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• Bookless Libraries Increase Accessibility

  
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  From the Article Carnegie Mellon has for years already been building its own “bookless library”: “For the nearly 15 years I’ve been in the Carnegie Mellon Libraries, we’ve been working hard to provide the campus with what I think is a very realistic view of the library of the future. We are working ...
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• Press Review: Google Book Search Revised Settlement Settlement (2.0) Released

  
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  We’re going to on the lookout for news, commentary from experts, and viewpoints from various organizations and companies involved in the GBS story. We’re only posting selected snippets with links to the full text. + Modifications to the Google Books Settlement (via Google Public Policy Blog, Dan Clancy) + ...
  2 days ago

• Digitized Historic Newspapers: Topic Guides for Chronicling America

  
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  The Chronicling America from the NEH and the Library of Congress is searchable database containing more than million digitized American newspapers pages (and growing) from 1880-1922. Guides cover topics “widely covered” in the American press of the time. As of today (11/13/2009), there are 21 guides available ...
  3 days ago

• Milestones: The British Library’s Digital Library Passes 500,000 Items

  
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  From the Announcement: The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Library System. The milestone item was a digitised copy of a newspaper originally published in 1864 and scanned as part of the Library’s 19th Century British Library Newspapers project, which recently made more than 2 ...
  3 days ago

• Update: NARA/Footnote Holocaust Collection of Digitized Records, Materials to Remain Free Through December 31st

  
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  At the end of September we posted an in-depth overview about a new collection of digitized Holocaust records from the National Archives (NARA) and Footnote. Our post said that at the end of October a sizable portion of the content would only be available to Footnote.com subscribers. Today, an update. All of the ...
  4 days ago

• Digital Archives: Siegfried Sassoon Collection Added to First World War Digital Poetry Archive

  
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  We first posted about The First World War Digital Poetry Archive from Oxford University in September. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research. The heart of the archive consists of collections of ...
  4 days ago

• A New Digital Collection: A Calm Voice in a Strident World: Senator J.W. Fulbright Speaks

  
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  This new digital collection comes from the University of Arkansas Libraries. From the About Page: For three decades following World War II, J.W. Fulbright represented Arkansas in the Congress of the United States. His single term in the House and four terms in the Senate saw Fulbright rise to become the ...
  5 days ago

• Princeton Theological Seminary Library Partnering with Internet Archive to Digitize Content

  
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  From the Web Site: The Princeton Seminary library is delighted to be working in partnership with the Internet Archive, a 501(c)3 organization in San Francisco, to digitize a selection of out-of-copyright books from its collections. Approximately 21,000 items have been scanned to date. These books include ...
  6 days ago

• Parties Involved Ask for a Brief Extension Before Google Book Search Settlement 2.0 Released

  
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  An new version of the Google Book Search settlement was expected to be released today. However, as the NY Times reports, those involved have asked for more time. As of today, “Settlement 2.0″ will be released this Friday. The parties to the Google book settlement, which would legalize the creation of a vast ...
  1 week ago

• An Interview with Project Gutenberg Founder Michael Hart

  
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  Andrea Kobeskzo recently interviewed Michael Hart and now you can read the Q & A interview on the Project Gutenberg News Portal. Here’s an interesting passage when Kobeskzo asks Hart about how Project Gutenberg has evolved over the years (PG began in 1971). Hart says: Believe it or not people were still ...
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• Open Book Alliance Releases Baseline Requirements for Revised Google Book Settlement Proposal

  
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  On Monday (November 9th), a revised proposed settlement (aka Settlement 2.0) from Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publisher will be released. The Open Book Alliance (OBA) has posted on its web site what they call “baseline requirements” for the Settlement 2.0. The Special Libraries ...
  1 week ago

• Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle Profiled in Forbes

  
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  Brewster Kahle has many titles. These days he’s best known as founder of the Internet Archive (home of The Wayback Machine) and founding member of the Open Content Alliance. From the Article: “We have to have universal access to everything, just like a library,” he says. “Do we want that under a ...
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• Bibliotheca Alexandrina: A Digital Revival

  
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  The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is one busy place. If you want to learn more read on through our highlights but make sure to read the complete article. Our highlights is just a sample of what’s going on. From the Article: The International School of Information Science (ISIS) a research institute affiliated ...
  1 week ago

• More Digitization Underway: This Time Footnote.com is Digitizing the U.S. Census from 1790-1930

  
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  Footnote.com is once again partnering the National Records and Administration Agency (NARA) to digitize massive amounts of content and then make that material available, often for a fee, available online. Footnote is becoming–and for some has already become–and important resource for historians, genealogists, ...
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• The Complete Archive of National Geographic Magazine on Six DVD’s

  
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  Every now and then a fee-based product comes around that we believe deserves your attention. The following is one of them. Chris Pendleton on the Bing Blog reminds us that a major digitization project, every issue ever published of National Geographic from 1887-2008, is now available (it was officially released ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cornell University Library Publishes New Digitization Manual

  
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  Our friends at TeleRead.org let us know about a new digitization manual from Cornell University Library. From the Announcement: “Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” a new book published today by Cornell University Library, can help ...
  2 weeks ago

• Real life risk assessment

  
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  In the new book on Copyright and Cultural Institutions , I argue that libraries, archives, and museums need to engage in informed risk assessment when approaching digitization projects.  This is especially true when it comes to sound recordings because the the legal status of sound recordings is a mess.  Peter ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Report: Digitisation of special collections: Mapping, assessment, prioritisation

  
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  From the Executive Summary: Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen as a priority they are not directly consulted about which collections they would like to have made available digitally or why. This can be seen in a wide range of policy documents throughout ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Library of Congress Unveils API for Chronicling America Digitized Newspaper Database

  
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  What follows is a post that might be of special interest to web developers, webmasters, site owners, or anyone who can work with an API (Application Programming Interface), It comes from a digitized collection of more than 1 million historic newspapers and a searchable directory of newspaper info. Even if you are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Book Alliance Co-Founder Peter Brantley Visits Spain to Talk About the Alliance and Google Book Search

  
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  Brantley is attending meetings in Spain and discussing the OBA and Google Book Search. He’s been interviewed by two newsapers, El Pais and Publico.es. Here are links to both interviews in Spanish along with mechanically generated translations from two services. 1) “Google no ve libros, se limita a ver datos” ...
  2 weeks ago

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