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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
August 29, 2013 |
Researchers Granted Access to Digitized Malay Manuscripts The British Library recently signed an agreement with the National Library Board Singapore so researchers can access the BL's Malay manuscript collection for free online. |
Information Today
February 25, 2010
Barbara Quint |
19th-Century Books From The British Library on Kindle for Free Last year, Microsoft completed its digitization obligations to The British Library and handed over 25 million pages in 65,000 19th-century books. |
Information Today
September 18, 2014 |
The DPLA Adds Medical and Governmental Sources The Digital Public Library of America announced partnerships with the Medical Heritage Library and the U.S. Government Printing Office. |
Information Today
July 14, 2011 |
Alexander Street Press Adds EMI recordings to Classical Music Library Alexander Street Press announced the addition of nearly 22,500 recordings from EMI and EMI sub-labels Virgin Classics and Angel Records to its streaming music collection for libraries and educational institutions, Classical Music Library. |
Information Today
November 17, 2015 |
The British Library Plans to Digitize Indian Texts The British Library announced Two Centuries of Indian Print, a pilot project for the major digitization program of its Indian books dating from 1714 to 1914. |
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
November 2007
Jim Ashling |
Progress Report: The British Library and Microsoft Digitization Partnership Microsoft and The British Library (BL) plan to digitize 100,000 out of copyright titles and make them accessible via Microsoft's Live Search Books site. |
D-Lib
November 2000
Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2004
Neil Beagrie |
The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Ultimately, digital preservation will be successful when it can be seen not as a stand alone institutional activity but as an activity embedded in how institutions manage and approach digital information and resources on an ongoing basis. |
Information Today
August 5, 2014 |
Wellcome Library and Jisc Will Digitize Historic Medical Books The Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Trust, and Jisc partnered with nine institutions, including six universities, for a 2-year digitization project encompassing 19th-century medical books and pamphlets. |
Information Today
March 13, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Adds Pay-Per-View Delivery from The British Library Google Scholar continues to enhance its ability to not only find scholarly content but also to fetch it. |
Information Today
October 2, 2006
Robin Peek |
The British Library Releases Intellectual Property Manifesto The British Library released a document called "Intellectual Property: A Balance - The British Library Manifesto," which tackles increasingly unforgiving intellectual property laws. |
Information Today
August 13, 2013 |
The British Library and the Qatar National Library Digitize Collections The project will convert maps, photographs, manuscripts, and letters into freely available digital formats in English and Arabic to trace the history of Great Britain's involvement in the Middle East. |
D-Lib
December 2008
Arlitsch, Neatrour & Rice |
D-Lib Featured Collection November/December 2008: Western Soundscape Archive The Western Soundscape Archive (WSA) is a searchable online collection of natural sounds with a unique focus on terrestrial vertebrates from the western United States, including amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. |
Information Today
March 8, 2010 |
Alexander Street Press Jazzes Up Its Collections In 2011, Alexander Street's plan is for Music Online to hit the milestone of 1 million recordings. The company also promises no price increases. |
Information Today
September 19, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library to Change Licensing for Noncommercial, Non-U.K. Document Delivery The new service stems from a new framework license agreement supported by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and the Publishers Association. |
Information Today
June 2, 2015 |
Adam Matthew Rereleases Victorian Archive Adam Matthew relaunched its Victorian Popular Culture portal, which offers access to rare and unique primary sources related to popular entertainment in the U.S., the U.K., and Europe from 1779 to 1930. |
Information Today
June 5, 2008
Barbara Quint |
`It Ain't Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown Although the announcement of Microsoft's decision to shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects seemed to indicate that the program would cease digitizing immediately, conversations with participating libraries indicated otherwise. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2010 |
In Brief NISO 2010 webinar series provides updates on technology and standards for libraries and scholarly communication... Web archives registry launched... Digital preservation training program scholarships offered again this year... etc. |
D-Lib
December 2006
Cindy Boeke |
IPRES 2006 Conference Report: Digital Preservation Takes Off in the E-Environment Giving the need for long-term digital storage is the attention it deserves. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2015 |
In Brief and In the News President Obama Announces Open eBooks and ConnectED Library Challenge... IMLS announces public request for comment and webinar on broadband barriers... Julie Todaro Wins 2016-2017 ALA Presidency... |
