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Searcher
Nov/Dec 2004
David Mattison |
Looking for Good Art Part 3: Glorious National Collections With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Here links to directories and guides.   |
Searcher
January 2003
David Mattison |
Counting Heads Around the World The Genealogy of international Census Databases, Part II: Canada |
Information Today
November 24, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Europeana.eu Launches--Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well, but Temporarily Speechless The European Union-funded collaboration provides free access to some 2 million digital objects from libraries, museums, archives, and audio-visual collections in 27 member European countries. |
D-Lib
December 2006
David Bearman |
Jean-Noel Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy Jean-Noel Jeanneney, President of the Bibliotheque nationale de France is pushing for a dramatic increase in international collaboration in the digitization of books by governments, to counter what he identifies as the risks posed by Google. |
Searcher
May 2002
David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here... |
Searcher
September 2004
Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013
Schopfel & Soukouya |
Providing Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study from Togo The self-archiving of scientific work in an open access repository, is often considered as the choice for developing countries because of lower investment and operational costs. We will provide a review of relevant literature on the topic. |
Information Today
October 27, 2008 |
Bibliotheque nationale de France to Add Records to WorldCat OCLC and Bibliotheque nationale de France have signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC's WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding information in libraries. |
Searcher
December 2000 |
The Future of the Past: History Sources on the Internet Historians and historical-fiction writers bring history to life through the skillful selection of details from daily life. For researchers of history, the number of Internet resources is increasing rapidly... |
Information Today
October 9, 2006
Susanne Bjorner |
Google Library Project Expands to Spain The Universidad Complutense Madrid has become the first library in continental Europe and in a non-English speaking country to join the 2-year-old Google Book Search program. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
D-Lib
March 2006
Gregory Crane |
What Do You Do with a Million Books? The ability to extract from the stored record of humanity useful information in an actionable format for any given human being of any culture at any time and in any place will not emerge quickly, but the fundamental tools on which such a system would be built are moving forward. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today
January 24, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services. |
Searcher
September 2000
Amy M. Kautzman |
Virtual Academy: Full Text in the Humanities and Social Sciences A discussion about the commercialization of full-text databases and how well they server the library and research community. Includes a list of free full-text humanities databases on the web. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2011
Gauthereau-Bryson et al. |
Digitization Practices for Translations: Lessons Learned from the Our Americas Archive Partnership Project This paper discusses the complexities involved in digitizing multilingual historical documents, including practices for creating "born-digital" translations and unique metadata to best describe these rare, primary documents. |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records... |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
D-Lib
May 2000 |
In Brief CNRI Announces New Version of the Handle System... Virtual Heritage is playing an important role in the interpretation and preservation of Cultural Heritage... Journal Abbreviation Sources... Asking the Experts: Digital Reference and the Virtual Reference Desk... etc. |
D-Lib
October 2000
John V. Lombardi |
Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems... |
D-Lib
December 2005
Bonita Wilson |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2008
Finlay et al. |
In Brief Pattern Language Network (PLANET) project explores the use of patterns and pattern languages in teaching... Increased Content, New Features Offered by Science.go... etc. |
Information Today
March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc. |
D-Lib
March 2006
Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Directory of Open Access Journals Relaunched with New Features... Scholars Portal Certified as a Trustworthy Digital Repository... A Week In the Trenches at SXSW 2013... etc. |
D-Lib
December 2001 |
Clips & Pointers The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections... Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits... Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment... Resources for Professional Education & Grant Writing... etc. |
D-Lib
March 2001 |
In Brief Award to Penn State University Libraries to support an extensive study of digital image delivery... Digitization of Printed Material: The METAe Project... The Special Collections Virtual Reading Room... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Ariel Bleicher |
A Memory of Webs Past The Web is a rollicking, revealing record of life in the 21st century. But preserving it for future historians is a monumental technical challenge |
D-Lib
March 2003
Ian H. Witten |
Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone The Greenstone Digital Library Software provides a way of building and distributing digital library collections, opening up new possibilities for organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on CD-ROM. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013 |
In Brief and In the News The Value and Impact of the British Atmospheric Data Center... Reports on the 8th International Digital Curation Conference... NISO Publishes Maintenance Revisions of Dublin Core and SUSHI Standards... |
D-Lib
October 2000 |
In Brief The Digital Performance Archive... Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives... SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries... Librarians agonize over which journals to cancel when library budgets can't keep up... etc. |
Information Today
October 22, 2009 |
PASCAL and FRANCIS Now Available via EBSCOhost PASCAL is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering science, technology, and medicine. FRANCIS is a multidisciplinary database providing humanities and social sciences coverage. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010 |
In Brief and In the News HumBox... CACAO project overview... Digital Classicist Summer Seminar Series 2010... The Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership... Frontiers of science: Science fact in a comic strip... etc. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2011 |
In Brief and In the News RAPTOR: Understanding your users' use of e-resources... Science.gov Sports a New Image Search... Anianet and Springer Announce Cooperation to Promote Scholarly Collaboration... |
ONLINE
November 2000
Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Searcher
April 2006
Carol Ebbinghouse |
The People's Law: Free Legal Help and Legal Research on the Web Many sites and organizations have demonstrated a high level of commitment to providing quality legal services and information for the lay person in English as well as other languages. |
Information Today
September 2003 |
Product News and Reviews MicroPatent Streamlines Searching, Extends IP Alerts... Reuters Unveils Research On-Demand... ProQuest Offers JHUP Journals... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2010 |
In Brief Access to Learning Award... A data management infrastructure for research activities in the life sciences... Examining techniques and implementations for automated metadata extraction... etc. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Carol Matlack |
Liberte, Egalite...and Blogging What are so many French writing about? Find out on our tour of some of the country's key blogs friendly for English speakers. |
Search Engine Watch
July 28, 2010
Christian Arno |
Localizing Websites: Why it Pays to Target Countries and Not Languages For your foreign language sites to be effective, they absolutely have to be localized for individual countries. Here's why. |
D-Lib
December 2007 |
In Brief Dioscuri: Emulator for Digital Preservation... Designed for Digital Preservation... Information Reuse... etc. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Korn et al. |
In Brief and In the News Linked data in the humanities... Low-cost digitization of cultural heritage materials... New tool to increase use of in-copyright works... |
Searcher
October 2003
Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009 |
In Brief Reflective learning for the net generation... The SKUA project: prototyping a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services... The Erewhon project: more comprehensive location-based services... etc. |
D-Lib
March 2003 |
Clips and Pointers Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program... Report Examines Copyright Issues in Digital Archiving, Council on Library and Information Resources... Surveying the Digital Future: Year Three... etc. |
