December 2, 2023

Galway Daily: University of Galway creating digital archive of letters from Irish expats c.1675 – 1950

Galway Daily: University of Galway creating digital archive of letters from Irish expats c.1675 – 1950 . “The University of Galway has received funding to create a digital archive of letters from Irish expats in America over three centuries…. This funding will enable the development of an archival site which will provide the public with remote access to letters sent home to Ireland from America between 1675 and 1950 and more.”

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December 1, 2023

Peninsula Daily News: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe gets grant to digitize collections

Peninsula Daily News: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe gets grant to digitize collections. “The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe has received a $14,536 grant from the Office of the Secretary of State to find previously undigitized items from their collections, digitize them and add them to The House of Seven Generations Online Museum. The Washington Digital Heritage grant is among the 13 given local libraries in 2023. A total of $152,476 was awarded by the Office of the Secretary of State, which oversees the Washington State Library and the Washington State Archives, announced in late September.”

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November 20, 2023

From Ringo to Robbie: Nairn photographer’s 50 years capturing music legends (Press & Journal)

Press & Journal: From Ringo to Robbie: Nairn photographer’s 50 years capturing music legends. “The Marnie Archives are the work of a man who has been completely uncompromising in his choice of life path, sacrificing financial security, relationships and even home life for his craft…. Marc’s vast archive was nearly lost when the basement where they were stored was flooded. Now he’s trying to preserve the prints by digitising them for posterity. He reckons 90% of them have never yet been seen.”

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November 19, 2023

The Hindu: Servants of Knowledge to digitally archive Motilal Banarsidass’ out-of-copyright books

The Hindu: Servants of Knowledge to digitally archive Motilal Banarsidass’ out-of-copyright books. “Servants of Knowledge and Public Resource… are set to take up digital archiving of some of the publications of Motilal Banarsidass, a 120-year-old Delhi-based publisher. Motilal Banarsidass recently arrived at an agreement with Public Resource and Servants of Knowledge to create a free and open archive of all its out-of-copyright books or old books that will not be republished.”

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November 19, 2023

International Federation for Equestrian Sports: The horse at the core of an innovative partnership between the FEI and France’s University of Caen

International Federation for Equestrian Sports: The horse at the core of an innovative partnership between the FEI and France’s University of Caen. “La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) is an innovative digital library combining the resources of public and private libraries around the world on the subject of the horse. The Library currently has an inventory of over 15,000 books with over a quarter that have been digitalised and is constantly being enriched by the addition of new works.”

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November 10, 2023

Connecticut by the Numbers: Grant to Help Hartford Look Back to the Future

Connecticut by the Numbers: Grant to Help Hartford Look Back to the Future. “The Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library was recently awarded an $18,830 National Film Preservation Foundation grant to restore and digitize a collection of early 20th-century films by radio pioneer, inventor, and Hartford resident Hiram Percy Maxim. The films, which will be available on the Connecticut Digital Archive within the next year, feature Maxim and his wife, along with their family and friends.”

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November 7, 2023

Revolutionizing research: Finland champions digital archive of 1.5 billion natural specimens (Helsinki Times)

Helsinki Times: Revolutionizing research: Finland champions digital archive of 1.5 billion natural specimens. “In a major leap forward for scientific research and policy-making, Finland’s natural science collections are undergoing extensive digitalization, as part of a broader European effort. It’s estimated that Europe’s collections alone contain 1.5 billion specimens, and this wealth of quality nature data is set to become accessible to scientists, policy-makers, and the public alike.”

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November 4, 2023

The Post-Star: Fort Ticonderoga helping with genealogy

The Post-Star: Fort Ticonderoga helping with genealogy . “The Ticonderoga Soldiers Project is a multi-phase initiative to make it easier for people around the world to connect with their family’s history at Ticonderoga. The fort’s museum staff are scouring recently-digitized archival documents including military orders, returns, court documents, letters, and diaries to identify and document the thousands of individuals who were stationed at the fort from 1755 to 1783, according to Fort Ticonderoga.”

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November 3, 2023

Times of Malta: Times of Malta partners with National Archives to preserve its photo collection

Times of Malta: Times of Malta partners with National Archives to preserve its photo collection. “Up to one million Times of Malta photos spanning much of the 20th century are to be made available to researchers and the public to view after living in dusty boxes for decades. A joint project between Times of Malta and the National Archives will see conservators digitise, catalogue and store the media house’s entire catalogue of film photos and negatives.”

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October 28, 2023

MIT Technology Review: The grassroots push to digitize India’s most precious documents

New-to-me, from MIT Technology Review: The grassroots push to digitize India’s most precious documents. “The museum building houses the largest reference library for Gandhian philosophy in the state of Karnataka, and over the next year, the large assortment of books—including the collected works of Mahatma Gandhi, a translation of his autobiography, Experiments with Truth, into the Kannada language, and other rare items—will be digitized and their metadata recorded before they join the Servants of Knowledge (SoK) collection on the Internet Archive.”

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October 24, 2023

Penn State: Libraries to host virtual, local World Digital Preservation Day events on Nov. 2

Penn State: Libraries to host virtual, local World Digital Preservation Day events on Nov. 2. “World Digital Preservation Day, held annually on the first Thursday of November, celebrates best practices in archiving and storing digitized and born-digital content. Penn State University Libraries is hosting several virtual and University Park in-person events Thursday, Nov. 2.”

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October 24, 2023

AVMA Journals: Converting the JAVMA and AJVR archives to digital files—an important ongoing project

AVMA Journals: Converting the JAVMA and AJVR archives to digital files—an important ongoing project. “Librarians have long wrestled with how best to fulfill requests for single articles pertinent to a historian’s or veterinary scholar’s work. Indeed, the University of Pennsylvania has received on average 1 request for an archived article per day for the past 6 years. Retrieving and scanning each article is a laborious task, and one that costs considerable staff time and overhead. This is also not ideal for our journals because the important work of our authors is not being cited, and citations are what drive further submissions and impact factor. Since I began as Editor-in-Chief in 2021, my team has been intent on improving access to the back volumes prior to 2000.”

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October 23, 2023

Cardinal News: Virginia Tech helps Christiansburg Institute preserve Black history archives

Cardinal News: Virginia Tech helps Christiansburg Institute preserve Black history archives. “For 100 years, Christiansburg Institute battled white discrimination by serving as a model of Black education and culture tucked away in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. Today, the battlefield has transferred to a digital arena as the nonprofit that carries its name strives to preserve it for future generations.”

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