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Information Today
January 2, 2007 |
Internet Archive Receives Sloan Foundation Grant The Internet Archive's efforts to digitize content and make it freely accessible online have received a tremendous boost from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.   |
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. |
CIO
March 15, 2002
Ben Worthen |
Movie Re-Views Deep inside a mountain outside Pittsburgh, there's a climate-controlled vault that could be some superhero's secret fortress. It's actually the storage facility for the National Geographic film library, which includes more than 25,000 hours of footage that is now being digitized... |
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. |
Information Today
April 21, 2015 |
Adam Matthew Will Publish Communist Film Archive The majority of this collection of more than 750 hours of footage features previously unseen content. |
Chemistry World
March 29, 2012
Emma Shiells |
Moldy film (block)buster Not only is the mold destroying historical footage, it's also posing a serious inhalation hazard to archivists that process and inspect the films. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Jena McGregor |
A Foreign Affair Global markets used to be an afterthought in Hollywood, but not anymore. |
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... |
Science News
October 1, 2005 |
Science Cinema The Museum of the Moving Image has launched a Web site that features short films, interviews, and articles devoted to science and technology in movies. |
Information Today
August 16, 2012 |
Alexander Street Press Expands Its Film Collections Alexander Street Press expanded its visual arts offerings with the release of two streaming video collections, Silent Film Online and New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
The Dirty Harry Collection--Warner Bros. (Blu-ray) The A/V presentations are everything you'd want from a series like this, and the extras package gives a great insight into the production and legacy of the series. A "must own" for fans. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011 |
Institute Launches Documentary Film Unit At a meeting in February that brought together scientists, educators, and entertainment industry professionals, HHMI announced the launch of a $60 million documentary film initiative that aims to bring engaging science features to television. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012 |
Short Films Make Evolutionary Biology Memorable "Film is a powerful way to tell stories," says HHMI Vice President for Science Education Sean B. Carroll. "You can hear scientists talking in their own words and see the places where they do their own work." |
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. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Sonia Zjawinski |
Streaming Hard-to-Find Films for Cinephiles TheAuteurs.com delivers video-on-demand specifically for film buffs. |
Information Today
November 29, 2010 |
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. |
Chemistry World
December 2011
Emma Davies |
Re-Record, Not Fade Away A look at the blockbuster tale of film preservation. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Is Lions Gate a Flop? Lions Gate shares continue to languish, giving savvy investors a number of ways to make a buck. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2009
Eric Bleeker |
Will "Avatar" Change Filmmaking? Will this expensive 3-D extravaganza change the film industry? |
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
April 5, 2010 |
Free Access in April to American History in Video The collection, which was named both a 2009 Booklist Editor's Choice selection and a 2009 Library Journal Best Reference, gives patrons at subscribing libraries access to a current total of more than 4,000 complete newsreels and documentaries from leading video providers |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Rosenfeld to Lead HHMI Documentary Initiative HHMI's $60 million documentary film initiative, announced in February, aims to bring high-quality, compelling science features to television. The initiative will extend the Institute's science education outreach to a global TV viewership. |
Salon.com
October 31, 2002
Damien Cave |
Reel world domination If young film buffs choose Tarantino over Antonioni, are they culturally illiterate? Some of their elders, self-appointed guardians of the cinematic canon, think so. |
Salon.com
March 28, 2002
Nick Poppy |
Frederick Wiseman The grandfather of cinema verite talks about domestic violence, "Domestic Violence" and the reality behind reality film... |
Information Today
August 6, 2007
Barbara Quint |
National Archives Partners With CreateSpace and Amazon to Digitize Movies The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the federal government's official archivist, has entered into an agreement with CreateSpace, an Amazon.com subsidiary, to digitize the motion pictures in its collection. |
Wired
September 24, 2007
Jason Buhrmester |
NFL Films' Exhaustive Archive Is Rushing Into the Digital Age Converting film to digital video makes searching for key moments in football history easier. |
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... |
Geotimes
October 2007
Fred Schwab |
Flicking Out on Mother Earth Movies may be the most cost-effective way to raise awareness of an issue and stimulate action. The geological community seems to have gotten the message. |
InternetNews
October 10, 2007
Jennifer Schiff |
Library of Congress Readies New Digital Archive After several years of planning and testing, the Library of Congress is about to put its new petascale archive into production. |
BusinessWeek
October 10, 2005
Jack Ewing |
Write-Offs Ride Off Into The Sunset German politicians of all stripes agree: Film funds and other shelters for the rich must go. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005
Jason Bush |
Lights! Camera! Russian Movies! Rising living standards, a patriotic mood, and savvier film-making spark a revival in Russian cinema. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
Paranoid Park--Tartan Video (Blu-ray Import) "Paranoid Park" is an effective character drama from Gus Van Sant. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2009
Middleton & Conner |
Volunteer Voices Volunteer Voices, Tennessee's statewide digitization program, promotes resource sharing among libraries. |
Fast Company
June 2012
Evan Hochberg |
How Collectives Help Indie Filmmakers Make Better Movies Beasts of the Southern Wild, which nabbed Sundance's top 2012 prize and comes out June 27, is the product of a new trend in indie films -- collectives, or groups of collaborating artists. Collectives champs explain. |
Outside
November 2008
Alex Crevar |
A Brief History of Mountain Film The Banff Mountain Film Festival returns for its 33rd edition, with some 500 screenings in 30 countries. Here's a look at how high-altitude cinema arose from low-rent beginnings. |
Home Theater
April 2008
Kris Deering |
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen--Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray) The standard photography in this film looks great with exceptional depth and better detail than one would expect given its age, but the effects don't hold up quite as well. |
Salon.com
November 5, 2002
Shana Ting Lipton |
Weapons of mass instruction "Koyaanisqatsi" director Godfrey Reggio invented a film genre, prefiguring the campus classic "Baraka." There are no words in his latest -- just one cutting image after another. |
D-Lib
March 2000
Catherine Owen, Tony Pearson, & Stephen Arnold |
Meeting the Challenge of Film Research in the Electronic Age ...This article seeks to present the challenges facing library professionals and those working in film archives in building on-line collections of data for use in film research and teaching.... |
Fast Company
July 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Watch: Harry Potter 6 Accio ticket sales! The Hogwarts crew returns with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 15. So far, the films' grosses have been stunningly consistent. Here's how other major franchises compare. |
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. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2008
P. Toby Graham |
Civil Rights Digital Library The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) is the most ambitious and comprehensive initiative to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web. |
D-Lib
September 2002 |
Australian Museums & Galleries Online Australian Museums & Galleries Online serves as a portal to Australia's cultural heritage, providing a single web site entry point to a large percentage of Australia's museums and galleries, as well as preserving and promoting Australia's cultural identity worldwide. |
Reason
October 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Filming for Freedom The Moving Picture Institute is the AV department for the vast libertarian conspiracy. It funds films celebrating liberty, it trains young filmmakers, and it helps them make connections in the mainstream. Here's an interview with the executive director. |
D-Lib
April 2004
Dobratz & Neuroth |
nestor: Network of Expertise in Long-term STOrage of Digital Resources A Digital Preservation Initiative for Germany |
