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Mellon Foundation Awards GBH $16 Million Grant to Support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
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|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 […]
Project LEND: Expanding Access to Digitized Books is Subject of University of California Research, Mellon Foundation Providing $1.1 Million in Support
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|From UC Davis: The University of California libraries — which comprise the largest university research library in the world — are launching a landmark research project to investigate the potential for expanded lawful use of digitized books held by academic and research libraries. The Mellon Foundation is providing $1.1 million support for Project LEND (Library Expansion of Networked Delivery), a two-year project that the UC Davis Library will lead on […]
Brent Reidy Named The New York Public Library’s Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries
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|From NYPL: The New York Public Library (NYPL) is pleased to announce that it has named Brent Reidy its Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries. Reidy served as the Library’s interim director since April of this year, following the retirement of William Kelly, the former Mellon Director. Reidy’s tenure will begin immediately. Reidy […]
A New Issue (41.4) of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is Now Available Online
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|Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) (Vol 41 No 4) was published on December 19, 2022. In This Issue EDITORIALS Letter from the Editorsby Kenneth J. Varnum, Marisha C. KellyPDF ARTICLES Digitization of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Russiaby Heesop Kim, Nadezhda MaltcevaPDF Tech Tools in Pandemic-Transformed Information Literacy Instruction: Pushing for Digital Accessibilityby Amanda Rybin […]
SAGE Publishing and Council of Australian University Libraries (CAUL) Announce New “Read and Publish” Agreement & More News Headlines
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|Biden Harris Administration Announces Bold Multi-Sector Actions to Eliminate Systemic Barriers in STEMM De Gruyter eBound Funds the Digitization of Syriac Studies Book and Manuscript Collection SAGE Publishing and Council of Australian University Libraries (CAUL) Reach New “Read and Publish” Agreement The “Free PACER” Bill Has a New CBO Score. The Bill Actually Reduces the […]
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries Acquires Archives of The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Academy of Music
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|From Penn Libraries: Two iconic Philadelphia institutions are teaming up to provide public access to an extraordinary historical collection. The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has acquired the archives of The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Academy of Music in an agreement that will facilitate research and access to more than a century of Philadelphia’s rich musical history. “These archives […]
Virginia Tech University: “University Libraries’ Carbon Footprint Research Leads to International Best Paper Prize”
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|From Virginia Tech University: The Best Paper Prize was awarded to Alex Kinnaman and Alan Munshower of University Libraries at iPRES 2022, the 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation in Glasgow, Scotland. The jury members selected Kinnaman and Munshower’s paper, “Green Goes with Anything: Decreasing Environmental Impact of Digital Libraries at Virginia Tech,” in part because the “topic of this […]
Now Available Online: University of British Columbia (UBC) Library Digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio
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|From the University of British Columbia(UBC) Library: UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections. The process to digitize the First Folio took more than a year to facilitate due to the Folio’s age and […]
“Over 240,000 Historic Arkansas Newspaper Pages Digitized for Chronicling America Project”
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|From the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Employees of the State Archives have digitized over 240,000 pages of historic newspapers for the Chronicling America project. So far, select years of 74 Arkansas newspaper titles have been digitized, along with the newspaper of a “free love colony” that moved from Missouri to Arkansas in 1918 and published […]
Now Available Online: National Archives at Riverside Collaborates with California Universities to Digitize Chinese Heritage Records
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|From a NARA News Report More than 2,200 Chinese Exclusion Act case files held by the National Archives at Riverside are now available online in the National Archives Catalog, thanks to a collaboration with the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California . The project began in 2018 after a fortuitous meeting at a local American Archives Month event. Shortly […]