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Information Today March 20, 2008 |
Chronicling America Site Adds Content and Features More than 79,000 newly digitized newspaper pages, along with several new site features, have recently been added to the Chronicling America website.  |
D-Lib March 2003 Arlitsch et al. |
The Utah Digital Newspapers Project This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a partnership between the University of Utah and two commercial organizations.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Donnie Summerlin |
Selecting Newspaper Titles for Digitization at the Digital Library of Georgia This case study examines the Digital Library of Georgia's newspaper digitization selection process and how it incorporates national standards with its own project-specific criteria.  |
Information Today September 15, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive.  |
Information Today November 28, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google.  |
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive.  |
Information Today May 28, 2002 Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives.  |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.  |
D-Lib February 2008 Edwin Klijn |
The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective The market and technology adjust to accommodate the trend of newspaper collection digitization by libraries.  |
D-Lib May 2006 Justin Littman |
A Technical Approach and Distributed Model for Validation of Digital Objects This article describes the current technical approach for digital object validation used by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the digitization of historical newspapers.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2015 |
In Brief and In the News The PERICLES Extraction Tool: Significant Environment Information Collection to Support Object Reuse... Jisc Digital Media Supporting Digitization Projects... The Avalon Media System...  |
Information Today August 2009 Barbara Quint |
Feature: Where Have All the Archives Gone? What are libraries getting for their precious and shrinking institutional dollars? The most interesting factor is what they are not getting, and all too often, that is a complete archive of online publications, including newspapers.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc.  |
Information Today November 3, 2015 |
NEH Contest Encourages Use of Open Data The National Endowment for the Humanities introduced the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Data Challenge, a contest inviting U.S. "hackers and data enthusiasts" to produce web-based tools, data visualizations.  |
Information Today September 18, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Full-Image Newspaper Collection Launches New Version... Readex Launches New Interface for Newspaper Collections... EOS International Adds FileTrail RFID Tracking...  |
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 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s.  |
D-Lib December 2007 Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study.  |
Information Today August 13, 2013 Barbara Quint |
A Digital Starting Point for Preserving News Many libraries and museums, historical societies, commercial publishers, and the like, have started taking responsibility for the digital archiving of newspapers and born-digital news sources.  |
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 January 22, 2007 |
Readex Adds More Historical Newspapers to Archive Readex, a division of NewsBank, announced that it will begin adding two new series of fully searchable newspapers to its ongoing America's Historical Newspapers archive.  |
D-Lib August 2007 Justin Littman |
Actualized Preservation Threats: Practical Lessons from Chronicling America The purpose of this article is to articulate some "lessons learned" about the long-term preservation of digital content, since during the development phase a number of preservation threats have been actualized.  |
Information Today September 5, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection.  |
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.  |
D-Lib April 2005 |
In Brief How Do Users Search? Examining User Behavior and Testing Innovative Possibilities within the CREE Project... Sakai Educational Partners Program... New FreePint Job Service for Information Professionals... etc.  |
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries?  |
D-Lib May 2003 Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history  |
D-Lib June 2005 |
In Brief MARC 21 will investigate the markup language used to create electronic catalog records... The NSF Workshop on Scientific Markup Language released its report... etc.  |
Information Today July 7, 2008 |
Readex Partners With CRL on World Newspaper Archive Readex, a division of NewsBank, Inc, and the Center for Research Libraries announced that they will create the world's largest, fully searchable digital archive of international newspapers.  |
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.  |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.  |
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.  |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2003 Larry Krumenaker |
Tribunes and Tribulation The Top 100 Newspaper Archives (or Lack Thereof) A look at the options available for searching archives of the most popular newspapers.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 |
In Brief and In the News Should there be a right to be forgotten?... Registration underway for Digital Library Federation's eResearch Network... The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange...  |
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.  |
D-Lib October 2006 |
In Brief Documenting Pitt: Historical Publications and Images of the University of Pittsburgh... A Survey to Answer the Question: Why Are We Still Using Hardcopy?... In the News... etc.  |
D-Lib September 2006 |
Clips & Pointers In Print... Point to Point... Calls for Participation... Goings On... Deadline Reminders...  |
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 April 2002 Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date...  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 |
In Brief and In the News President Obama Announces Open eBooks and ConnectED Library Challenge... IMLS announces public request for comment and webinar on broadband barriers... Julie Todaro Wins 2016-2017 ALA Presidency...  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Patriot Act in Libraries... Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers... The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources... etc.  |
D-Lib October 2000 James J. O'Donnell |
LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress It is the Library of Congress's fate to be a symbol as well as a library...  |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Extra, Extra: Google Goes to Print The online giant moves into newspaper advertising. This is a big deal for all involved. Google appears to have struck upon a win-win deal that will help traditional newspapers halt their declining ad revenues, while opening up yet another lucrative source of revenue for itself.  |
Information Today April 14, 2008 Kathy Dempsey |
The Library of Congress Delivers a Whole New Experience Digitizing archival treasures to allow wider access has become a major strategy in many organizations, and the venerable Library of Congress has just put itself at the forefront of that movement again.  |
Searcher May 2010 Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions.  |
Information Today June 3, 2014 |
ProQuest Gains Texas Newspaper Archive ProQuest added the digital archive of the daily Austin American-Statesman newspaper to its ProQuest Historical Newspapers collection.  |
Information Today April 23, 2015 |
NEH Provides Grant to Digitize Local Historical Artifacts Common Heritage will collect and digitize historical records and artifacts currently hidden in family homes across the country and make them publicly available.  |
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.  |
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.  |