WFTS: Florida Sentinel Bulletin history in the process of being digitized at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Library

Posted on March 27, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

WFTS: Florida Sentinel Bulletin history in the process of being digitized at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Library. “The Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection dates back to the 1940s. The collection highlights African American history that you wouldn’t see in other media outlets. Right now, the library is in the process of digitizing all of the items to make them more accessible to the community.”

Internet Archive Blog: The Fight Continues

Posted on March 26, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Internet Archive Blog: The Fight Continues. “We will continue our work as a library. This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books.”

Reuters: Internet Archive’s digital book lending violates copyrights, US judge rules

Posted on March 25, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Reuters: Internet Archive’s digital book lending violates copyrights, US judge rules. “A U.S. judge has ruled that an online library operated by the nonprofit organization Internet Archive infringed the copyrights of four major U.S. publishers by lending out digitally scanned copies of their books.”

Associated Press: Book ban attempts hit record high in 2022, library org says

Posted on March 24, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Associated Press: Book ban attempts hit record high in 2022, library org says. “Attempted book bans and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, setting a record in 2022, according to a new report from the American Library Association released Thursday.”

Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Winter 2023

Posted on March 21, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Winter 2023. “This winter, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the newly available titles.”

Press Information Bureau (India): Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has launched an ambitious project to digitize the research material in its possession

Posted on March 21, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Press Information Bureau (India): Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has launched an ambitious project to digitize the research material in its possession. “Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has launched an ambitious project to digitize the research material in its possession. Under this project, the goal is to ensure the conversion of the entire India House Collection of the Library consisting of 40,000 books, reports, periodicals (containing around 70,00,000 pages), 55,00,000 pages of archival documents, and of 30,000 microfilms and 57,000 microfiches (consisting of approximately 2.5 crore images) to digital form.” If you’re not from India and confused by the commas in the numbers, this will enlighten you.

Wall Street Journal: Online-Books Lawsuit Tests Limits of Libraries in Digital Age

Posted on March 19, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Wall Street Journal: Online-Books Lawsuit Tests Limits of Libraries in Digital Age. “A federal judge on Monday will weigh pleas by four major book publishers to stop an online lending library from freely offering digital copies of books, in a case that raises novel questions about digital-library rights and the reach of copyright law that protects the work of writers and publishers.”

General Aviation News: General Aviation News archives digitized back to 1990

Posted on March 18, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

General Aviation News: General Aviation News archives digitized back to 1990. “The print edition of General Aviation News has been digitized from 1990 through March 2023. Those archives can be seen at the General Aviation News website.” The archives seem to be completely free. They’re hosted on Dropbox.

The Verge: Amazon stops selling magazines and newspapers through Kindle Newsstand

Posted on March 17, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

The Verge: Amazon stops selling magazines and newspapers through Kindle Newsstand. “Amazon is no longer selling magazine and newspaper subscriptions through Kindle Newsstand and will stop delivering current Kindle Newsstand subscriptions in September, according to an announcement from last week.”

National Diet Library, Japan: 320,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service

Posted on March 14, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

National Diet Library, Japan: 320,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service. “The National Diet Library has made roughly 320,000 items (ZIP: 45.7MB) from the National Diet Library Digital Collections newly available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service, as detailed below.”

American Legion: 50 years of Sons of The American Legion newsletters now available

Posted on March 10, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

American Legion: 50 years of Sons of The American Legion newsletters now available. “More than 1,400 pages of Sons of The American Legion newsletters are now available through the American Legion Digital Archive. Digitization of this material was made possible by the Sons organization to support their upcoming centennial. The newly available newsletters focus on national SAL activities, particularly national meetings. For the first time, early activities of squadrons and detachments can be explored in the Legion Heir newsletter.”

The Village Sun: East Village Eye archive sees its way to N.Y.P.L.

Posted on March 9, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

The Village Sun: East Village Eye archive sees its way to N.Y.P.L.. “Founded by Leonard Abrams, its publisher and editor, ‘The Eye’ put out 73 issues from 1979 through 1987. It mainly focused on local topics, particularly art, music, politics and gentrification.” A complete digital archive is freely available.

ANSAmed: Project to digitize Italian periodicals in Egypt

Posted on March 7, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

From ANSAmed, and translated from Italian (an English version is available but the formatting is really bad): Project to digitize Italian periodicals in Egypt. “A project was presented in Cairo which, through the digitization of tens of thousands of pages, aims to preserve and make available to the public the historic collection of printed periodicals by the end of the year in Egypt in the Italian language in almost 50 years, between the end of the 19th century and the pre-war period.”

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