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Information Today November 6, 2014 |
Library of Congress Releases Digital Preservation Survey Results The survey explores the state of digital preservation practice and how organizations and professionals can do preservation work. |
Information Today January 6, 2015 |
Library of Congress Seeks Applications for National Digital Stewardship Residency The Library of Congress' digital preservation blog, The Signal, announced the official open call for applications for the 2015-2016 National Digital Stewardship Residency. |
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. |
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 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. |
D-Lib May 2002 Bonita Wilson |
Digital Preservation -- A Long Journey Research involving digital preservation is extremely complex and presents enormous problems, but it is important to make a start... |
Information Today May 14, 2012 |
Ex Libris Announces the Launch of Rosetta 3.0 Rosetta is a digital preservation system, which provides a new user interface, advanced search options, a collection management module, and other management and preservation features. |
Information Today July 17, 2008 |
New Report on Copyright Law and Digital Preservation The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has issued a joint report on the impact of copyright law on digital preservation. |
D-Lib December 2005 Bonita Wilson |
Five Views of the Archive, Ingest and Handling Test An editorial describing the five views of the Archiving, Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT), a project sponsored by the Library of Congress under the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). |
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 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. |
D-Lib October 2000 James J. O'Donnell |
LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress It is the Library of Congress's fate to be a symbol as well as a library... |
Information Today May 31, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest OCLC Improves Digital Collection Management Software... Library of Congress Joins Internet2... Microsoft Introduces MSN Desktop Search... |
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 April 14, 2008 Kathy Dempsey |
The Library of Congress Delivers a Whole New Experience Digitizing archival treasures to allow wider access has become a major strategy in many organizations, and the venerable Library of Congress has just put itself at the forefront of that movement again. |
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 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 November 5, 2013 |
Internet Archive Brings Old Programs Back to Life The Internet Archive released an open beta version of JAVASCRIPT MESS (JSMESS), a flexible, JavaScript-based program that users can run from their internet browsers to access old computer programs. |
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 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 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 June 2006 Abby Smith |
Distributed Preservation in a National Context: NDIIPP at Mid-point A summary of the progress of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program - five and a half years after its inception. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 Jinfang Niu |
Functionalities of Web Archives The functionalities that are important to the users of web archives range from basic searching and browsing to advanced personalized and customized services, data mining, and website reconstruction. |
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 June 23, 2015 Corilee Christou |
Finding a Librarian of Congress for the Digital Age It's time to move on and finally hire, first and foremost, a Librarian of Congress with the appropriate library degree and experience. |
Information Today September 8, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Library of Congress Accepts September 11 Digital Archive... Nstein Launches Knowledge Base Manager... Factiva Offers New Subscription Options for Occasional Users... |
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. |
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 May 21, 2015 |
The British Library Plans to Digitize Historic Sounds Collection The Heritage Lottery Fund endorsed the British Library with earmarked funding to help the library digitize its archive of 500,000 sound recordings and other collections from the U.K. and provide them online. |
Information Today February 23, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest LC Database Implements OpenURL Linking... Bowker Launches PatronBooksInPrint.com... HP Creating Digital Archive of Time Magazine... |
Searcher October 2008 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Gaslight Librarians scattered across the country, committed to the preservation and dissemination of public information can do a more thorough and secure job than just federal agencies alone. |
Information Today February 3, 2015 |
ProQuest Extends LC Partnership; Reveals Details About New Ebook Platform ProQuest became a partner in the Library of Congress' Electronic Cataloging in Publication and BIBCO programs, allowing the company to assist in preparing prepublication metadata for digital products. |
Information Today November 28, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Thomson Scientific launches web citation index... Internet Archive offers new archive service... ScholarOne and Atypon collaborate... |
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. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 Jinfang Niu |
An Overview of Web Archiving This overview is a study of the methods used at a variety of universities, and international government libraries and archives, to select, acquire, describe and access web resources for their archives. |
Information Today August 28, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Consortium--Minus NARA--Archiving Bush Administration Websites Archiving policies, procedures, and assignments have not kept pace with the rapid switch of the federal government to web technology. |
Information Today January 14, 2010 |
Ex Libris Announces the Beta Release of Rosetta Version 2.0 The system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to documents for perpetuity-institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitized materials. |
Information Today February 13, 2014 |
GPO Releases XML-Formatted Bill Summaries The U.S. Government Printing Office teamed up with the Library of Congress to provide bill summaries from the U.S. House of Representatives available for downloading in XML format. |
D-Lib May 2003 Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
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. |
Information Today July 30, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
Preserving Our Digital World (#digpres2013) Organized by the Library of Congress, #digpres2013 brought scores of archivists, librarians, and information specialists together to explore solutions to the challenges of stewarding digital content over the long-term. |
PC Magazine February 8, 2005 Peter Suciu |
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 The new addition to the popular roller-coaster-building series features an easier-to-use interface. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Acquisition, Access, and Preservation You will find an emphasis on preservation, but taken as a whole, the issue covers the waterfront of digital library topics, i.e., acquiring information, making it accessible, and preserving it. |
D-Lib April 2002 Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date... |
Information Today August 23, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Internet Archive Turns Up the Speed With BitTorrent The Internet Archive gave peer-to-peer file sharing a major boost by making more than 1 million books, movies, and other media immediately available as "torrents" from BitTorrent instead of solely relying on HTTP for downloading content. |
D-Lib June 2000 Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
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 June 1, 2010 |
LC and Columbia University to Develop Geospatial Data-Preservation Clearinghouse The Library's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program will fund development of the clearinghouse at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia's Earth Institute. CIESIN will launch a beta version of the clearinghouse later this year. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Kuali OLE System Partners receive $882,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation... IMLS Congressional Justification Now Available... Wellcome Library's Digital Asset Player... |
D-Lib April 2004 |
In Brief Open GIS Consortium Online Standards Testing... The Xgrain II Project... DigiStates... In the News... etc. |