(24 Nov 2025) The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) publishes for the first time today: Charles Darwin’s personal Address Book. It offers an astonishingly personal glimpse into the life and work of the great scientist. In addition to scans of the entire notebook, Darwin’s hard-to-decipher handwriting has been expertly transcribed and meticulously edited. Hundreds…
(17 Oct 2025) Utaina, one of the largest audiovisual digitization projects in the world and the largest in New Zealand to date, has concluded. Over 400,000 items from the collections held by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa and Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o…
(11 Aug 2025) Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically significant government documents more accessible to the public. The documents date back to the early 1800s and include oral…
(11 Jul 2025) The Band Aid Trust kindly donated its full archive to the National Library of Ireland (NLI) in 2017. It includes documents, personal stories, correspondence with donors, governments and broadcasters, as well as artwork, sound recordings, and hundreds of personal letters. The archive reflects the scale and complexity of the effort behind Live Aid.…
(17 Jun 2025) In this interview, Tim St. Onge and Meagan Snow explain how web archiving is preserving documentation essential to understanding the evolution of modern cartography. They outline the motivations behind the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive, describe their curatorial approach, and highlight the collection’s value for both current and future researchers. This is part of a…
(24 May 2025) The Department of Science and Technology – Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) recently inaugurated its e-Library at Benguet State University in La Trinidad, Benguet, marking a landmark step in the digital transformation of the Institute’s extensive research archives. The launch of the e-Library is the culmination of the project titled “From…
(1 May 2025) Speaker Vijender Gupta is planning to transform the existing library of Delhi Legislative Assembly into a state-of-the-art e-Library through a structured process of digitization, upgrading IT infrastructure, and modern gadgets. The parliament secretariat has extended its support to assist in this digital transformation, said Delhi Legislative Assembly secretariat. The Times of…
(6 Feb 2025) Trove’s newspaper collection continues to grow every day. Trove Partners collaborate with Trove to digitise their collections and make them available online to all Australians. We spoke with 2 of our Trove Partners about their experience working with Trove to digitize some of their local newspapers. The partners are Merri-bek Libraries…
(22 Jan 2025) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (January 2025) has been published and is now available online. In this issue, SEALG Annual Meeting, Frankfurt am Main 2024 The Southeast Asia Digital Library: Collaboration as Sustainability Highlighting a Multi-faceted Adventurous Journey to South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Taiwan in 2023:…
(28 Nov 2024) An exhibition with the title “A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang” is currently on display at the British Library, London, until 23 February 2025. The oasis of Dunhuang, in today’s northwest China, was established in 111 BCE as a military outpost. It became a vital resting point for travellers due…