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New European Project Will Digitize Up to 650 Hours of World War I Film Footage
From europeana: Films about World War 1 that have never been seen outside a cinema or on television are to be made available on the internet for the first time ever. The European Film Gateway 1914...
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New Digital Resource From Carnegie Library: Pittsburgh Iron and Steel...
From The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has opened a digital archive that will let Internet users worldwide view more than a half million pages of historical documents...
View ArticleA Roundup of R.M.S. Titanic Resources
New on Search Engine Land (where I’m a contributing editor) is a post listing a bunch of Titanic-related resources (databases, video, images, etc.). As you know, Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of...
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Web Preservation: UK Web Archive Improves Full Text Search Filters
From a UK Web Archive Blog Post: Search results are now grouped by domain, making it easier to immediately see which websites contain references to the search term(s) and easily identifying the context...
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Track New and Updated Content as It’s Added to Europeana
This page (an RSS feed is also available) will alert you to new and updated items as they’re are added to the Europeana database. You’ll also be alerted to new collections. Each entry includes a direct...
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New Advanced Options Added to HathiTrust’s Full Text Search
Some Advanced Search options were added to HathiTrust Full Text Search in February. From the the MLibrary (University of Michigan) Blog for Library Technology. Advanced search allows users to combine...
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National Library of Australia’s Trove Database Releases API
One of the most impressive resources out there is Trove from the National Library of Australia. Trove allows users to search multiple online databases simultaneously and easily. Plus, its design,...
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Science: The Royal Society Introduces Online Picture Library (Free)
From an Introductory Blog Post: We are excited to announce the launch of our brand new online picture library containing digital images of paintings, photographs, drawings and prints held in our...
View ArticleCollections Trust Secures €8m Investment to Bring Collections Online
From a CT News Release: The Collections Trust has secured major European Commission investment in projects worth a total of €8m to help museums, archives and libraries share their collections online...
View ArticleUnique Seashell Reference Collection Digitized by U. of Hawaii Museum...
From the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa: The University of Hawaiʻi Museum Consortium has completed the digitization of a unique natural science specimen collection from UH Mānoa’s Anthropology...
View ArticleUniversity of the Pacific Library Receives GRAMMY Foundation Grant to...
From a U. of the Pacific Announcement: Dave Brubeck’s legacy will continue to grow thanks to digital technology and the efforts of the Special Collections staff at the University of the Pacific...
View ArticleNew Digital Collection of Historic Sound Recordings (Speeches, Debates,...
From Pepperdine University Libraries: Pepperdine University Libraries is pleased to announce the release of our latest digital collection. The Historic Sound Recordings collection features streaming...
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Serial Solutions Will Make Europeana and European Library Material...
From the Serial Solutions Web Site: In cooperation with the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), the Summon Web-scale Discovery service from Serials Solutions will make the vast...
View ArticleEinstein Archives Website Received Nearly 1 Million Unique Visitors in its...
From The Hebrew University in Jerusalem: In the month following its launch, the updated and expanded Einstein Archives website recorded tens of millions of hits and was visited by nearly 1 million...
View ArticleThe New York City Department of Records Launches Database Containing More...
From the AP: The city Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database Tuesday. A previously unpublicized link to the images has been live for about two weeks. Culled from the...
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New York Public Library Launches John Cage Digital Archive
From SSG Music: The New York Public Library has launched a John Cage digital archive project, John Cage Unbound: A Living Archive. On the archive, Cage fans can celebrate Cage’s centennial curated...
View ArticleMore Tennessee Newspapers Available Online through ‘Chronicling America’ Project
From the Tennessee Secretary of State: Thanks to a recent partnership with the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Tennessee, dozens of Tennessee...
View ArticleCanada: Edmonton City Archives Go Virtual
From The Edmonton Journal: The City of Edmonton Archives is going virtual with its first online exhibit profiling Edmonton author, artist and archive-advocate Ella May Walker. [Clip] The city’s move...
View ArticleVanderbilt Digital Archive Recovers Lost Civil Rights Voices, Digitized...
From Vanderbilt University Digitized versions of the original reel-to-reel recordings that author Robert Penn Warren conducted with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and other key leaders in the U.S....
View ArticleRare, Once-Lost Pioneer Chinese Immigrant Docs Go Online
From Oregon Public Radio: Rare, once-lost historic records about pioneer Chinese immigrants to the Northwest have found a new life online. The digital archive is hosted by Oregon State University. A...
View ArticleMusic: John Peel’s Record Collection Launches Online Tomorrow (Tuesday)
UPDATE: The site is now live. Video Introduction Direct to Site The digitized collection of the legendary BBC disc jockey and journalist goes live tomorrow (Tuesday). Learn more about John Peel. From...
View ArticleLaw Firm Makes All of Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy Documents, Including...
Details and a couple of highlights via DealBreaker and Business Insider. Documents Available here (Browse Only) We’re not sure how many of the docs have been crawled by Google at this time. However, by...
View Article“A Peek Inside USDA’s Massive Digital Library Project”
From FierceGovernmentIT: Two and half years ago the Agriculture Department started work on a project it hopes will combine 10 databases of reference material, creating integrated search and alerts for...
View ArticleEBSCO Discovery Service Adds the Complete Harvard Library Bibliographic...
The Harvard Library dataset was released on April 24th. Here’s our post and links to resources. Now, today’s news from EBSCO: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset contains 12 million open-access...
View ArticleA New Collection of Digitized Historical Films from the National Library of...
From the NLM News Release: The National Library of Medicine has produced a new digital collection, Tropical Disease Motion Pictures. The collection comprises 46 titles from the Library’s collections...
