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Information Today
September 15, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive.   |
D-Lib
March 2003
Arlitsch et al. |
The Utah Digital Newspapers Project This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a partnership between the University of Utah and two commercial organizations. |
Information Today
March 26, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Chronicling America Service Offers Comprehensive Directory of U.S. Newspapers The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC) have inaugurated a new online service for America's historic newspapers called Chronicling America. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Edwin Klijn |
The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective The market and technology adjust to accommodate the trend of newspaper collection digitization by libraries. |
Information Today
March 20, 2008 |
Chronicling America Site Adds Content and Features More than 79,000 newly digitized newspaper pages, along with several new site features, have recently been added to the Chronicling America website. |
Information Today
January 15, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Bell & Howell Announces ProQuest Historical Newspapers Project and The New York Times as the First Available Digital Backfile... |
Information Today
August 2009
Barbara Quint |
Feature: Where Have All the Archives Gone? What are libraries getting for their precious and shrinking institutional dollars? The most interesting factor is what they are not getting, and all too often, that is a complete archive of online publications, including newspapers. |
D-Lib
August 2009
Tanner et al. |
Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive |
Information Today
May 28, 2002
Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives. |
Information Today
July 7, 2008 |
Readex Partners With CRL on World Newspaper Archive Readex, a division of NewsBank, Inc, and the Center for Research Libraries announced that they will create the world's largest, fully searchable digital archive of international newspapers. |
Information Today
January 22, 2007 |
Readex Adds More Historical Newspapers to Archive Readex, a division of NewsBank, announced that it will begin adding two new series of fully searchable newspapers to its ongoing America's Historical Newspapers archive. |
Information Today
February 18, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Microfilm Still Matters in the Digital Age The microfilm business is still going strong. ProQuest, which has the largest commercially available microform collection in the world, adds millions of microfilm images each year. |
Information Today
September 6, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest LexisNexis and Biz360 partner on reputation monitoring solution... ProQuest to digitize small town newspaper archives... Swets partners with Taylor & Francis to launch new eCollections Swets Information Services... |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
July 19, 2010 |
LYRASIS Partners with Creekside Digital to Offer Expanded Microfilm Scanning Services LYRASIS' Mass Digitization Collaborative enables members to digitize books, serials, and newspapers for a low fee. LYRASIS is the nation's largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals. |
Information Today
September 18, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Full-Image Newspaper Collection Launches New Version... Readex Launches New Interface for Newspaper Collections... EOS International Adds FileTrail RFID Tracking... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Rose Holley |
How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitization Programs This article details the work undertaken by the National Library of Australia Newspaper Digitisation Program on identifying and testing solutions to improve OCR accuracy in large scale newspaper digitisation programs. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014 |
ProQuest Gains Texas Newspaper Archive ProQuest added the digital archive of the daily Austin American-Statesman newspaper to its ProQuest Historical Newspapers collection. |
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. |
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
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
September 18, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive. |
Searcher
June 2001
Barbara Quint |
Don't Burn Books! Burn Librarians!! A Review of Nicholson Baker's Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper... |
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... |
Searcher
May 2010
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions. |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2003
Larry Krumenaker |
Tribunes and Tribulation The Top 100 Newspaper Archives (or Lack Thereof) A look at the options available for searching archives of the most popular newspapers. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. |
Information Today
August 12, 2002 |
News Digest LexisNexis Enhances Patent Offerings... Cold North Wind to Digitize The Washington Star Archives... Vivisimo Adds Content Integrator, Enterprise Publisher |
Information Today
September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
Information Today
June 25, 2013 |
Gale Debuts Four Archives for 19th-Century Research Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Gale's worldwide, multiyear digitization program, offers rare 19th-century primary sources such as newspapers, maps, and photographs from more than 80 institutions around the world. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014
George V. Landon |
Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'13) Technical areas covered in the workshop included information extraction and retrieval; reconstruction and degradation; text and image recognition and segmentation; and layout analysis and databases. |
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. |
PC Magazine
March 13, 2009
John C. Dvorak |
Newspaper Publishers Are Idiots For too long newspapers have taken on the role of cultural arbiter and distribution channel for popular culture ideas. That is all over and can never return. |
Salon.com
April 27, 2001
Stephanie Zacharek |
"Double Fold" by Nicholson Baker A crusading novelist indicts America's libraries for destroying precious archives of newspapers and books -- and puts his own savings on the line to rescue them... |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2006
Emil Lee |
An Opportunity for Innovation If newspapers as an industry could more effectively transition their revenue-generating sources and distribution mechanisms online, then they could benefit readers and shareholders alike. |
InternetNews
November 9, 2005
Tim Gray |
'Net Effect: Shrinking Newsprint Newspaper circulation slides as online access grows. |
Information Today
January 9, 2012 |
'Yes We Scan' Petition Sent to President Individual agencies have thought about the problem in terms of prototypes and pilots. Only the White House can bring these efforts together under one roof and begin to think in terms of a national digitization strategy for our federal government. |
D-Lib
April 2004
Nancy Allen |
Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) The Colorado Digitization Project has broadened its scope, and serves a number of roles as a collaborative organization supporting digitization infrastructure for cultural heritage organizations of all kinds. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Dahlstrom & Doracic |
Digitization Education: Courses Taken and Lessons Learned The aims and nature of cultural heritage (CH) digitization education at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), accompanied with a brief overview of Nordic CH digitization education efforts. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Will All Newspapers Fold? Rich old men vie to buy fading newspapers. Does anyone else care? Given their business prowess, why would the billionaires be interested in owning withering daily newspapers? Investors, take note. |
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
August 20, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
What's Next for the Bezos-Owned Washington Post The sale of the Post hasn't been the only recent ownership change in the newspaper industry, but the Post is important far beyond the D.C. area with a rich 136-year history. |
Search Engine Watch
January 20, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Today's Newspapers Around the World Want to see what today's print version of your favorite newspaper looks like online? Two services offer reproductions of dozens of newspapers from around the world. |
ONLINE
September 2001
Marydee Ojala |
Preservation, Conservation, and Copyright We use technology to preserve the past. We access the technologically preserved past to help us predict the future. Digitizing information has considerable consequences... |
Information Today
January 26, 2012 |
Gale Outlines First Archives for Nineteenth Century Collections Online Gale announced the source libraries, collections, and plans for the first four modules of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, its global digitization and publishing program that brings together rare 19th-century primary source content. |
Information Today
January 10, 2008 |
Readex to Release Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808--1980 This new digital resource represents what the company calls the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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. |
