MakeUseOf: How to Organize Your Comic Collection Using ComicRack . “ComicRack is a great app which lets you read digital comics. But it can also help you organize your comic collection. If you have a large selection of digital comics in the .cbr or .cbz formats, you can use ComicRack to browse, sort, and display your comics in one neat library. Here’s how to organize your comic collection using ComicRack.”
publications
British Library: New collections online – June 2019
British Library: New collections online – June 2019. “Over the past few months we have made six new projects available to view online through our website. These new collections demonstrate the diverse variety of archives the EAP digitises, and includes eighteenth-century Brazilian royal orders, artwork and photography by Lalit Mohan Sen, colonial archives, Coptic manuscripts and prayer scrolls, war photography, and historic newspapers.”
Islamic Painted Page: Growing a Database (Asian and African Studies Blog)
New-to-me and recently updated, from the Asian and African Studies Blog: Islamic Painted Page: Growing a Database. “Since its launch in 2013, Islamic Painted Page (IPP) has grown into a major online database of Islamicate arts of the book, with over 42,000 references to paintings, illuminations and bindings from over 270 collections around the globe – of which the British Library is one of the most important…. The website enables users to search by picture description, collection, accession number, date, place of origin, manuscript title or author, or publication – or any combination of these.”
New-to-me: the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
New-to-me, but apparently around for a while: the archive of the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals, at http://www.iapsop.com/. From the home page (and I must say this home page design is very 1997-1998, which is not a bad thing. It loads almost instantly): “The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals published between the Congress of Vienna and the start of the Second World War. Our all-volunteer staff digitizes, indexes and makes available free-of-charge these periodicals, in our archive, for use by students and researchers.”
University of Maine: Archive of Maine Campus newspaper now available online
University of Maine: Archive of Maine Campus newspaper now available online. “More than 5,000 issues of the University of Maine’s student-run newspaper, the Maine Campus, are now available online. Patrons can search the 130-year archive and download complete issues from anywhere in the world through Digital Commons at UMaine, an online repository managed by Raymond H. Fogler Library.”
The Sydney Morning Herald: World’s largest database uncovers Australia’s secret reading passions
The Sydney Morning Herald: World’s largest database uncovers Australia’s secret reading passions . “Researchers from the Australian National University’s literature school will launch this week the new Australian Common Reader website, giving a historical snapshot of the nation’s reading habits drawn from what the university says is the world’s largest database of library borrowing records. The records show borrowing habits – not catalogued books – from six Australian libraries between 1861 and 1928, not including the state libraries of Sydney and Melbourne.”
Portugal Resident: Algarve to have digital newspaper archive completed before 2020
Portugal Resident: Algarve to have digital newspaper archive completed before 2020. “A digital archive of newspapers published in the Algarve between 1808 and 1970 is expected to be completed by the end of the year, the project’s coordinator has told Lusa news agency.” If you want to lower your blood pressure, take a few minutes and visit Lonely Planet’s page for the Algarve area in Portugal. Beautiful.
