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Information Today
September 24, 2007 |
New Digital Preservation and Access Task Force Formed The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are funding a blue-ribbon task force to address the issue of economic sustainability for digital preservation and persistent access.   |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Brian F. Lavoie |
The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation How do we ensure that digital preservation activities survive beyond the current availability of soft-money funding? |
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. |
Information Today
March 18, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Digital Preservation Guidance From Blue Ribbon Task Force The technological challenges to long-term retention of digital content are great, but perhaps even greater are the economic and institutional challenges. |
Information Today
March 12, 2015 |
University of California Organizations Partner for Publishing Workflow Management System The University of California Press and the California Digital Library received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a content and workflow management system for publishing open access monographs. |
D-Lib
August 2007 |
In Brief Award-Winning TPAP Digital Preservation Prototype Keeps Growing... Excerpts from Recent Press Releases and Announcements... ALA sends three resolutions to Congress in support of GPO, NLS, NDIIPP... |
Information Today
November 15, 2010 |
Urban Libraries Seek Local Governments as Partners in Sustainability The Council's latest research report profiles how a strategic and successful relationship between the public library and the local government can be formed in order to accomplish sustainability for a community. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015 |
NISO Studies Patron Privacy The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded NISO (National Information Standards Organization) a grant to develop the Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
Mellon Foundation Grant for Digital Repository Economic Model Awarded to MIT Libraries The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has donated $215,000 to MIT to develop an economic model to maintain digital documents within an academic research library... |
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
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... |
D-Lib
December 2006
Cindy Boeke |
IPRES 2006 Conference Report: Digital Preservation Takes Off in the E-Environment Giving the need for long-term digital storage is the attention it deserves. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2005 |
Library of Congress Launches Website The Library of Congress has launched a Web site to cover the work of a special independent committee that is recommending changes to section 108 of the Copyright Act. |
Information Today
August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience |
D-Lib
April 2003
Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand |
Information Today
October 27, 2008 |
Bibliotheque nationale de France to Add Records to WorldCat OCLC and Bibliotheque nationale de France have signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC's WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding information in libraries. |
Information Today
April 10, 2008 |
Article Records From British Library Now in WorldCat.org OCLC announced it has added some 20 million article-level metadata records to WorldCat.org from The British Library. |
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. |
Information Today
April 12, 2010
Barbara Quint |
WorldCat Record Use Policy Changes at OCLC OCLC is making a second attempt to define the acceptable use of records in WorldCat, the world's largest library union catalog. |
Information Today
March 2, 2009 |
ARL Calls on OCLC to Develop New Policy for WorldCat Records The Association of Research Libraries Ad Hoc Task Force to Review the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records has issued its final report, which calls on OCLC to develop a new policy to replace the one released in November 2008 |
Information Today
February 24, 2015 |
ALA Council Accepts 2015 Master's Program Standards for Accreditation The Council of the American Library Association approved the adoption of the 2015 Standards for Accreditation of Master's Programs in Library and Information Studies. |
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
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
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
February 2001
Kenneth Thibodeau |
Building the Archives of the Future Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration... |
D-Lib
April 2004
Brian F. Lavoie |
Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems. |
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
Jul/Aug 2004
Neil Beagrie |
The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Ultimately, digital preservation will be successful when it can be seen not as a stand alone institutional activity but as an activity embedded in how institutions manage and approach digital information and resources on an ongoing basis. |
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. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007 |
In Brief BioMed Central expands with PhysMath Central... Announcing public release of DAITSS... JISC sponsors Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year Award... etc. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
November 22, 2010 |
The British Library Adds 12 Million Records to WorldCat As a result of the cooperative effort, OCLC and the British Library have enhanced the process to add these valuable records to WorldCat for the benefit of researchers worldwide. |
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. |
Information Today
January 15, 2009 |
OCLC Still Reviewing Policy for Use of WorldCat Records The goals of the new policy are to modernize record use and transfer practices for application on the web, foster new uses of WorldCat data that benefit members, and clarify data-sharing rights and restrictions. |
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 2011
Li & Banach |
Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Digital preservation is a significant problem facing libraries. Libraries are struggling with how to preserve the scholarly and cultural record now that this information is increasingly being produced in digital formats. |
Information Today
July 30, 2001
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Abandons Proprietary Software for Oracle Standard, Institutes Web Document Archiving Service OCLC, the leading library vendor, continues building for its future as a master player in the emerging virtual library world. Getting down to basics, it has announced that it will substitute the market-standard Oracle software as its basic platform... |
Information Today
March 17, 2008
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Library Closures: Management Incompetence or Something More Sinister? The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found extensive problems with how EPA implemented the library closures and questions any cost savings as a result of these efforts to consolidate. |
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). |
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. |
Information Today
September 17, 2009 |
OCLC Convenes Council to Develop New WorldCat Record Use Policy The intent is to recommend to the OCLC board of trustees a new policy that is aligned with the present and future information landscape. |
Information Today
May 22, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search. |
D-Lib
April 2002
Neil Beagrie |
An Update on The Digital Preservation Coalition This article reports on its progress and how the DPC aims to develop a UK digital preservation agenda within an international context... |
Information Today
August 25, 2003 |
News Digest Proposals Sought for Digital Preservation Projects... News from OCLC... AltaVista Offers New Search Toolbar |
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... |
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
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... |
