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May 12, 2006LOC Announces Complete Digitization of News Photo Collection
The Library of Congress has announced that all the negatives in the George Grantham Bain news photograph collection (about 40,000 glass negatives) have been digitized and are available in the LOC's Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. You can start at...
Continue reading "LOC Announces Complete Digitization of News Photo Collection" » March 09, 2006Most Excellent! It's an Archive Grid
RedLightGreen has started an excellent site called ArchiveGrid, to aggregate information about collections in archives, museums, etc. It's free through May 31, and will stay free longer if RLG can get additional grants or funding. You can try it at...
December 13, 2004New Blog for Archivists
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 managers and other professionals. The point of DRIZZLE is not...
December 11, 2004New Blog On Digitization Issues
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....
July 12, 2004LOC Adds Over 10,000 Records, Images to Prints and Photographs Catalog
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 the G. Eric and Edith Matson Negatives, which include historical...
Continue reading "LOC Adds Over 10,000 Records, Images to Prints and Photographs Catalog" » June 30, 2004Virginia Tech Imagebase Offers Images In A Variety of Categories
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 Tech University Relations Slide Collection . Most of the collections...
Continue reading "Virginia Tech Imagebase Offers Images In A Variety of Categories" » April 26, 2004Library of Congress Updates Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
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. New materials include 5,100 photographs from the National Child Labor...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Updates Prints and Photographs Online Catalog" » March 09, 2004Library of Congress has Audio/Video Portal on Tap
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 Image Collections will serve as a metadatabase of ?what?s out...
Continue reading "Library of Congress has Audio/Video Portal on Tap" » February 05, 2004LOC Hears America Singing
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 it at http://www.loc.gov/ihas/ . The site was developed to integrate...
January 26, 2004Morbus Iff Launches LibDB Media Cataloging Project
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 system based on and inspired by the Functional Requirements for...
Continue reading "Morbus Iff Launches LibDB Media Cataloging Project" » January 22, 2004Extreeeeeeme ISBNs! OCLC and xISBN
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 http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/xisbn/ . Actually the link for the xISBN looks like...
November 28, 2003Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books Online
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. Most of the books are available only from computers on...
Continue reading "Digital Library Project Publishes UC Books Online" » October 15, 2002LOC Adds Three New Exhibits
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/ . There are about 15,000 pages here covering the travels of...
October 14, 2002The New York Public Library Picture Collection
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 search on the front page. An advanced search allows you...
Continue reading "The New York Public Library Picture Collection" » May 08, 2002American Memory at LOC Adds Two New Collections
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 3800 photographs from a four-month study of occupational culture in...
Continue reading "American Memory at LOC Adds Two New Collections" » December 05, 2001UVA Library to Create American Studies E-Community
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 anyone interested in the history, literature and culture background of...
Continue reading "UVA Library to Create American Studies E-Community" » November 19, 2001Frederick Douglass Papers Released By LOC
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 other items. The collection may be searched by keyword or...
Continue reading "Frederick Douglass Papers Released By LOC" » May 22, 2001LOC Adds Two New Collections
The 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 of Duke University. The North American Indian collection is available...
May 15, 2001LOC Releases Irving Fine Collection
The 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 over 4300 items, including printed music, sketchbooks, writings, personal and...
March 21, 2001LOC Adds The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1900
The 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 first-person narratives, early histories, and other information relating to the...
February 28, 2001American Memory Adds More Collections
Those 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 7,949 publicity brochures and promotional materials for over 4,500 events...
February 08, 2001Free Library of Philadelphia Creates Online Centennial Exhibition
The 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 collection is available at http://libwww.library .phila.gov/CenCol/index.htm . In addition to...
Continue reading "Free Library of Philadelphia Creates Online Centennial Exhibition" » November 09, 2000Presidential Inauguration Collection Now at LOC
Forget 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 four hundred items from each of sixty-two inaugurations (from George...
Continue reading "Presidential Inauguration Collection Now at LOC" » September 04, 2000LOC Adds WPA Posters to Collection
The 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 the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943," contains 907 of...
February 29, 2000The Abraham Lincoln Papers at LOC
When 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 at the LOC: http://memory.loc.gov/ ammem/alhtml/malhome.html . This is the first...
February 24, 2000Leonard Bernstein Collection Announced
The 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 selection of 85 photographs and over 1,100 pieces of correspondence....
December 23, 1999New LOC Announcement
LOC the halls with new collections, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la -oh, forget it. Anyway, the LOC has announced "Meeting of Frontiers" at http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfsplash.html (the site is available in English and Russian, and there's a gateway to both languages from this page.) Meeting...
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