(12 August 2013) The British Library and the Center for Research Libraries have formed a partnership to digitize and make accessible historical news content from Africa, South Asia, and Latin America of interest to scholars at UK and North American universities. This partnership will dramatically expand and enrich the digitized collections in the World Newspaper…
(4 August 2013) There’s not a lot of it left. So if just for the sake of nostalgia and the delight of social historians, news that the Government Records Service is preserving more than 8,000 pictures of old Hong Kong, some of which have already been uploaded to its website, will be thrilling. The collection…
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is has published the latest in its series of topical Technology Watch Reports, Preserving Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Writtenby Alex Ball, and published electronically, this report provides a comprehensive overview of the development of CAD technologies, the threat caused by its own innovative application and its vendors’ drive to add ever…
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is hiring a digital library developer who is confident working on multiple projects and rapidly adopting new technologies. Applicants should have experience of working with web applications and Ruby on Rails, Solr, JavaScript, or other digital library technologies would be an advantage. Salary is GBP32,469 –…
The Southeast Asia Library Group, SEALG, in its blog reminds its members that at the upcoming IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Singapore there will be a full day session dedicated to Asian collections. Session 95 “Rare and special collections in the Asian or Oceanian context — Rare Books and Manuscrips with Asia and Oceania”…
Duke University has received a grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to digitize and preserve a trove of ancient religious manuscripts related to Bon, the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet. The Menri Monstery in India’s Himachal Pradesh state owns the largest collection of Bon manuscripts in the world. Most were rescued from monasteries in…
The Digital Preservation Coalition has announced that presentations from the popular DPC / BLPAC Getting Started in Digital Preservation workshop in Aberystwyth, Wales, in June are now available online. To see these, as well as the presentations from similar events in Glasgow in April and London in May click here.
(24 May 2013) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released its latest in the series of topical Technology Watch Reports to the public today. ‘Web Archiving,’ by Maureen Pennock, presents a constructive study of the fast-paced digital age and the pressures we face in attempting to capture web based information for the future. Maureen’s report…
With a donation of HKD3 million from Dr Ko Pui-shuen, Chairman of Kingrich Asia Holdings Limited, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library has initiated two projects to enhance access to and use of the University Archives & Special Collections. The gallery will be named“Hong Kong Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce Ko Pui…
(3 May 2013, Chicago) As digital preservation becomes an increasingly widespread and accessible practice, smaller organizations as well as large can take steps toward developing strategies for implementing it in their own institutions. “Practical Digital Preservation: A How-to Guide for Organizations of Any Size,” published by ALA Neal-Schuman, offers clear methods and tools that require…
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