Digital Collections:

Coming From National Library of Ireland in July: Materials From Catholic Parish Register Digitisation Project (Infodocket)

Top Metro Area Economies (U.S.) Mapped (Pew Trusts)

Datasets: Center for Medicare Studies Releases Prescriber-Level Medicare Data for the First Time (Infodocket)

National Museum of American History Debuts First e-Book Centered on Abraham Lincoln (Smithsonian)

Getty Research Releases Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) as Linked Open Data (LOD), Over 650,000 Names Included (Infodocket)

40,000 historical images of NZ’s Antarctic history preserved (Scoop.NZ)

Art History: 11,000 New Items Available Online From The World’s Largest Archive of British Art (Indodocket)

Penn Libraries Launches ‘OPenn’ Digital Resources Online Platform (Penn News)

New Legal Reference Resource: UK’s Supreme Court Launches On-Demand Video Archive (Infodocket)

A Drive-thru Library? New library serves growing community of commuters (My San Antonio)

About once a week, I post links to digital-related library news articles and information about digital collections available online. I also post other links of interest about the digital life on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Library Corner 5-13-2015

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

California Bill Would Require Libraries to Post IP Infringement Notice on 3D Printers (1709 Blog)

Thinking Different(ly) About University Presses (Inside Higher Ed)

Macmillan to Distribute Audiobooks to Libraries via Hoopla (Ink, Bits & Pixels)

Oxford University Press and Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) Announce New Content Deal (Infodocket)

New Technology to Borrow: North Carolina State University Libraries Begins Lending Apple Watches (Infodocket)

DCL Ebook Report, May 2015 (American Libraries)

Oxford University Press Acquires Online Language Portal bab.la (Infodocket)

Internet is not a reliable archive, Dutch organisations warn (Dutch News)

Digital Collections:

WHO Launches Open Access to the WHO Global Medicines* Safety Database (WHO)

Digital Humanities: New Online Archive Will Create Global Access To Rare African Photos (Infodocket)

UT Libraries’ New Digital Collection: Smokies Photos, Film Clips Set to Music (University of Tennessee)

Introducing EarthWorks, Stanford’s new GIS data discovery application (SUL)

Material From California Digital Library’s Calishpere Digital Archive Now Accessible on DPLA (Infodocket)

Library of Congress and WQXR’s Q2 Music Announce New On-Demand Access to Library-Commissioned Music (LOC)

Database of Soviet-era diaries in Russian now available online (Calvert Journal)

New Legal Reference Resource: U.S. Copyright Office Publishes Searchable Index of Fair Use Decisions (Infodocket)

U.Va. to Publish Rare Letters of First Lady Martha Washington (UVA Today)

Library Corner: May 5, 2015

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

When Google is your librarian and Starbucks your WiFi, do we still need public libraries? (Washington Post)

PA unveils digital library at Central Mall (Port Arthur News)

Reinventing the Modern Library as a Tech-Forward, Eco-Friendly, Community Hub (Slate)

The last online library you will ever need: Borges’s Library of Babel lives (Teleread)

Video: Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle Delivers Keynote Address at Coalition for Networked Information Spring Meeting (Infodocket)

Library Groups Join Effort for ‘Balanced’ Copyright (Publishers Weekly)

K-12 Librarians’ Roles Shift to Meet Digital Demands (Education Week)

Rhode Island: Millions of State Historical Records Stored In Flood-Prone Basement (Infodocket)

France’s libraries discovering a new lease of life beyond just books (The Guardian)

Digital Collections:

Six Museum Partners Begin Adding 3D Scans of Objects to Google Cultural Institute Database (Infodocket)

MoMA’s Digital Art Vault (MoMA)

Reference: Canada’s National Energy Board Launches Interactive Pipeline Incident Map (Infodocket)

Getty Research Institute Releases The Unprecedented Digital Publication Pietro Mellini’s Inventory In Verse, 1681 (Getty)

Reference: Women’s Political Speeches and Ads Available Through Online Archive From Iowa St. University (Infodocket)

Library of Congress Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (LOC)

“150 Years After Lincoln Assassination, Massive Online Archive in the Works” (Infodocket)

Newly Digitized Foreign Relations Volume on the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (US State Dept.)

New Resource: EPA Launches New Website to Track Safe Drinking Water Compliance (Infodocket)

WikiLeaks publishes an analysis and search system for The Sony Leaks (Wikileaks)

Library Corner 4-26-2015

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

The State of America’s Libraries 2015 (American Libraries)

The REAL Purpose of Libraries, by Ferguson Library Director Scott Bonner (Reading Rainbow)

eBooks and Libraries: 3M Cloud Library Expanding Into UK and Australian Markets (Infodocket)

Queens Library Fills Void After Closure of City’s Last Sheet Music Store (DNA Info)

Digital Public Library of America’s (DPLA) Collection Now Provides Access to 10 Millions Items From More Than 1600 Institutions (Infodocket)

Turkey’s National Library archives renovated (Daily Sabah)

Expanded Initiative Brings Free Samples of E-Books by Quebec Authors to Montreal-Trudeau Airport (Infodocket)

Digital Collections:

Listen Online: Getting to Know the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library (Infodocket)

A grandmother’s trove of Civil War photos goes to Library of Congress (Washington Post)

Roundup: New Historical Maps Made Available Online by Library of Congress Geography & Map Division (February/March 2015) (Infodocket)

The Library of Congress Is Uploading 75 Years of Poetry and Literature Recordings (Hyperallergic)

American Archive of Public Broadcasting Launches New Website/Database, Streaming Video Coming This Fall (Infodocket)

Ottawa Museums & Archives Collections (Ottawa City)

Science: NASA Creates Open Database of Space Station Research (International Space Station Information System) (Infodocket)

UMD-Led Team Creates U.S. Database of Food Safety Inspections (UMD)

About once a week, I post links to digital-related library news articles and information about digital collections available online. I also post links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Library Corner: 4/19/2015

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

The Case For Libraries (Publishers Weekly)

The ALA’s latest list of shame – no, not that kind of shame (Teleread)

Summer Reading in the Digital Age (Publishers Weekly)

Salt Lake City Main Library considers opening 24/7 (Good4Utah)

Library of Congress: Recordings by The Doors, Steve Martin, Radiohead, and Others Added to National Recording Registry (Infodocket)

Digital Collections:

Reference: American Bankers Association Launches New Search Tool for Bank Routing Numbers (Infodocket)

Harry Houdini and other Michigan death certificates online (Seeking Michigan)

Images Now Online: Archivists Unearth Rare First Edition of ‘The Map that Changed the World’ (Infodocket)

Columbia University Rare Books & Manuscript Library (Columbia University Library)

Science: NASA Releases Millions of New Images of Celestial Objects Online (Infodocket)

Final Report of the 9/11 Review Commission PDF (FBI)

Library Corner: 4-4-2015

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

On the Changing Roles of US Bookstores and Libraries (Dear Author)

Toronto Catholic School Board Cuts Every Teacher Librarian (Teleread)

Ebooks for Libraries (JAKontrath)

The British Library Releases Videos to Help Bring Awareness/Discussion to Online Privacy (Infodocket)

ALA Awards Lemony Snicket Prize to Ferguson Librarian (Teleread)

Toronto Public Library Pulps Used Book Buying Program (Ink, Bits & Pixels)

Education alliance urges Congress to support dedicated school library funding (Teleread)

How I Organize Our Library Books (From 9 Different Sources) (Book Riot)

The London Manifesto: time for reform? (The 1709 Blog)

If You Live Near Drexel University, You Can Get an iPad Via Vending Machine (Gear Diary)

Digital Collections:

422 Free Art Books Available to Download and Read Online (The Ebook Reader)

Reference: Frances Loeb Art Center at Vassar College Launches Searchable Database of Entire Collection of More Than 19,000 Objects (Infodocket)

Scotland’s historic artefacts go online (BBC)

Science: New Online Database Captures Singapore’s Rich Biodiversity (Infodocket)

Sailors and Daughters: Early Photography and the Indian Ocean (Smithsonian National Museum of African Art)

A Paddy’s Day Present: A Database for Mathew Carey Account Books and a Window into the Early American Book Trade (Past is Present)

Once a week, I post links to digital-related library news articles and information about new digital collections available online. I also post links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.