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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
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
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. |
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
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
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. |
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 31, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest OCLC Improves Digital Collection Management Software... Library of Congress Joins Internet2... Microsoft Introduces MSN Desktop Search... |
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
December 10, 2007
Barbara Quint |
The Library of Congress and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Working Group Report The recommendations of the report seem predominantly focused on book cataloging and, in that regard, how to curtail the Library of Congress' role in the future. |
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
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
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
May 2003
Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
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... |
Information Today
March 5, 2012
Victoria McCargar |
Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures Back in November 2011, the Library of Congress blogged about a new online service called Viewshare, a web domain where cultural heritage institutions can show off their digital treasures free of charge. |
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
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. |
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. |
Searcher
December 2000 |
The Future of the Past: History Sources on the Internet Historians and historical-fiction writers bring history to life through the skillful selection of details from daily life. For researchers of history, the number of Internet resources is increasing rapidly... |
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... |
D-Lib
April 2002
Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date... |
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. |
Information Today
March 2001
Laverna Saunders |
Building the Virtual Reference Desk The distribution of electronic full text to users wherever they are has resulted in fewer transactions at the reference desk. Librarians, therfore, are eager to learn about using developments in digital reference services as a strategy for reaching patrons... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009 |
In Brief Reflective learning for the net generation... The SKUA project: prototyping a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services... The Erewhon project: more comprehensive location-based services... etc. |
D-Lib
April 2006
Paul Miller |
Coming Together Around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms To achieve the vision of Library 2.0, in which libraries become ever more relevant as visible and accessible providers of valuable content and context, many of the models in evidence today will require dramatic change. |
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
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. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc. |
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. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009
Gretchen Gueguen |
Joyner Library Digital Collections The Joyner Library Digital Collections home page maximizes browsing potential, offers selected featured items, a small subject cloud, and links to each collection, as well as provides a basic repository keyword search. |
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. |
D-Lib
June 2000 |
In Brief Report on the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000 Conference... First ACM/IEEE CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Announced... Gottingen Gutenberg Bible Goes Digital... Cooperation between the British Library and UK Universities... A National Union Catalogue for the UK?... |
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. |
Information Today
January 15, 2007 |
Library of Congress Unveils Beta of New THOMAS The Library of Congress has released a new beta version of THOMAS, its Web site that provides access to federal legislation and related documents. |
D-Lib
March 2001 |
In Brief Award to Penn State University Libraries to support an extensive study of digital image delivery... Digitization of Printed Material: The METAe Project... The Special Collections Virtual Reading Room... etc. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
D-Lib
July 2001 |
In Brief Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries... Project ANGEL: Guidance and Guardianship for Networked UK Learners... The City of Los Angeles Spatial Index is Now Available on the Internet... Caltech Registers Two Repositories with the Open Archives Initiative... 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. |
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
December 2006
Manduca et al. |
Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use Some key approaches that have been successful for the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) in engaging geoscience educators, both as contributors and users in the Teach the Earth library. |
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
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
January 2000 |
In Brief Campus Computing, 1999: The Continuing Challenge of Instructional Integration... Openly Informatics Unveils Virtual Linking Service... Applications Are Being Accepted for the MOST International Ph.D. Award (2000-2001)... "One-Stop" Scholarly Searching Unveiled in New Release of the California Digital Library... etc. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit... |
Information Today
October 14, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
The Libhub Initiative: Making Libraries More Visible This project aims to raise the web visibility of libraries' resources by allowing search engines to see inside a library to the item level. |
Searcher
March 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Hey, OCLC! Got a Minute? The greatest reaction to the Working Group's report on bibliographic control is that the Library of Congress might have better things to do with its resources than serve as the primary cataloger for the libraries of the world. |
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... |
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. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