View ArticleBritish Council Releases New Online Archive Containing 120 Digitized...
From a British Council Announcement: Over 120 films providing fascinating snapshots of the UK’s cultural, sporting, industrial and political heritage have been launched online to the public thanks to...
View ArticleToronto Star Releases Digital Archive of Articles Written by Ernest Hemingway...
Ernest Hemingway was a columnist for the Toronto Star from 1920-1924 where he wrote 191 stories. More than 70 of them are currently accessible via the digital archive (free). A newsprint version of the...
View ArticleDigital Libraries: New Promo Video About Europeana from European Commission
The European Commission (via EC Audiovisual Services) has released a new video report/promo about Europeana. It focuses on several roadshows where EC residents can share materials and stories for...
View ArticleEBSCO Releases Two New Digital Archive Databases from Collections at the...
From the EBSCO Announcement: Gateway to America: The People, Places, and Organizations of 19th Century New York and Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books archive databases from the New-York Historical...
View ArticleU.S. History: William Clark Papers Collection Added to Kansas Historical...
From the KHS (PDF): The William Clark Papers Collection was recently added to Kansas Memory, the Kansas Historical Society’s online archives of documents, books, and photos. Clark, along with...
View ArticleUMass Digitizes Old Portuguese-American Newspapers
From South Coast Today: The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at the Claire T. Carney Library and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture of the UMass Dartmouth announce the addition...
View ArticleHistory: New Digital Archive Marks 75 Anniversary of Child Refugees Coming to UK
From the University of Warwick: Archives of material about child refugees evacuated to the UK to escape the Spanish Civil War 75 years ago have gone online at the University of Warwick, as part of the...
View ArticleA New Web Page Loaded With HathiTrust Instructional Materials Now Available
Heather Christenson from the California Digital Library Blogs: The HathiTrust Communications Working Group has just announced a new HathiTrust Resources and Guides Web page. Here you can find...
View ArticleNew Resource: Library and Archives Canada Launches Portraits Portal
From LAC: Today, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) launches its online Portrait Portal, making available more than nearly 15,000 high-quality digitized images from the national portrait collection....
View ArticleCosta Rica’s National Printing Office Unveils New Digital Library
From the Costa Rica Star: Thanks to an initiative by the National Printing Office, public school students in Costa Rica will soon be able to access all their mandatory reading assignments online. The...
View ArticlePrinceton University: The Daily Princetononian Newspaper Digitization Project...
From the Mudd Manuscript Library Blog: The Princeton University Archives, working in conjunction with the Princeton University Library Digital Initiatives, has nearly completed a monumental project...
View ArticleUniversity of Illinois Library: Addition of Historic Agriculture Newspaper to...
From the U of I Library: A gift from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumna, M. Christine Wicklein Schwartz, through the T & C Schwartz Family Foundation, has made it possible to...
View ArticleNew Resource: National Postal Museum Announces Launch of Centralized Gateway...
From the Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum announces the launch of the Global Philatelic Library website, a centralized information gateway to the world’s greatest...
View ArticleHistoric Photography Project Dusted Off And Digitized By The NYPL
From Gothamist: Recently the New York Public Library released over 40,000 images digitally from the Great Depression, including some shot in New York City, and over 1,000 that have not been published...
View ArticleAll Media and Materials from DPLA West Event Now Available Online
The two day event took place on April 26, 2012 (workstream meetings at SFPL) and public plenary April 27, 2012 (at Internet Archive). All materials are linked on the DPLA Blog. What’s Available:...
View ArticleReference: National Archives (UK) and Wikimedia UK Make Digitized World War...
Historic digitized art is being made available through a partnership between the National Archives (UK) and Wikimedia UK. The content is public domain. From Today’s Announcement: Hundreds of original...
View ArticleGale Launches New Database Suite: National Geographic Virtual Library
From Gale: Gale and the National Geographic Society, one of the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, today announced an extended agreement to create additional library...
View ArticleReference: Britain from Above Launches, A Collection of 16,000 Historical...
Images were taken between 1919-1953 From The Telegraph: More than 15,000 images from one of the earliest and most significant collections of aerial photography of Britain are now freely accessible...
View ArticleNew “Themed” Digital Collection from Calisphere: The Letters of John Muir
New from Calisphere, a resource that provides direct access to primary resources. Powered by California Digital Library. The Letters of John Muir: Themed Collection The images in this topic are scanned...
View ArticleUSC Shoah Foundation Completes Preservation/Digitization of Nearly 52,000...
From the USC Shoah Foundation (via PR Newswire): The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has completed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project to digitally preserve the video interviews in its Visual...
View ArticleReligion: Millions of LDS Documents, Images Now Online
From an Article in The Deseret News: Millions of documents and images in the extensive archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are now more accessible to anyone with a computer and...
View ArticleDigitization and Preservation of Newspaper Collections Are Focus of Latest...
The May 2012 Issue of International Preservation News (No. 56) was made available online (via IFLA) a couple of days ago. The full text is available as a PDF file. It runs 40 pages. The issue features...
View ArticleAssessment Leads to Strategic New Directions for OAC (Online Archive of...
From the California Digital Library: The CDL has recently completed a multi-faceted assessment of the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere, in order to plan for the continued development...
View ArticleDPLA Announces Inaugural Board of Directors
From a DPLA Announcement: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of five members to the inaugural DPLA Board of Directors. The inaugural...
View ArticleBegins Today: A HathiTrust and DPLA Partnership
From the DPLA Blog: The HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with the recently launched Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust’s public domain and other...
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