(23 October 2014) The Biodiversity Heritage Library,BHL, has welcomed the National Library Board, Singapore as a new member in BHL Central and simultaneously as BHL-Singapore, the newest node in Global BHL. The 16th member of the BHL Central consortium, BHL Singapore will help identify and digitize historical science literature from its collections and add these…
The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme is accepting applications for the next round of funding – find out here how to apply. Grants may be awarded to individual researchers to identify collections that can be preserved for fruitful use. The original archives and the master digital copies will be transferred to a safe archival home in…
(1 October 2014) The award aims to facilitate the most innovative and intellectually stimulating projects in the field. Winners will receive five years’ free access to Shared Shelf, Artstor’s digital media management software, to upload, catalog, manage, store, and share their project. The deadline is 15 October 2014. Winners will be announced in early December. Visit…
(26 September 2014) The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center has announced the release of its Tibetan eText Repository on tbrc.org. The eText repository is a collaborative effort between TBRC and many publishers, authors and institutions to archive and make available a large corpus of searchable Tibetan texts. Since it’s inception, TBRC has endeavored to make Tibetan literature of…
(22 September 2014) Digitization guidelines have proliferated in many forms over the last fifteen years, and all of them reflect a set of best practices that continues to evolve. These guidelines, published by IFLA, attempt to complement this body of knowledge by addressing the specific needs related to planning digitization projects for rare and special…
(18 September 2014) The 4C project will give a workshop at this year’s iPRES in Melbourne with focus on the recently published draft 4C Roadmap. The workshop will take place on Monday, 6 October, 9:00 – 13:00 at the Conference Centre of the State Library of Victoria, and is an opportunity for participants to learn more about…
(16 September 2014) Released today by CSIRO, an analysis of Australia’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums (or GLAM industry) has revealed that digital innovation in the sector is inconsistent and isolated. The report provides a roadmap for the industry in order for it to maximise the potential of the digital economy. With Australia’s rapid uptake…
Digitisation of ASEAN library collections (28 July 2014) The special topic of this newsletter of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania is services for the handicapped. It includes papers from China, Japan and Korea. The table of contents with links to full text articles is here. Also in this issue…
(21 July 2014) The Succeed project has recently launched two new resources for the promotion of state-of-the-art tools for text digitisation. An overview on available tools: http://succeed-project.eu/publications/available-tools. This overview contains over 200 different tools with a search engine capable to filter by group, language, type, etc. It has also a login system that allows anyone to…
(17 July 2014) Over seven years, BRAC University in Bangladesh carried out a number of projects focused on making significant improvements to university library. These improvements included: developing an institutional repository; an integrated library system and a library resource portal. Through these projects, the BRAC University library aimed to develop a 21st Century world-class knowledge…
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