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• ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009, from a distance

  
  Curious.Judith — Authority: 110
  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” ...
  2 days ago

• Sorry, no copies available to request

  
  Feral Librarian — Authority: 99
  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) ...
  5 days ago

• Cornell University Library publishes new digitization manual

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• CNI Conversations Series Podcasts

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 481
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Digital Futures: From Digitization to Delivery: London, UK

  
  arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts - Engage with digital learning and research — Authority: 132
  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 ...
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• Digital Futures Academy: From Digitization to Delivery: Sydney, Australia

  
  arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts - Engage with digital learning and research — Authority: 132
  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 ...
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• Report on digitizing British newspapers 1620-1900

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Cushing goes digital… and the Headmaster is compared to Hitler?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  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. ...
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• Digital Library Landscape

  
  Infotoday Blog — Authority: 131
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• An obsessive day hunting William Bush son of Catherine Franck

  
  Curious.Judith — Authority: 110
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Bookserver

  
  Curious.Judith — Authority: 110
  This rave review from if:book and this more cautious notice from my colleague Roy Tennant in RLG programs both address the news from the Internet Archive about the Bookserver project. (I knew i had to decline the invitation for last night’s celebration, but i have a sense of wistful regret reading these posts.) ...
  2 weeks ago

• ICDL (International Conference on Digital Libraries) 2010

  
  arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts - Engage with digital learning and research — Authority: 132
  Start: 23/02/2010 End: 26/02/2010 Timezone: Etc/GMT+5TERI invites your attention to ICDL 2010, the third conference in the Institute’s ICDL(The International Conference on Digital Libraries) series. ICDL 2010 is proposed to be organized during 23-26 February 2010 in New Delhi. The theme of the conference is ...
  3 weeks ago

• EU Bookshop Digital Library goes live

  
  Welcome to Library.ie — Authority: 126
  12 million scanned pages in more than 110,000 EU publications are now available free of charge for download in the EU Bookshop Digital Library which was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16. The Digital Library contains all publications edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the EU institutions, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Harvard and National Library of China digitize books

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  The 51,500 volume Harvard-Yenching Library’s collection of Chinese rare books will be digitized in this collaboration, say the Harvard Gazette . The project will take 6 years to complete and will cover books from 960 AD to 1795. The imaging will be done by the staff of the Widener library and the article ...
  4 weeks ago

• Japans National Diet Library May Offer Fee-Based Digital Library

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 481
  Japans National Diet Library is evaluating the creation of a fee-based digital library containing digitized versions of works in its collection (Thanks to ResourceShelf). Read more about it at " National Diet Library, Others Envision Digital Database ." Related Posts National Diet Library to Digitize Around ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hadoop World 2009

  
  The Dumping Ground — Authority: 115
  I had the privilege of attending Hadoop World 2009 on Friday.  It was amazing to meet, listen to, and pick the brains of so many smart people.  The quantity of good work being done on this project is simply stunning, but it is equally stunning how much farther there remains to go.  Some interesting points for me ...
  5 weeks ago

• September/October 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine is out

  
  The Ten Thousand Year Blog — Authority:
  The September/October 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine is out. Among the articles are “Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR)” by Gail Steinhart and Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University; and Ann Green, Yale University“Subject-based Information ...
  7 weeks ago

• Google Books: Brave or Stupid?

  
  Feral Librarian — Authority: 99
  In Judging Google’s book strategy , Owen Scott provides a New Zealander’s take on Google Books , focusing on the fact that Google has taking the aggressive approach of acting first and asking forgiveness later. Although it is exactly this approach that has many Google critics crying foul, Scott notes that many ...
  7 weeks ago

• I2: Survey results

  
  ?????????? — Authority:
  I wrote in June that the I2 subgroup surveyed "repository managers to determine the current practices and needs of the repository community regarding institutional identifiers. Results from the survey will inform a set of use cases that will be shared with the community, and that are expected to drive the ...
  7 weeks ago

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