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Information Today February 7, 2008 |
Columbia University Collaborates With Microsoft on Digitization Project Columbia University and Microsoft are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and to make them available to internet users. |
Information Today April 8, 2014 |
Associations Team Up for Research-Tracking Service The Association of Research Libraries received a joint $1 million grant from IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which will help ARL develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem. |
Information Today June 30, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing announced that it has partnered with the American Theological Library Association to create digital archive collections of historical monographs and serials for purchase by libraries and other institutions. |
InternetNews October 27, 2005 |
Open Content Alliance: The World's Books For All International group of research libraries bands together to provide open online access to the world's books. |
Information Today April 2, 2015 |
Internet Archive and DPLA Form Partnership The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America joined forces for a joint program that will enhance collection sharing from the Internet Archive in the DPLA. |
Information Today August 24, 2009 |
ProQuest Adds New Content to Periodicals Archive Online ProQuest, LLC announced that Periodicals Archive Online offers three more ways to build a library's research archive with the addition of The Spectator to Collection 7, the launch of Collection 8, and the development of 5 additional years of coverage for journals in Collections 1-5. |
Information Today April 16, 2012 |
World War I Film Footage in Cyberspace The European Film Gateway 1914 plans to digitize up to 650 hours of footage and make it freely accessible via europeana.eu, Europe's digital library, museum and archive. |
Information Today December 1, 2015 |
DPLA Helps Make Audiovisual Collections Searchable The Digital Public Library of America partnered with Pop Up Archive to offer discounts that help the DPLA hubs and their partners use Pop Up Archive to make their audiovisual collections searchable. |
Information Today July 7, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
Come to the World eBook Fair! This year, the theme of the fair is Own Your Own Library and it promises 1 million-plus books free for the taking. |
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines. |
Information Today August 20, 2013 |
American Indian Histories and Cultures Digital Archive Debuts The Newberry research library in Chicago and publisher Adam Matthew jointly created the American Indian Histories and Cultures digital archive, which launched recently as part of the ongoing partnership between the two institutions. |
Information Today November 2000 |
Libraries Receive Grants to Digitize Resources The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency that lends support to the nation's museums and libraries, has announced the recipients of its Library Preservation and Digitization Grants... |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson |
Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year. |
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
Information Today October 31, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Open Content Alliance Expands Rapidly; Reveals Operational Details Just a few weeks after its launch, the Open Content Alliance has already added dozens of new members to its Open Library project. |
D-Lib November 2005 Ed Galloway |
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections is part of the Historic Pittsburgh web site hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library (DRL). |
Information Today June 26, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA to Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing has partnered with American Theological Library Association to provide new collections of historical monographs and serials in digital format |
Information Today January 30, 2014 |
Getty Publications Offers Free Titles Getty Publications introduced its Virtual Library, which makes more than 250 of its backlist titles freely available for the public to read online or download as PDF files. |
Information Today May 24, 2010 |
World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitized and are being made publicly accessible as part of a partnership between Google, the University of California and the UC San Diego Libraries. |
Information Today May 21, 2015 |
The British Library Plans to Digitize Historic Sounds Collection The Heritage Lottery Fund endorsed the British Library with earmarked funding to help the library digitize its archive of 500,000 sound recordings and other collections from the U.K. and provide them online. |
Information Today July 7, 2008 |
Missouri Launches Collaborative Historical Search Portal Missouri has launched a free collaborative search portal that integrates millions of historical documents from the state's local libraries, universities, and cultural institutions in a single web gateway. |
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google. |
Information Today July 28, 2011 |
Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online. |
D-Lib February 2008 Betsy Kruger |
Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The largest publicly funded university library in the country has long been engaged in state, national, and international efforts to make its resources accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
Information Today November 12, 2012 |
NLM Launches Web Content Collecting Initiative The National Library of Medicine is selecting web content as part of its mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly biomedical literature, as well as other resources. |
InternetNews February 24, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Does History Google is working on a pilot program to digitize rare historic footage, and then post it on both Google Video and the National Archives Web site. |
Information Today June 17, 2013 |
Gale-Smithsonian Partnership's Magazine Archive Goes Live Earlier this year, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution to create library and academic resources by digitizing some of the Smithsonian's collections. |
Information Today May 28, 2015 |
Library of Congress Updates Website With New Interface and Web Archive Content This is the first big content release since June 2013, and it comes with a simplified interface and similarities to web archives at other institutions. |
Information Today October 3, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Google Print's ambitious effort to digitize the world's book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2014 |
In Brief and In the News IMLS Grant to Support Development of Library Digital Badging System... CLIR Names 2014 Mellon Dissertation Fellows... Getty Research Institute adds 77,000 images to Open Content... |
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... |
Information Today June 28, 2012 Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries. |
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
Information Today April 3, 2014 |
Gale Adds New Digital Collections Gale, part of Cengage Learning, launched the following Gale Digital Collection archives for academic and special libraries, now available on the Gale Artemis research platform. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Late Breaks - Endeavor Information Systems In association with Endeavor Information Systems, Sun Microsystems' technology is the incubator for a full-featured digital library solution, called ENCompass... |
Information Today February 5, 2015 |
Gale Increases Its Primary Sources Content Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced that several Gale Digital Collections for academic and special libraries are now available on the Gale Artemis: Primary Sources platform. |
D-Lib June 2005 Michalak, Madsen & Hurst |
The Open Collections Program Harvard resources that are digitized using the program are organized by topic, enabling interested people worldwide to easily access relevant information. |
Information Today October 12, 2008 |
CABI Health Archive Comes to EBSCOhost The database features research carried out over the course of several decades on topics including bioterrorism, disease control, patent protection, food security and malnutrition. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Higher education, library groups release Net Neutrality Principles... ALA applauds Congress for passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act... Finalists announced for the Digital Preservation Awards 2014... |
Information Today August 3, 2009 |
IMLS Preservation Grant Guidelines Available Bank of America is partnering with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to provide grants to small museums, libraries, and archives. |
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. |
Information Today November 18, 2014 |
The Getty Foundation Houses Free, Online Catalogs The OSCI (Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative) is composed of digital publications from eight institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Tate, and the Walker Art Center. |
Information Today October 8, 2012 |
ProQuest Expands Support for Research in Arts and Humanities Continuing its mission of making hard-to-find journals accessible to the world's researchers, ProQuest released the 10 th collection in its Periodicals Archive Online. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 |
In Brief and In the News UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries... Can culture on the web change peoples lives?... Europeana reaches 20 million items... |
Information Today November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. |
Information Today January 5, 2016 |
British Library Makes Digitization Progress on Historic Maps The British Library is a quarter of the way through its project to re-catalog, digitize, and conserve King George III's collection of 50,000 maps dating from around 1500 to 1824. |
Information Today December 1, 2015 John Charlton |
Digital Developments at the Wellcome Library The Wellcome Library, a medical-related archive (part of the Wellcome Trust charitable foundation), pays particular attention to the issues of data growth and obsolescence. |
Information Today November 3, 2011 |
Scientific American Archive Digitized From 1845 The archive, extending from Vol. 1, Issue 1, is available at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. The last segment of the digitized archive encompassed the inaugural issue in August 1845 through December 1909. |
D-Lib December 2007 Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |