In the 1890s, a time before the expediency of the internet, Charles Davies Sherborn embarked upon a meticulous and expansive research project on par with the Oxford English Dictionary—only he did it single-handedly.
Category: Digitization
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries has named Library and Archive Exhibitions on the Web as an "Editor's Pick" in their August 2010 issue. The review in part reads, This Smithsonian site is the best more »
The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science held its 3rd annual Summer Institute on Data Curation. This year's focus was on earth and environmental sciences data. more »
The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library has in its collection the photograph archive, The Pageant of America. This collection has also recently been digitized by The New York Public Library: In more »
Many of us are not fully aware of the enormous quantity of text, images, audio and video that are being produced today in digital format. But we can begin to more »
The Libraries announces a new, paid internship program for graduate students interested in working in research and museum libraries. The program covers specific areas, including special collections and preservation, technical more »
No kidding, on April 1, I attended the meeting, "A National Conversation on the Economic Sustainability of Digital Information" here in Washington. The meeting was hosted by the Blue Ribbon more »