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HathiTrust Digital Library offers full-text search
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This is from their press release and is significant information for any researcher. You can find the full press release here . A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages ...1 week ago -
New Pogoplug multimedia sharing device via USB
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Cloud Engines unveiled the second generation of the award winning Pogoplug multimedia sharing device today giving consumers more flexibility to store personal content safely in the home and access, manage, and share it from anywhere on the Internet. The new Pogoplug hardware sports a new design boasting multiple USB ...1 week ago -
SLA Click U: Understanding Digital Libraries
Government Info Pro —
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Washington D.C. Area Information Professionals: As the DC/SLA Click U Coordinator, Id like to share information with you about anupcoming Click U session. Click U sessions are a great way to keep upprofessionally. The sessions are free to SLA members but you do need toregister to attend the locally hosted ...2 weeks ago -
Call for participation: Libraries in the Digital Age 2010
Digitization 101 —
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Received via email... ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Zadar, Croatia, 24 - 28 May 2010 University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia ( http://www.unizd.hr/ ) Full information at: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Email: lida@ffos.hr The annual international ...2 weeks ago -
ASERL Lunch-N-Learn #2
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Today Mary Beth, Jean-Paul, and Erik attended the second ASERL lunch n learn webinar. The speakers were Toby Graham from the University of Georgia and Mary Molinaro from the University of Kentucky. Both presenters discussed several of the digital collections that their institutions have been working on for the last ...3 weeks ago -
Support for Research: An Academic Library Manifesto
Feral Librarian —
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Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto has just been published. This brief call to action document represents the collaborative work of the RLG Research Information Management Roadmap Working Group . The goal of the document is to set forth a “top 10″ list of action items for Academic ...3 weeks ago -
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009, from a distance
Curious.Judith —
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Turning from a conference i (mostly) attended to a conference i had no excuse to attend, this week was the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009). Twitter didn’t reveal much discussion with a few tweets discovered with “sigspatial” ...3 weeks ago -
Sorry, no copies available to request
Feral Librarian —
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I just tried requesting the The Stanford-Lockheed Meyer Library Flood Report through my local public library (ironically, the report is not available at any of the Stanford Libraries). All I got was a message that said: “Sorry, no copies available to request.” I poked around (‘cuz that’s what librarians do) ...4 weeks ago -
Cornell University Library publishes new digitization manual
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Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a new book published today by the Library. It is based on an Australian manual and revised to conform to American practice. It addresses the basics of copyright law and the exclusive rights of the copyright ...5 weeks ago -
CNI Conversations Series Podcasts
DigitalKoans —
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The Coalition for Networked Information launched the CNI Conversations series with Clifford A. Lynch in September. Two podcasts are now available: Oct. 6, 2009 Discussion topics included: Internet2 NDIIPP storage systems symposium Bamboo Project University libraries and presses ...5 weeks ago -
Digital Futures: From Digitization to Delivery: London, UK
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Start: 19/04/2010 End: 23/04/2010 Timezone: Europe/LondonBook early as places are limited and early bird discounts are available!http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/Led by international experts, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and ...5 weeks ago -
Digital Futures Academy: From Digitization to Delivery: Sydney, Australia
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Start: 01/02/2010 End: 05/02/2010 Timezone: Australia/SydneyBook early as places are limited and early bird discounts are available!http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/Led by international experts, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and ...5 weeks ago -
Report on digitizing British newspapers 1620-1900
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This JISC report describes all the stages and issues that occurred during a mass newspaper digitization project. The project digitized 192,000 issues and 1,157,349 pages and was a public/private partnership between Gale Cengage Learning, CCS and the British Library. An internal British Library department creates new ...5 weeks ago -
Cushing goes digital… and the Headmaster is compared to Hitler?
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Cushing Academy Headmaster Jim Tracy- does this look like a Nazi to you? This USA Today article describes the trials of a Massachusettes academy that has decided to switch to a digital library. Students will be able to use laptops or one of the 65 Kindles the school will circulate to read texts. ...5 weeks ago -
Digital Library Landscape
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What is the role of libraries in today’s world? Vital or irrelevant? These were the questions OCLC’s Roy Tennant attempted to answer. His major theme was that to survive in the digital library landscape, libraries must solve the problems their users have (and, I would presume, those who provide funding even if ...5 weeks ago -
An obsessive day hunting William Bush son of Catherine Franck
Curious.Judith —
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I started out this morning on a small task for my mother, one i’ve not completed, which was looking up the Family Tree DNA testing for my grandfather ($169 for Y-DNA37 or $119 for Y-DNA12). This reminded me that i needed to follow up on a discrepancy in the genetic genealogy on my paternal line. We’re part of ...5 weeks ago
