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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
From an Announcement: ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) announced today that it is providing its institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to preserve their valuable electronic resources. These services, provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, address the scholarly community’s critical need for long-term solutions that assure reliable, secure, deliverable...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Brewster Kahle has many titles. These days he’s best known as founder of the Internet Archive (home of The Wayback Machine) and founding member of the Open Content Alliance. From the Article: “We have to have universal access to everything, just like a library,” he says. “Do we want that under a single corporation’s control? It [...]
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Information Today (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), an on-demand digital library for technology, digital media, and business professionals, announced the launch of Safari Books Online 6.0. This new product release features new functionality such as an interactive reading experience, dynamic content categorization, community and collaboration features, and enhanced search functionality.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Every now and then a fee-based product comes around that we believe deserves your attention. The following is one of them. Chris Pendleton on the Bing Blog reminds us that a major digitization project, every issue ever published of National Geographic from 1887-2008, is now available (it was officially released yesterday according to this media [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Our friends at TeleRead.org let us know about a new digitization manual from Cornell University Library. From the Announcement: “Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” a new book published today by Cornell University Library, can help professionals at these institutions answer that question. Based on a well-received Australian...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
In August, we first posted about the Internet Archive (IA) asking GeoCities users to make sure their content was archived by the IA. Why? As of yesterday, GeoCities is no longer online. From the Article: Yahoo, which acquired the site for $3.57bn (£2.17bn) in 1999 at the height of the dotcom boom, said sites would no [...]
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Internet Archaeology project is a wonderful collaboration between artists, designers, and tech-minded people around the world, started by an artist named Ryder Ripps in New York. "Essentially we're going through older, overlooked websites and archiving content," says participant Stefan Moore, "But the main difference between this and archive.org is that here, there's a focus on showcasing...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Barbara Quint Writes: With all the controversy still swirling around Google Books and its post-settlement offerings, an alternative route to the millions of digitized books and journals supplied by leading Google Book Search library partners has arrived. The HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org) is a collaboration of 25 research libraries already participating in Google Book Search to produce a [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
David Rothman, the founder of one of our favorite blogs, Teleread.org, had a guest column published in The Huffington Post on Thursday. In it Rothman calls for a National Digital Library System. He writes: Today millions of children are still growing up in bookless homes. But suppose a well-stocked national digital library system existed for [...]
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Information Today (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
With all the controversy still swirling around Google Books and its post-settlement offerings, an alternative route to the millions of digitized books and journals supplied by leading Google Book Search library partners has arrived. The HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org) is a collaboration of 25 research libraries already participating in Google Book Search to produce a shared digital repository for preservation...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
This Friday (in the U.S.) a new movie opens about the life of aviator, Amelia Earhart. At Purdue University, the George Palmer Putnam Collection is the world’s largest collection of Amelia Earhart papers, photos, memorabilia and artifacts. Several resources from the collection are available online. 1) Searchable Digital Library (Images, cards, ephemera, newspaper articles, etc.), over [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Yesterday, we posted about a massive digitization project recently announced at NYU and an editorial from the Princeton University newspaper focusing on Google digitization and the HathiTrust. Today, we move to Providence, RI and Brown University. From the Article: The Center for Digital Initiatives is preparing to launch the Brown Digital Repository, an online database to allow [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
From the Article: With the financial backing of Abu Dhabi, NYU is planning to digitize Bobst Library. This will be perhaps NYU Abu Dhabi’s most visible change for the university’s Washington Square campus. A digital database of all the holdings in Bobst would serve to connect Abu Dhabi and New York’s research materials. [Snip] “We do plan on the [...]
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
CNN :The European Union has launched a digital library that offers documents dating to nearly 60 years ago, in 23 languages. All documents ever edited on behalf of European Union institutions, agencies and other bodies will be available in the library, the organization said in a news release. "The digital library frees the memory of the European Union tied to paper since its beginning,"...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.
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patrickguillard | 11/20/2008
From now on, more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the EU's 27 Member States are available online
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Peter Brooke | 11/10/2008
In recent months, Google has been working diligently to digitize the print world. Google has scanned millions of works and successfully digitized them for its new Book Search program, allowing for the contents of the books to be searchable and available on the internet. Like many of Google’s recent business ventures, the Book Search Program has not gone without some controversy. There have been arguments...
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thecollective | 10/24/2008
The European Union is in the process of creating an immense digital backup of European civilization in the form of an online encyclopedia called Europeana. The project aims to digitize the continent's national libraries, museums and archives and will include books, photos, maps, paintings and films - all accessible worldwide without subscription.
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