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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
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
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. |
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
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 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
March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project |
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. |
PC Magazine
September 12, 2007 |
Best Of the Internet Know More... The Open Library... Spock... |
Information Today
December 2002
Roger Bilboul |
The Library of Alexandria Reopens This brand-new institution claims an influential, ancient legacy. |
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
February 17, 2015 |
ProQuest Announces Digitization of Early European Books ProQuest released the first 2 million pages -- about 5,800 books -- from its digitization project of rare, historical works at the National Library of France. |
Information Today
May 23, 2011 |
National Library of France Embarks on Huge Digitization Project The BnF, the National Library of France, has signed a new deal with the Jouve-Safig-Diadeis partnership for the digitization of its print collections. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
May 18, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Building the Universal Library What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? Here is a fascinating look at the challenges. |
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
November 8, 2010
Barbie E. Keiser |
Some Progress But Not Enough: GAO Issues Update on the EPA Library Network When reading the GAO report released on Nov. 1, it's important to distinguish between indictments of the Agency and the work it was supposed to do from the progress that the library network has made. |
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. |
Information Today
February 9, 2012 |
Amigos and Missouri Library Network Announce Agreement to Explore Merger If the organizations merge, Amigos will be the largest library consortium west of the Mississippi River, comprising about 1,000 libraries and cultural heritage institutions in 22 states. |
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
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. |
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 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
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
May 8, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Blackwell Launches Journal Backfile Digitization Program... Attensity Upgrades Its Text Analytics Software... Internet Archive Releases New Version of Its Archiving Service... etc. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Dawei & Yigang |
The National Digital Library Project This paper introduces the National Digital Library Project (NDLP) in China, and covers its basic characteristics, objectives, and content. |
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
December 2005
Dick Kaser |
War and Peace What will Google's project yield if the pending legal actions halt the digitization of anything other than books in the public domain? |
Information Today
October 9, 2006
Susanne Bjorner |
Google Library Project Expands to Spain The Universidad Complutense Madrid has become the first library in continental Europe and in a non-English speaking country to join the 2-year-old Google Book Search program. |
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. |
Information Today
May 12, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
LC Works to Make Collections Accessible and Compelling The venerable Library of Congress (LC), has been leading the way with some exciting digital preservation projects and working with leading multimedia partners on innovative projects. |
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
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. |
Information Today
December 10, 2013 |
Archive Sheds Light on Chinese, American, and Pacific Relationships Adam Matthew introduced China, America and the Pacific, a multilibrary archive that aggregates English-language primary sources on the trading and cultural relationships among those regions from 1700 to 1900. |
Information Today
June 13, 2011 |
The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive Internet Archive announced it is building a physical archive for the long-term preservation of one copy of every book, record, and movie it is able to attract or acquire. |
Information Today
December 10, 2013 |
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations. |
Information Today
October 18, 2010 |
Full-Text Doctoral Dissertations on Middle East and Islamic Studies Available Free The British Library's partnership project with the Chicago-based Center for Research Libraries has now released digitized copies of 400 U.K. Ph.D. theses on Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. |
Reason
April 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Artifact: Playing Tag After 208 years of keeping the privilege for itself, the Library of Congress posted 3,100 public-domain images on the commercial photo-sharing website Flickr and letting the America help categorize its sprawling collection. |
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. |
Salon.com
November 2, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Dumpster diving on the Web The Internet Wayback Machine aims to archive everything online. But will copyright laws leave nothing but junk? |
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. |
