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December 13, 2004New Blog for ArchivistsThere's a new 'blog for archivists available at http://www.myunclesteve.com/drizzle. In his announcement, Steve Butzel describes the new 'blog thus: "DRIZZLE features news stories and commentary of interest to archivists, records...December 11, 2004New Blog On Digitization IssuesHat tip to Catalogablog for the pointer to digitizationblog, at http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/ . It's a blog about digitization for libraries and allied institutions. Not updated every day but good content here....Read the rest of entry "New Blog On Digitization Issues" here. July 12, 2004LOC Adds Over 10,000 Records, Images to Prints and Photographs CatalogThe Library of Congress added over 10,000 catalog records and images to its Prints and Photographs Online Catalog between April and June 2004. The materials include the first release of...June 30, 2004Virginia Tech Imagebase Offers Images In A Variety of CategoriesWhen you first visit the Virginia Tech Imagebase you'll be struck by the number of categories of images available. You'll be able to browse image collections from Agriculture to Virginia...Read the rest of entry "Virginia Tech Imagebase Offers Images In A Variety of Categories " here. April 26, 2004Library of Congress Updates Prints and Photographs Online CatalogApparently it's LOC day here at ResearchBuzz. Who knew? Anyway, the LOC has announced that their Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, at http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html , now has almost 1 million images....Read the rest of entry "Library of Congress Updates Prints and Photographs Online Catalog" here. March 09, 2004Library of Congress has Audio/Video Portal on TapGovernment Computer News is reporting ( http://gcn.com/23_5/tech-report/25133-1.html ) that the Library of Congress has plans for a portal pointing to audio and video collections worldwide. From the article: "The Moving...Read the rest of entry "Library of Congress has Audio/Video Portal on Tap" here. February 05, 2004LOC Hears America SingingThe Library of Congress has announced a new Web site, I Hear America Singing. And despite the fact that it's described as a portal I'll forgive it. You can get...January 26, 2004Morbus Iff Launches LibDB Media Cataloging ProjectMorbus Iff, he of AmphetaDesk and the amazin' lead author of Spidering Hacks has announced LibDB, which is as he describes it as "An open-sourced Perl/MySQL library and asset management...Read the rest of entry "Morbus Iff Launches LibDB Media Cataloging Project " here. January 22, 2004Extreeeeeeme ISBNs! OCLC and xISBNThe OCLC has a cool little project called xISBN. It lets you provide an ISBN and get a list of associated ISBNs (from reprints, other editions, etc.) It's available at...Read the rest of entry "Extreeeeeeme ISBNs! OCLC and xISBN" here. November 28, 2003Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books OnlineThe University of California has launched the eScholarship Editions collection, which represents about a third of the University of California Press books in print with an additional 300 out-of-print titles....Read the rest of entry "Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books Online" here. October 15, 2002LOC Adds Three New ExhibitsThe Library of Congress has added three new exhibits to their American Memory online collection. The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 is available at http://memory.loc.go v/ammem/award99/icuhtml/ ....October 14, 2002The New York Public Library Picture CollectionThe New York Public Library has a way cool picture collection available at http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/ . This site contains 30,000 digitized, public-domain images from books, magazines, postcards, etc. There's a quick...Read the rest of entry "The New York Public Library Picture Collection" here. May 08, 2002American Memory at LOC Adds Two New CollectionsThe Library of Congress has added two new collections to their site. Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting -- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/ . About 500 interview excerpts and about...Read the rest of entry "American Memory at LOC Adds Two New Collections" here. December 05, 2001UVA Library to Create American Studies E-CommunityThe University of Virginia Library has received a $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to develop an American Studies "information community." The research project will provide an electronic resource for...Read the rest of entry "UVA Library to Create American Studies E-Community" here. November 19, 2001Frederick Douglass Papers Released By LOCThe Library of Congress has announced the release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ . This collection contains approximately 2,000 items, including speeches, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, transcripts, and...Read the rest of entry "Frederick Douglass Papers Released By LOC" here. May 22, 2001LOC Adds Two New CollectionsThe Library of Congress has added two new collections. There's the The North American Indian: Photographic Images. There's also Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920: Selections from the Collections...May 15, 2001LOC Releases Irving Fine CollectionThe LOC has announced the Irving Fine collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ifhtml/ . Irving Fine was a composer, conductor, writer, and academic who lived from 1914 to 1962. The collection contains...Read the rest of entry "LOC Releases Irving Fine Collection" here. March 21, 2001LOC Adds The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1900The Library of Congress/American Memory has added The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1900 to their collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhcbhtml/ . This collection covers...February 28, 2001American Memory Adds More CollectionsThose cool folks at American Memory have added a couple of new exhibits to their site. first one is "Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century." This exhibit shows...Read the rest of entry "American Memory Adds More Collections" here. February 08, 2001Free Library of Philadelphia Creates Online Centennial ExhibitionThe Free Library of Philadelphia has created an online exhibit of over 1,200 photographs and other materials related to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 which took place in Philadelphia. The...Read the rest of entry "Free Library of Philadelphia Creates Online Centennial Exhibition" here. November 09, 2000Presidential Inauguration Collection Now at LOCForget about the current election and revisit happier times when the status of president-elect wasn't so much as issue. The LOC has a new online collection of materials containing approximately...Read the rest of entry "Presidential Inauguration Collection Now at LOC" here. September 04, 2000LOC Adds WPA Posters to CollectionThe Library of Congress has started a new American Memory collection of WPA posters at http://memory.loc. gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html . The collection, which has an official title of "By the People, For...Read the rest of entry "LOC Adds WPA Posters to Collection" here. February 29, 2000The Abraham Lincoln Papers at LOCWhen I mentioned the other LOC collection a couple days ago, a few people wrote in to let me know I missed one -- the new Abraham Lincoln Papers collection...Read the rest of entry "The Abraham Lincoln Papers at LOC" here. February 24, 2000Leonard Bernstein Collection AnnouncedThe Library of Congress has announced the online Leonard Bernstein Collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml /. Bernstein was a composer, conductor, writer, and teacher who died in 1990. The collection includes a...Read the rest of entry "Leonard Bernstein Collection Announced" here. December 23, 1999 |
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