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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Pittsburgh has opened a digital archive that will let Internet users worldwide view more than a half million pages of historical documents...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...
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