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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.   |
Searcher
May 2002
David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here... |
D-Lib
June 2008
Susan Schreibman |
D-Lib Featured Collection May/June 2008: University of Maryland Libraries Digital Collections In November 2007 University of Maryland Libraries announced its digital collections portal. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Peter Kosewski |
Digital Technology Opens Harvard's Library Collections to the World Visitors to the Harvard Libraries web site can find and use thousands of individual digital materials from the Harvard collections. |
D-Lib
October 2006
Judith M. Panitch |
Digital Collections at the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is aggressively expanding its digital library program. |
D-Lib
March 2003
Ian H. Witten |
Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone The Greenstone Digital Library Software provides a way of building and distributing digital library collections, opening up new possibilities for organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on CD-ROM. |
D-Lib
April 2007
Melissa McLimans |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2007: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center has added over a thousand audio files, nearly a thousand books, and dozens of videos over the past year, totaling over 320,000 new digital objects. |
D-Lib
October 2007
Ann Lally |
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections Materials in the University's Digital Collections are diverse and reflect the strength of the UW Libraries collections. Particularly noteworthy collections include: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Database... etc. |
D-Lib
November 2005
Ed Galloway |
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections is part of the Historic Pittsburgh web site hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library (DRL). |
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. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Betsy Kruger |
Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The largest publicly funded university library in the country has long been engaged in state, national, and international efforts to make its resources accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. |
Information Today
October 22, 2007 |
OCLC Enhances CONTENTdm Online Computer Library Center has added new features and functionality to CONTENTdm to make it easy for libraries to manage and access documents in PDF and integrate digital collection growth into their current catalog. |
D-Lib
January 2006
Martin Kalfatovic |
Galaxy of Knowledge: Art & Design Galaxy of Knowledge, is Smithsonian Institution Libraries' portal to its collections and to a wide array of exceptional Internet resources. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2004
David Mattison |
Looking for Good Art Part 3: Glorious National Collections With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Here links to directories and guides. |
D-Lib
October 2001
Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
Information Today
April 7, 2011 |
Alexander Street Press Announces Video Publishing Plan for 2011 Already the publisher of 10 distinct, discipline-specific streaming video collections containing more than 8,000 films, Alexander Street intends to expand its offerings rapidly -- to more than 10,000 titles in 2011 and to 20,000 by 2013 |
Information Today
February 7, 2013
Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access. |
Information Today
June 4, 2012 |
EBSCO to Distribute AP Images Collection to Libraries EBSCO has been named the sole library distributor of the AP Images, the commercial photo unit of AP. It is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. |
D-Lib
June 2005
Michalak, Madsen & Hurst |
The Open Collections Program Harvard resources that are digitized using the program are organized by topic, enabling interested people worldwide to easily access relevant information. |
D-Lib
October 2001
Ian H. Witten |
Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software The Greenstone digital library software is an open-source system for the construction and presentation of information collections. It builds collections with effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009
Gretchen Gueguen |
Joyner Library Digital Collections The Joyner Library Digital Collections home page maximizes browsing potential, offers selected featured items, a small subject cloud, and links to each collection, as well as provides a basic repository keyword search. |
Searcher
September 2004
Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
Information Today
June 25, 2013 |
Gale Debuts Four Archives for 19th-Century Research Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Gale's worldwide, multiyear digitization program, offers rare 19th-century primary sources such as newspapers, maps, and photographs from more than 80 institutions around the world. |
Information Today
June 30, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing announced that it has partnered with the American Theological Library Association to create digital archive collections of historical monographs and serials for purchase by libraries and other institutions. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Terri Geitgey |
Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region More than 110,000 records and 6,000 images populate the twelve collections composing the project. The collections are listed and briefly summarized. |
D-Lib
November 2000 |
In Brief Managing Access to Grey Literature Collections... UK Government commits to getting online... Building an Audio-visual Digital Library of Historical Documentaries... High-Level Thesaurus Project... The Program for Cooperative Cataloging Task Force on Multiple Manifestations of Electronic Resources... etc. |
Information Today
June 28, 2012
Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries. |
D-Lib
May 2006
Mankita, Meltzer & Harris |
A Handful of Things: Calisphere's Themed Collections from the California Digital Library The University of California, California Digital Library is developing and implementing strategies that will modify its university- and research-oriented digital collections to make them available to non-university audiences in an attractive and usable format. |
Information Today
July 27, 2009 |
New OCLC Gateway Service Increases Web Visibility of Digital Collections The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway offers libraries a self-service tool to easily upload metadata from their unique digital content to WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding items held in libraries. |
Information Today
June 12, 2014 |
Alexander Street Press Debuts New Collections Alexander Street Press introduced new online academic collections for international business, human resource management, counseling and therapy, and Asian film studies. |
D-Lib
December 2004
Bonita Wilson |
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 The Library of Congress' By the People, For the People website offers much more than a collection of poster images. It sets the collection within a historical context, describing the purposes, processes, outcomes and legacy of the Federal Arts Project. |
D-Lib
June 2005
Neil Beagrie |
Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections Private digital collections will lead to a wide variety of services, allowing for security, information management, and publishing. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet. |
Information Today
January 26, 2012 |
Gale Outlines First Archives for Nineteenth Century Collections Online Gale announced the source libraries, collections, and plans for the first four modules of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, its global digitization and publishing program that brings together rare 19th-century primary source content. |
D-Lib
September 2001 |
In Brief HERON: Project into Service... CNRI Explores Maintenance of and Long-term Access to Computer Science Collections... LEAF - Linking and Exploring Authority Files... TermMaster: Software for Creating and Maintaining Thesauri and Ontologies... etc. |
D-Lib
September 2005
Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Leta hendricks |
Historic Costume and Textiles Collection The Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection (HC&TC) is a scholarly and artistic resource of apparel and textile material culture for the Columbus academic, art, business, and cultural communities. |
D-Lib
September 2000
Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs. |
Information Today
August 4, 2008 |
OCLC Offers Web Harvester for CONTENTdm OCLC is now offering Web Harvester, a new product that allows libraries and other cultural heritage institutions to capture and add web content to their digital collections |
D-Lib
November 2000
Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure... |
D-Lib
November 2006
Michael Foight |
D-Lib Featured Collection: November Digital Library @ Villanova University The Digital Library at Villanova University is an ambitious new collection of digital resources, created both to broaden access and to preserve materials for future generations. |
D-Lib
April 2004 |
In Brief Open GIS Consortium Online Standards Testing... The Xgrain II Project... DigiStates... In the News... etc. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2011
Neatrour et al. |
Automating the Production of Map Interfaces for Digital Collections Using Google APIs Many digital libraries are interested in taking advantage of the GIS mapping capabilities provided by Google Maps and Google Earth. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Branin et al. |
In Brief LIS Editors Launch Effort to Develop Best Practices for LIS Journals... Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service... etc. |
Information Today
June 27, 2013 |
Springer Introduces French and Italian Ebook Collections There are about 330 ebooks in the three French collections and more than 400 titles in the two Italian collections, all published in 2005 or later. |
D-Lib
February 2001
Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one... |
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. |
Information Today
May 13, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces Civil War Primary Source Documents Drawn from the holdings of the New-York Historical Society, the collection captures various accounts of the Civil War as it was experienced on land and sea. |
