http://www.researchbuzz.org/ en-us tara@researchbuzz.com 2004-12-13T07:49:05-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/new_blog_for_archivists.html There'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... 2215@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-12-13T07:49:05-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/new_blog_on_digitization_issues.html Hat 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.... 2211@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-12-11T22:22:06-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/loc_adds_over_10000_records_images_to_prints_and_photographs_catalog_.html The 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... 1834@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-07-12T08:48:35-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/virginia_tech_imagebase_offers_images_in_a_variety_of_categories_.html When 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... 1803@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-06-30T11:19:09-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/library_of_congress_updates_prints_and_photographs_online_catalog.html Apparently 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.... 1629@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-04-26T08:34:41-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/library_of_congress_has_audiovideo_portal_on_tap.html Government 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... 1522@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-03-09T05:43:08-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/loc_hears_america_singing_.html The 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... 1446@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-02-05T01:52:40-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/morbus_iff_launches_libdb_media_cataloging_project_.html Morbus 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... 1422@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-01-26T11:34:05-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/extreeeeeeme_isbns_oclc_and_xisbn.html The 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... 1415@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2004-01-22T10:39:54-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/digital_library_project_publishes_uc_books_online.html The 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.... 1283@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2003-11-28T17:37:28-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/loc_adds_three_new_exhibits.html The 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/ .... 451@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2002-10-15T12:01:00-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/the_new_york_public_library_picture_collection.html The 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... 453@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2002-10-14T12:01:00-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/american_memory_at_loc_adds_two_new_collections.html The 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... 140@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2002-05-08T12:01:00-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/uva_library_to_create_american_studies_ecommunity.html The 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... 257@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2001-12-05T12:01:00-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/frederick_douglass_papers_released_by_loc.html The 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... 248@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Reference-Libraries-Collections 2001-11-19T12:01:00-05:00