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Information Today
December 1, 2015 |
DPLA Helps Make Audiovisual Collections Searchable The Digital Public Library of America partnered with Pop Up Archive to offer discounts that help the DPLA hubs and their partners use Pop Up Archive to make their audiovisual collections searchable.   |
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 |
Information Today
February 17, 2015 |
DPLA Updates KriKri Metadata Aggregation Engine The Digital Public Library of America launched KriKri version 0.1.3, which is used as part of the DPLA's metadata ingestion system. |
Information Today
September 10, 2013 |
HathiTrust Records Go Live on the DPLA HathiTrust, which preserves freely available resources from universities and libraries, partnered with the Digital Public Library of America in June and will continue to host the content now searchable through the DPLA. |
Information Today
April 22, 2013
Paula J. Hane |
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Makes Its Debut The Digital Public Library of America will now begin to assemble the riches of our country's libraries, archives, and museums, and connect them with the public. |
Information Today
May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
Information Today
November 1, 2012 |
Concrete Steps Toward a Digital Public Library of America The DPLA plans to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all via a large-scale digital library. |
Information Today
November 5, 2013 |
DPLA Launches Bookshelf Feature Browsing ebooks, serials, and journals on the DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) website recently became easier with the launch of the open source DPLA Bookshelf, a collection of the DPLA's more than 1 million online books and periodicals. |
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
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. |
Information Today
April 21, 2015 |
DPLA Celebrates 2-Year Anniversary The Digital Public Library of America made several announcements during DPLAfest to spread awareness of its new partnerships, initiatives, and milestones. |
Fast Company
April 2013
Tara Moore |
The Digital Public Library Of America Launches, But Doesn't Google Already Do That? The Digital Public Library of America launches this month, aiming to put America's entire literary history online. |
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. |
Information Today
May 26, 2011 |
Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee Announces 'Beta Sprint' The Beta Sprint seeks ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user interfaces, forms -- that demonstrate how the DPLA might index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content. |
Information Today
June 17, 2013 |
Gale-Smithsonian Partnership's Magazine Archive Goes Live Earlier this year, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution to create library and academic resources by digitizing some of the Smithsonian's collections. |
Information Today
October 28, 2014 |
Manuscripts From the Vatican Library Are Free Online The Vatican Library is working on a digitization project that will make its archive of 82,000 ancient manuscripts available to the public for free. |
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
April 26, 2012 |
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available The Harvard Library announced it would make more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available. |
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. |
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
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. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
Gregory & Williams |
On Being a Hub: Some Details behind Providing Metadata for the Digital Public Library of America This article describes the technological side of being a service hub for the DPLA, from choosing metadata requirements and reviewing software, to the workflow used each month. |
Information Today
November 3, 2011 |
Scientific American Archive Digitized From 1845 The archive, extending from Vol. 1, Issue 1, is available at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. The last segment of the digitized archive encompassed the inaugural issue in August 1845 through December 1909. |
Information Today
September 15, 2015 |
Innovative Lays Out Strategic Goals Innovative released a set of strategic goals for the following areas: library success, employee success, product leadership, and library partnership. |
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. |
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
February 9, 2009 |
New Report From DLF Evaluates Metadata Tools "Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators," is a report that identifies and evaluates tools that can be used to normalize and enhance metadata. |
Information Today
October 3, 2011 |
DPLA 'Beta Sprint' Review Panel Announces Results The Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee invited the creators of nine promising projects for the DPLA Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA might operate, to present at the public plenary meeting taking place on Oct. 21, 2011 in Washington, D.C. |
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
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
June 16, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Update on the Digital Public Library of America The dream of a national digital public library is inching closer to the planning stage. |
Information Today
August 24, 2009 |
ProQuest Adds New Content to Periodicals Archive Online ProQuest, LLC announced that Periodicals Archive Online offers three more ways to build a library's research archive with the addition of The Spectator to Collection 7, the launch of Collection 8, and the development of 5 additional years of coverage for journals in Collections 1-5. |
D-Lib
December 2004
Jia Liu |
Metadata Development in China: Research and Practice Chinese researchers and practitioners have now reached the point where metadata development and use have matured and become stable throughout the country's institutions. |
Information Today
March 7, 2011
Barbara Quint |
New Lending Model for Ebooks in Libraries from Internet Archive's OpenLibrary The swirling, chaotic ebook revolution continues to generate controversies, particularly in the library arena. |
Information Today
February 19, 2008 |
Vanderbilt TV News Archive to Deliver NBC Video The Vanderbilt Television News Archive and NBC Universal have formed a new partnership to provide streaming video access for students, researchers, and faculty at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. |
Information Today
May 28, 2015 |
Library of Congress Updates Website With New Interface and Web Archive Content This is the first big content release since June 2013, and it comes with a simplified interface and similarities to web archives at other institutions. |
Search Engine Watch
December 20, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Searching for Live Music Want to listen to a live recording, but don't want to risk potential problems from using a file sharing network like Kazaa or Morpheus? The Live Music Archive offers thousands of hours of free, legal music, available on demand. |
Information Today
October 8, 2012 |
ProQuest Expands Support for Research in Arts and Humanities Continuing its mission of making hard-to-find journals accessible to the world's researchers, ProQuest released the 10 th collection in its Periodicals Archive Online. |
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. |
Information Today
December 17, 2015 |
GPO Signs Up to Help Preserve Historical Government Technical Reports The U.S. Government Publishing Office became the first federal agency to join the Technical Report Archive & Image Library. The organizations will work together to advance free public access to government information |
Information Today
June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
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
Jul/Aug 2014
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We have a full issue this month, covering work flows, authority files, access restrictions, and the needs of researchers, plus a provocative position paper. |
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
July 7, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Come to the World eBook Fair! This year, the theme of the fair is Own Your Own Library and it promises 1 million-plus books free for the taking. |
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. |
PC Magazine
September 12, 2007 |
Best Of the Internet Know More... The Open Library... Spock... |
Information Today
August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
D-Lib
February 2006 |
A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive As digital libraries expand, we can look forward to a day when humanities and social science scholars replace much of the tedious manual effort with computer programs. Here is a description of a library that is being built for such research. |
Information Today
July 30, 2012 |
NEH Announces Award to Build Digital 'Library of the Future' To be created through a coalition of libraries, archives, museums, and other nonprofit and academic entities in coordination with the Open Knowledge Commons, the DPLA will ultimately serve as a single portal for diverse, interdisciplinary digital archives. |
