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Information Today
September 10, 2009 |
Rare Sound Recordings Now Available Free Online The British Library has made nearly 28,000 rare music and sound recordings from its massive collection, reputed to be one of the largest sound archives in the world, available for free online   |
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. |
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
August 13, 2015 |
Innovative's SkyRiver Gains British Library Metadata SkyRiver, a cataloging utility product from Innovative, is making more than 3.5 million records from the British Library's British National Bibliography available to library customers. |
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 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
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
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. |
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
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. |
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
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 8, 2010 |
Alexander Street Press Jazzes Up Its Collections In 2011, Alexander Street's plan is for Music Online to hit the milestone of 1 million recordings. The company also promises no price increases. |
Information Today
October 18, 2010 |
Full-Text Doctoral Dissertations on Middle East and Islamic Studies Available Free The British Library's partnership project with the Chicago-based Center for Research Libraries has now released digitized copies of 400 U.K. Ph.D. theses on Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. |
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. |
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
July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
Information Today
April 16, 2015 |
3M Cloud Library Expands Into the U.K. and Australia To support its entry into the new markets, 3M will supply dedicated sales and support resources across the U.K. and Australia. |
Information Today
January 5, 2016 |
British Library Makes Digitization Progress on Historic Maps The British Library is a quarter of the way through its project to re-catalog, digitize, and conserve King George III's collection of 50,000 maps dating from around 1500 to 1824. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
Libraries Receive Grants to Digitize Resources The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency that lends support to the nation's museums and libraries, has announced the recipients of its Library Preservation and Digitization Grants... |
D-Lib
December 2008
Arlitsch, Neatrour & Rice |
D-Lib Featured Collection November/December 2008: Western Soundscape Archive The Western Soundscape Archive (WSA) is a searchable online collection of natural sounds with a unique focus on terrestrial vertebrates from the western United States, including amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. |
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... |
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. |
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
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. |
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
October 2, 2006
Robin Peek |
The British Library Releases Intellectual Property Manifesto The British Library released a document called "Intellectual Property: A Balance - The British Library Manifesto," which tackles increasingly unforgiving intellectual property laws. |
Information Today
November 17, 2015 |
The British Library Plans to Digitize Indian Texts The British Library announced Two Centuries of Indian Print, a pilot project for the major digitization program of its Indian books dating from 1714 to 1914. |
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. |
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
February 25, 2010
Barbara Quint |
19th-Century Books From The British Library on Kindle for Free Last year, Microsoft completed its digitization obligations to The British Library and handed over 25 million pages in 65,000 19th-century books. |
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 14, 2011 |
Alexander Street Press Adds EMI recordings to Classical Music Library Alexander Street Press announced the addition of nearly 22,500 recordings from EMI and EMI sub-labels Virgin Classics and Angel Records to its streaming music collection for libraries and educational institutions, Classical Music Library. |
D-Lib
June 2009
Evens & Hauttekeete |
Unlocking Audio: Towards an Online Repository of Spoken Word Collections in Flanders Currently, Flanders lags behind other European regions when it comes to using innovative tools to facilitate access to its oral history collections. |
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. |
Information Today
November 29, 2010 |
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. |
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
August 5, 2014 |
Wellcome Library and Jisc Will Digitize Historic Medical Books The Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Trust, and Jisc partnered with nine institutions, including six universities, for a 2-year digitization project encompassing 19th-century medical books and pamphlets. |
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Better Late Than Never Staff at a British library say they were surprised and puzzled when they received a book that was 45 years overdue through their mailbox. |
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. |
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... |
InternetNews
November 1, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books. |
Information Today
July 7, 2008 |
Missouri Launches Collaborative Historical Search Portal Missouri has launched a free collaborative search portal that integrates millions of historical documents from the state's local libraries, universities, and cultural institutions in a single web gateway. |
Information Today
November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. |
Information Today
December 27, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
Information Today
February 9, 2012 |
Amigos and Missouri Library Network Announce Agreement to Explore Merger If the organizations merge, Amigos will be the largest library consortium west of the Mississippi River, comprising about 1,000 libraries and cultural heritage institutions in 22 states. |
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
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
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
December 10, 2013 |
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations. |
