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Kudos for Print Archiving | Editorial

Collaboration among libraries has been a grand tradition, but the need to collaborate has, perhaps, never been more pressing than now. There are numerous examples of exciting and innovative experiments...

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DCWG Shifts Focus as Ebook Landscape Evolves | ALA 2013

All of the Big Six publishers are now working with libraries on ebook lending in some capacity, but pricing and licensing terms remain unfavorable in many cases, Saturday’s “ALA, Ebooks, and Digital...

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South Carolina State Library Launches Social Media Library and Archive

The South Carolina State Library (SCSL) has launched the South Carolina State Agency Social Media Library, a new project that will archive all tweets, Facebook posts, and YouTube content generated by...

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Fondulac District Library, Operation Photo Rescue Partner to Save Community’s...

With the help of Operation Photo Rescue, a non-profit, volunteer network of photographers, image restoration artists, and graphic designers, Fondulac District Library (FDL), IL, recently launched...

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American Museum of Natural History Launches Free Online Image Database

Dimock, Julian A. “Three Seminole girls, The Everglades, Florida, 1907.” from the AMNH Digital Special Collections The American Museum of Natural History’s (AMNH) research library last month hosted the...

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Smithsonian, Swiss Village Farm Foundation Partner on Livestock DNA Library

Cryogenically freezing the DNA of livestock animals might sound like a science fiction twist to Noah’s Ark, yet it’s the mission of a newly forged partnership called The Smithsonian and Swiss Village...

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T160k Crowdfunds to Help Librarians Catalog Medieval Manuscripts from Timbuktu

Social Purpose Corporation T160k recently launched “Cataloging the Timbuktu Libraries,” a crowdfunding effort to help train local staff in Mali and help librarians in Timbuktu’s Mamma Haidara...

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Lazarus Project Brings Damaged Texts Back to Life

The Vercelli Book, the oldest manuscript of Old English in existence, imaged by the Lazarus Project at Archivio Capitolare in Vercelli, Italy Many libraries, archives, and museums have in their...

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VHS Copyright and Due Diligence | Field Reports

In the mid-1970s, the advent of the VHS format revolutionized the ability of libraries to collect and loan film. Now, collections developed during the 25-plus years of the format’s dominance present an...

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Navajo Nation Library To Digitize 1960s Oral History Archive

Sample tape from NNL oral history collection Photo credit: Irving Nelson The Navajo Nation Library (NNL) is working to secure the funding necessary to digitize and catalog thousands of hours of...

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