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From the Article: China Digital Library for Visual Impairment (CDLVI) is an online library, mainly accessible via the Internet. In combination with specially designed screen readers, software that reads out loud what is shown on the screen, CDLVI is enabling people who are blind and visually impaired to use shortcut keys to navigate websites divided into [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
From the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Access the Digital Library The 1860 U.S. Census registered the names of slave owners and the age, gender and color of slaves. But there, as in much of the historical record, slaves are nameless. UNCG’s new Digital Library on American Slavery provides the names of more than 83,000 individual slaves [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
We’ve posted a lot recently by and about Robert Darnton. Info about his new book, audio interviews and several essays (including one from last week) about Google and digitization. Today, in the Harvard Gazette (a paper from the Harvard Public Affairs Office), Darnton speaks a bit more about books. The brief article is titled, [...]
LisNews (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The book as multi-tool: You can't snuggle up to an E-Reader "Once our books go digital, bad things could happen. Control of this vast digital library might fall into the wrong hands. And because the nature of the digital world is to miniaturize our communications -- e-mail and Twitter being prime examples -- we might gradually see books diminish to the vanishing point. "
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
From a Patent Baristas Post: India and United States have signed two inter-governmental agreements on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to help prevent what they say is the misappropriation of traditional knowledge through mistaken issuance of patents, what some call biopiracy. [Snip] The first agreement is the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) Access Agreement signed between the Council...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
From the Blog Post: The university announced Tuesday that it will use an automated system to digitize rare Middle Eastern texts from its own library and from that of Georgetown University. Library staffers will digitize hundreds of works over the next two years, and when the project is completed, they will examine the associated costs. They [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
From the Announcement: Safari Books Online, the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media, and business professionals, announced today that its online book content has increased by 145 percent over the past two years through increasing the number of books added each month from 70 to 172. With more than 10,000 books and 700+ videos [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
From the Article: …Marie-Henri Beyle, or Stendhal as he came to be known, has become the latest of France’s literary giants to be dragged into the 21st century courtesy of painstaking research and cutting-edge digital technology. A new website launched by the Stendhal University of Grenoble and the city’s public library aims to give the novelist a [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
From the Article: Digital book portal Fanshu.com is already the largest digital library in China with 500,00 scanned books and Founder plans to expand its coverage to 1.8 million books. It’s funny that Google ran into such fierce opposition when it was accused of scanning a mere 20,000 books earlier this summer but of course, unlike [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
From the Article: Members of the European Union want to create a joint project on the digitization of books, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said, challenging Google’s plan to create a massive digital library. EU ministers agreed in Brussels yesterday to create a committee of “wise men” to carve out a plan, Mitterrand said in an interview [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Although the site has been online since October, it’s now official, iEEEXplore has joined a growing number (see below) of publishers and aggregators providing mobile-friendly access to their databases with IEEE Xplore Mobile. From the Announcement: IEEE has launched its first mobile version of the IEEE Xplore digital library. You can now easily perform searches [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
From the Article: Europeana, the European Digital Library, is the aggregator of European cultural content. Interoperability is at the heart of what Europeana is doing: integrating format types across borders, across domains and between institutions. Museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual (AV) collections have different histories, user-groups and purposes. These are reflected in their diverse...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
From the Article: A searchable map detailing 40 years of Israeli archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developed for the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research. [Snip] Project leaders Lynn Swartz Dodd of USC and Rafi Greenberg of Tel Aviv University are expected to [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From the Announcement: Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a unique collection that will help people discover new details about Native American history. The Footnote Interactive Native American Collection features original historical documents including: + Ratified Indian Treaties – dating back to 1722 + Indian Census Rolls – featuring...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From the Announcement: A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections. The breakthrough allows for full-text searching capabilities across the entire library. Researchers can now search public domain and in-copyright [...]
The 3 latest articles published by users on Digital Libraries :
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
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...
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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