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Information Today
November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.   |
Information Today
August 29, 2011 |
University of California Libraries Expand Access to Orphan Works They will join the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, and University of Florida in a groundbreaking initiative to identify and make available digital versions of orphan works within the holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library. |
Information Today
May 13, 2010 |
H.W. Wilson Retrospective Literature Databases Link to Full Text Books on HathiTrust HathiTrust is an inter-institutional repository of digitized books-more than 4.6 million volumes at present, about 15 percent of which are public domain works. |
Information Today
May 24, 2010 |
World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitized and are being made publicly accessible as part of a partnership between Google, the University of California and the UC San Diego Libraries. |
Information Today
October 23, 2008
Beth Ashmore |
HathiTrust: A Digital Repository for Libraries, by Libraries Long-term preservation is something libraries need, and it has been one of the concerns about Google as a digitization partner. These resources need to be, in the long term, managed by libraries. |
Information Today
April 7, 2011
Barbara Quint |
HathiTrust Discovers Serials Solutions' Summon and Vice Versa Sometime this summer, Summon will begin offering full-text access through its discovery service with content matched to individual library holdings. |
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. |
D-Lib
August 2007
Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis. |
Information Today
October 22, 2009
Barbara Quint |
HathiTrust Launching Full-Text Library of Books By mid-November, the HathiTrust Digital Library will have a full-featured, full-text search service for 4.3-5 million items. |
Information Today
June 18, 2012 |
New Collaboration Announced -- Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) GOKb will be an open, community-based, international data repository that will provide libraries with publication information about electronic resources. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
February 5, 2009
Barbara Quint |
OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? OCLC has announced a partnership that would ultimately transfer an open access icon, the University of Michigan Library's OAIster service, to OCLC. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project |
Information Today
May 12, 2015 |
Open Library of Humanities Gains Participants Three universities joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system: Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Exeter, and the University of Sussex. |
Information Today
February 7, 2008 |
Columbia University Collaborates With Microsoft on Digitization Project Columbia University and Microsoft are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and to make them available to internet users. |
Information Today
September 15, 2015 |
Innovative Lays Out Strategic Goals Innovative released a set of strategic goals for the following areas: library success, employee success, product leadership, and library partnership. |
Information Today
October 18, 2010 |
Full-Text Doctoral Dissertations on Middle East and Islamic Studies Available Free The British Library's partnership project with the Chicago-based Center for Research Libraries has now released digitized copies of 400 U.K. Ph.D. theses on Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
Mellon Foundation Grant for Digital Repository Economic Model Awarded to MIT Libraries The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has donated $215,000 to MIT to develop an economic model to maintain digital documents within an academic research library... |
D-Lib
April 2006
Bonita Wilson |
Change and the Need for Innovation Numerous challenges face libraries and other information organizations in this time of rapid change in both technology and culture. |
D-Lib
June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library? |
Information Today
August 19, 2010 |
EOS International Enters Digital Library Market The application and digital content may be stored on a local network server or accessed remotely from one of the company's global data centers. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training. |
Information Today
July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
Information Today
April 8, 2013 |
New York Public Library Announces Digital Collections API For the first time, significant portions of the library's digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: more than 1 million objects and records for anyone to search, crawl, and compute. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it. |
Information Today
February 24, 2011
Theresa Cramer |
New Study: Libraries Embrace Digital Content in Face of Budget Constraints At the very time that library budgets were being slashed, demand for the services provided by these institutions was increasing in the communities they served. Libraries have had to reprioritize and get creative with budgets. |
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
September 10, 2013 |
HathiTrust Records Go Live on the DPLA HathiTrust, which preserves freely available resources from universities and libraries, partnered with the Digital Public Library of America in June and will continue to host the content now searchable through the DPLA. |
Searcher
December 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Too Close for Comfort It's not just tough times that imperil traditional libraries. The economic crisis is speeding up the cascade of technological and societal tipping points, but those tipping points would happen regardless of the economy. |
Information Today
March 13, 2008 |
New York Public Library Unveils Transformation Plan The building will be renovated and two hub libraries will be built in northern Manhattan and Staten Island. |
Information Today
May 22, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search. |
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
April 18, 2013 |
New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries. |
ONLINE
Nov./Dec. 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009 |
In Brief Reflective learning for the net generation... The SKUA project: prototyping a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services... The Erewhon project: more comprehensive location-based services... etc. |
D-Lib
January 2000
David M. Levy |
Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose Which way ought we to go in digital library research and development?...I'll start by reviewing the problem of purpose in American public libraries and American academic/research libraries before turning to digital libraries... |
D-Lib
November 2000
Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders... |
Information Today
November 29, 2010 |
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
D-Lib
December 2005
Bonita Wilson |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide. |
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. |
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
January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections. |
Information Today
June 6, 2011 |
OCLC Web-scale Management Services on Target for July 1 Release In addition to the 32 committed libraries in the U.S., BIBSYS, the Norwegian library consortium signed an agreement with OCLC to base its new library management system on Web-scale Management Services, which will include management tools for more than 100 libraries in Norway. |
Information Today
May 23, 2011 |
National Library of France Embarks on Huge Digitization Project The BnF, the National Library of France, has signed a new deal with the Jouve-Safig-Diadeis partnership for the digitization of its print collections. |
Information Today
August 3, 2009 |
IMLS Preservation Grant Guidelines Available Bank of America is partnering with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to provide grants to small museums, libraries, and archives. |
Information Today
June 18, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Has a Busy Week In the first week of June, Google Book Search adds a 12-university consortium, and deals with stolen laptops and competitors. |
Information Today
June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
Information Today
June 4, 2012 |
Innovative Interfaces Launches Content Pro IRX Innovative Interfaces announced that development for its new institutional repository module, Content Pro IRX, is complete and several library partners will begin beta testing this month. |
