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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.   |
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
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. |
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. |
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
October 8, 2015 |
Bibliotheca Takes On 3M Library Systems Bibliotheca's shareholders, One Equity Partners, completed the acquisition of 3M Library Systems' North American business, including its security, productivity, and cloud solutions. |
Information Today
October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science. |
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. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2002
James Ghaphery |
My Library at Virginia Commonwealth University: Third Year Evaluation My Library is a personalization tool that allows the library user to consolidate frequently used library resources and services. Since 1998, My Library has been available as a web page to users of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. |
D-Lib
November 2000
Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders... |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2000 |
Late Breaks - Endeavor Information Systems In association with Endeavor Information Systems, Sun Microsystems' technology is the incubator for a full-featured digital library solution, called ENCompass... |
Information Today
October 15, 2015 |
Bibliotheca Puts Cloud Library First On the heels of its acquisition of 3M Library Systems, Bibliotheca revealed that the 3M Cloud Library will become its primary digital product. |
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
July 28, 2011 |
Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online. |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Andrew Lawler |
Raising Alexandria More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded the city, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains, from the likely site of Cleopatra's palace to pieces of an astonishing lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. |
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
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... |
D-Lib
October 2000
John V. Lombardi |
Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems... |
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
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. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records... |
Information Today
March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
Information Today
December 2000 |
Innovative Interfaces Announces E-Book Integration, Millennium Implementations Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced the integration of netLibrary e-books into its INNOPAC and Millennium library automation systems... |
Information Today
February 21, 2008 |
Microsoft Utilizes ABBYY FineReader Engine for Live Search Books Microsoft selects FineReader Engine software development kit (SDK) to convert text from books to searchable electronic data. |
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
April 11, 2011 |
Gale Offers Free Access to Resources During National Library Week Gale is offering free access to six online resources for use by any library. Free access runs through National Library Week, from April 10 to April 24, 2011. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
Information Today
July 16, 2009 |
Library of Congress and DuraSpace Launch Cloud Technologies Pilot Program They will launch a 1-year pilot program to test the use of cloud technologies to enable perpetual access to digital content. |
Information Today
September 4, 2014 |
WorldCat Adds Holdings From China The Shanghai Library contributed 2 million holdings to WorldCat -- including about 770,000 unique bibliographic records -- making the library's collection available worldwide. |
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
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 2007
Gary Flood |
The London Library: Portrait of a Lady This library is unlike any other library. Because it is self-funding, it can choose which books to buy, how to organize them, and what kind of check out policies to have. |
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. |
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... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking. |
Information Today
March 6, 2008 |
National Library of China to Add Its Records to OCLC WorldCat The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, making those records available to researchers worldwide. |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010 |
In Brief and In the News HumBox... CACAO project overview... Digital Classicist Summer Seminar Series 2010... The Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership... Frontiers of science: Science fact in a comic strip... etc. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Theron Westervelt |
Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation The Library of Congress has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and long-term access, especially with regard to digital formats. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
Searcher
September 2004
Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Branin et al. |
In Brief LIS Editors Launch Effort to Develop Best Practices for LIS Journals... Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service... etc. |
D-Lib
February 2006
Erika Dowell |
D-Lib Featured Collection February 2006: The Lilly Library The Lilly Library, like other special collections libraries, is poised between the print and the digital worlds. |
D-Lib
December 2000 |
The Art Museum Image Consortium's AMICO Library Have you ever wanted to rearrange the galleries in a museum so that works were grouped according to your intellectual criteria? Would you like to compare a chair from ancient Egypt to that of an African chief to the famous Barcelona Chair created by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe in 1929? You can.... |
Information Today
August 26, 2010 |
The British Library to Offer Free Access to Bibliographic Records The U.K. national library has around 14 million catalogue records comprising a wealth of bibliographic data. The initiative will help expose this vast dataset to users worldwide. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Information Today
June 2007
Scott Koerwer |
Spotlight on Presidential Libraries A list of presidential libraries across the nation. |
D-Lib
December 2003
Connaway & Lawrence |
Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study The research reported in this article is an attempt to identify resource allocations for an all-paper library and the all-digital library that provides ejournals, eBooks, electronic maps, and digital audio, video, and images, based on information gathered from a group of research librarians. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012 |
In Brief and In the News UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries... Can culture on the web change peoples lives?... Europeana reaches 20 million items... |
D-Lib
October 2001
Sally Jo Cunningham |
Report on the 5th European Conference on Digital Libraries The ECDL 2001 call for papers emphasized "convergence": the drawing together of features from existing libraries, archives, and museums to create integrated digital resources... |
