globe and Mail about the Digital Public Library of America. From the Interview: For several years, Martin Gomez has been actively promoting the Digital Public Library of America – a campaign to digitize inventories of cultural and […]
Alumni from participating schools are given access to the same JSTOR collections that current students/faculty at the schools have. The pilot began in 2009 and 25 now has 25 members. The newest members are: Bowdoin College (See: Bowdoin Library Offers Alumni Access to Online Journal Collection) Durham University Macalester College School of Oriental and African […]
The Tumblr page will feature a steady stream of curated images (several each week) from The Times photo morgue on The Lively Morgue page. The Times has also scanned the reverse side of each image so you can read notations that were written by editors and others. Important info that is often lost when images […]