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InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet. |
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. |
D-Lib September 2000 Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We feature an extensive consideration of contextual metadata for cultural objects, visual interfaces for cultural heritage collections, the infrastructure needed to build upon and leverage open access and more. |
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis. |
Information Today February 24, 2011 Theresa Cramer |
New Study: Libraries Embrace Digital Content in Face of Budget Constraints At the very time that library budgets were being slashed, demand for the services provided by these institutions was increasing in the communities they served. Libraries have had to reprioritize and get creative with budgets. |
D-Lib April 2006 Lorcan Dempsey |
Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age Libraries collectively manage a long tail of research, learning and cultural materials. However, we need to do more work to make sure that this long tail is directly available to improve the work and lives of our users. |
Searcher October 2011 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do? |
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 January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections. |
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
Information Today February 7, 2013 Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access. |
Information Today February 21, 2006 Barbie E. Keiser |
Will Budget Constraints Sound a Death Knell for EPA Libraries? President Bush's American Competitive Initiative would cut $2 million that supports a network of 27 libraries. How will the work of the libraries' staffs change if these proposed budget cuts are approved? |
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
D-Lib October 2001 Sally Jo Cunningham |
Report on the 5th European Conference on Digital Libraries The ECDL 2001 call for papers emphasized "convergence": the drawing together of features from existing libraries, archives, and museums to create integrated digital resources... |
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 December 19, 2013 |
National Library to Digitize Norway's Books The entire digital collection is available for researchers working on-site at the National Library. The library estimates that it will spend 20-30 years digitizing all titles. |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
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 August 27, 2015 |
IFLA Statement Encourages Advocacy for Patron Privacy The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions released the "IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment." |
Information Today February 11, 2002 Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
Information Today August 29, 2011 |
University of California Libraries Expand Access to Orphan Works They will join the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, and University of Florida in a groundbreaking initiative to identify and make available digital versions of orphan works within the holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library. |
D-Lib December 2007 Estlund & Neatrour |
Utah Digital Repository Initiative: Building a Support System for Institutional Repositories As the deployment of IRs becomes mature, more libraries will take advantage of consortial or regional ties to provide support, training, and expertise in IR development. This support structure is essential for organizations that otherwise would not have the infrastructure to create an IR. |
D-Lib February 2001 Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one... |
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. |
Information Today November 28, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google. |
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. |
D-Lib May 2001 Ewald Brahms |
Digital Library Initiatives of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) is the central public funding organization for academic research in Germany. It is thus comparable to a research council or a national research foundation... |
Information Today February 12, 2007 Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? Much has transpired in the year since our last NewsBreak concerning the closure of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency libraries. |
D-Lib April 2006 Bonita Wilson |
Change and the Need for Innovation Numerous challenges face libraries and other information organizations in this time of rapid change in both technology and culture. |
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. |
Information Today August 15, 2011 |
ProQuest Uncovers More Treasures from European Rare Book Libraries Early European Books, ProQuest's program to digitize the archives of landmark European libraries, has taken another leap forward with its latest release. |
Information Today September 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |
D-Lib February 2000 Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: On eBooks, Open Archives, and Libraries |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The work of the Digital Library Federation's Assessment Interest Group... Fifteen years of interoperability efforts... Scenario-based learning in training library staff... |
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
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. |
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
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 March 2000 |
American Memory Historical Collection Most of the items within American Memory are primary source documents such as photographs, manuscripts and maps; items which often provide a first hand view of life in the United States. |
Information Today October 20, 2011 |
Pew Research Center Unveils New Initiative on Libraries in Digital Age The Pew Research Center announced plans to study how the role of public libraries is changing in the digital age and how library patrons' needs and expectations are shifting. |
Information Today September 10, 2009 Susanne Bjorner |
Europeana and Digitization: The Collaboration Is Only Beginning The recently released "Next Steps" planning communication from the European Commission (EC) gives Europeana just praise as a showcase for European cultural artifacts. |
D-Lib October 2002 Fox et al. |
Toward a Global Digital Library: Generalizing US-Korea Collaboration on Digital Libraries A report on recommendations to remove barriers to worldwide development of digital libraries, drawing upon an August 2000 workshop involving researchers from the US and Korea who met at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
D-Lib October 2001 Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
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 April 16, 2012 |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces The African American Historical Serials Collection Developed in conjunction with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), this digital collection includes African-American periodicals, annuals and reports published from 1829-1922, including materials from African-American religious organizations and social service agencies. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 Marydee Ojala |
Ownership, Access, Retrieval, and Sharing Today, it's about sharing. Collaboration tools are in vogue. Online discussion lists and blogs encourage the sharing of thoughts, opinions, expertise, and even links to journal articles. |
Information Today March 5, 2012 Victoria McCargar |
Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures Back in November 2011, the Library of Congress blogged about a new online service called Viewshare, a web domain where cultural heritage institutions can show off their digital treasures free of charge. |
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. |