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Digitization: Montreal's Jewish Public Library Yiddish Audio Collection to Go Digital
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Lecture, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources
|From The Canadian Jewish News Thousands of hours of Yiddish audio books and literary programming taped at the Jewish Public Library (JPL) from at least the early 1950s are about to enter the digital age. [Clip] The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass., has embarked on a two-year project to remaster and digitize these cassettes […]
From Matt McGee at Search Engine Land: When Flickr Product Chief Markus Spiering wrote a couple weeks ago about things that were being discarded as part of a “New Year’s cleaning,” there was no mention it would include the site’s core customer service team. But at least some, if not all of that team, was […]
Texas Tech University Begins Digitizing Collection of Vietnam Refugee Documents
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Funding, News
|From The Daily Toreadoer The Texas Tech Vietnam Center and Archive received a grant to begin the three-year long process of digitizing their collection of documents of war refugees in Vietnam during World War II. They received the grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, said Mary Saffell, assistant director of the Vietnam […]
From a News Release: Washington University Libraries has joined HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries to preserve and provide access to the published record in a digital form, announced Shirley K. Baker, Washington University’s vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries. WUSTL, which joined HathiTrust Jan. 1, 2012, now […]
From the Irish Times: For 135 years saving paper has been its focus. But with so much of the world’s written content and images increasingly in digital form, the National Library of Ireland has embarked on a major project to digitise its collections and give equal weight to archiving new material that comes in bits […]
Smithsonian Gets Dedicated Funds for Digitization and New Media, Will Spend $8.7 Million In FY 2012
Digital Preservation, Funding, Interviews, Management and Leadership, News, Profiles
|From Federal Computer Week: The Smithsonian Institution expects to spend $8.7 million to engage in digitization, social media, mobile and Web efforts in fiscal 2012, according to an agency official. That represents roughly a $500,000 increase to be spent on those efforts this fiscal year, in comparison to fiscal 2011, Linda St. Thomas, a Smithsonian […]
From iTWire: The project is a collaboration between Coventry University, BT Heritage and The National Archive and aims to catalogue, digitise and develop a searchable online archive of almost half a million photographs, images, documents and correspondence. It is being funded with a grant from JISC (formerly the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee). [Clip] The […]
Malaysia: National Archives Digitising Historical Materials
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From BERNAMA: The National Archives is in the process of digitising all historical records and materials to make it easier for the public to obtain information, National Archives deputy director-general (research and development) Daresah Ismail said. The digitisation process, carried out under the National Key Economic Area (NKEA), would also endear the public to an […]
Atlanta History Center Awarded National Archives Grant to Digitize Civil War Documents
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News
|From the Atlanta Business Journal: The Atlanta History Center will receive a $74,831 National Archives grant to digitize more than 80,000 documents related to the Civil War, according to the organizations. The History Center and its partners, including the Digital Library of Georgia, Hargrett Library at the University of Georgia, and the Georgia Historical Society, […]
Roundup: A Digitization Milestone at U. of North Carolina and Four Recently Launched Digital Collections
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources, Roundup
|1812 Almanac is Milestone Book for UNC Digitization Program Mexico Launches “Mexican Digital Library” Including Twenty Important Codices (via ArtDaily) New Historic Pepperdine Films Digital Collection (Pepperdine University) Historical Charlotte Redevelopment (U. of North Carolina-Charlotte) Early Years of the Houston Negro Hospital (U. of Houston)