Category Archives: Library Corner

Library Corner: 2-8-2015

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Library corner imageLibrary News:

Where publishers ought to be behind libraries (Teleread)

 Artist upset after Long Beach Public Library removes doll from art display that it considered ‘controversial’ (Press Telegram)

Fire in major Russian library destroys 1m historic documents (The Guradian)

From Paper Maps to the Web: A DIY Digital Maps Primer (New York Public Library)

New Apps: Smithsonian Brings Historic Specimens to Life in Free “Skin and Bones” Mobile App (Infodocket)

Books & bikes: Share program considered for libraries (CT Post)

Big-Box Store Has New Life as an Airy Public Library (NY Times)

The K-12 and economic cases for a national digital library endowment (Teleread)

 Digital collections:

 University of North Texas Libraries Placing Digitized News Film (1950-1979) From NBC 5 / KXAS-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth) on Portal to Texas History (Infodocket)

DK Launches Online Encyclopedia for Kids (Publishers Weekly)

The Public Domain Project Makes 10,000 Film Clips, 64,000 Images & 100s of Audio Files Free to Use (Open Culture)

HMS Beagle sketchbooks added to Cambridge Digital Library (University of Cambridge)

Whitney Museum massively expands online collection database  (Art News)

University of North Carolina Library Launches DocSouth Data, Historic Texts Ready For Analysis (Infodocket)

State of Tennessee Begins Rolling Out Collection of Digitized Historic Maps Online (Infodocket)

Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Books (NEH)

Once a week, I post links to digital-related library news articles and information about new digital collections available online.

 

 

Library Corner: 1-20-2015

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Library corner imageLibrary News:

OverDrive: Ebook Checkouts Up 33 Percent (Library Journal)

Libraries as Innovation Hubs (Digital Reader)

The K-12 and Economic Cases for a National Digital Library Endowment (Library City)

Toronto Public Library sadly embraces ‘culture of free’ (Toronto Star)

Odilo Launches New Library eBook Service in the U.S. (eBook Reader)

New Digital Collections:

Pond5 Launches Searchable Collection of 80,000 Public Domain Videos, Images, and 3D Models (Infodocket)

FDR Library and Museum Doubles Online Digital Collection, 400,000+ More Digitized Items Added to FRANKLIN Database (Infodocket)

Swiss National Library Uploads 1000 Images of Paintings to Wikimedia Commons (Infodocket)

Just Released: 23,000 New Documents Uploaded to NATO Archives Online (Infodocket)

Once a week, I post links to digital-related library news articles and information about new digital collections available online.

 

Library Corner 1-13-2015

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Library corner imageAuthors Guild Gives Up Trying To Sue Libraries For Digitally Scanning Book Collection (Tech Dirt)

25+ Of The Most Majestic Libraries In The World (Bored Panda)

Some more great photogenic libraries (Teleread)

Now Trending on Twitter: Public Libraries (Publishers Weekly)

 Bueller, Lebowski, Wonka, Ryan, and 21 Other Films Join National Film Registry of the Library of Congress (Infodocket)

New Collection From Cambridge Digital Library: “‘Crown Jewels’ Of English Lute Music Go Online” (Infodocket)

Ireland’s great hunger museum launches digital database of great famine illustrations (Quinnipiac)

Science: Climate Change: The Ocean Adapt Database (Infodocket)

Library Corner: 1-5-2015

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Library corner imageRussia plans to launch national digital library in 2015 (Teleread)

Check it Out with Peter Brantley: Privacy for Library Patrons (Publishers Weekly)

How to Recommend eBooks for Libraries to Add to Their Catalog (eBook Reader)

New Full Text Book (Open Access) Discusses Use of Ebooks in Higher Education (Infodocket)

Digital Archives: Tate Archive Puts Thousand Of Artists’ Artifacts Online (Infodocket)

Want Read-aloud in Kindles and other Readers? Us the FCC’s easy online form by January 9 (Library City)

Franck Bohbot captures the world’s grandest libraries (Teleread)

 

Library Corner: 12/29/2014

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Library corner imageThe week in library news:

Alan Dundes papers open for access at UC Berkeley Bancroft Library (Teleread)

OverDrive: Streaming Video From MGM Now Available For Library Lending in U.S. and Canadian Public and School Markets (Infodocket)

Simon & Schuster Expands Library eBook Loans to the UK (Digital Reader)

Is Your City Miserly Toward Library Books? Go for a Surtax or a Special Book Funds (Library City)

Ten library systems pass one million digital checkouts in OverDrive in 2014 (Teleread)

Library Corner: 12/21/2014

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Library corner imageThe week in library news:

Sighart Report warns of “absolute disaster” in UK library services (Teleread)

Librarians are continuing to defend open access to web as a public service (Techdirt)

The Real Costs of Open Access Publishing (Teleread)

The National Library of Australia now has the largest freely available collection of digitised newspapers in the world   (Medianet)

Jisc releases report on ethical and legal challenges of learning analytics (JISC)

Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press Sues University Of California For Access To Historic Gov Docs Held at UC Berkeley Library (Reporter’s Committee)

Open Clarity on Open Licenses  (openaire.eu)

“The Promise and Problems of the Visual E-Book: Call for an Alliance between Authors and Librarians” (Infodocket)

France: Agreement Signed to Facilitate E-Lending in French Public Libraries  (Infodocket)

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Library Corner: 12/14/2014

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Library corner imageThe week in library news:

First, several articles from the ALA Winter Spotlight via Publishers Weekly:

Kiosk offers convenient link to library’s ebooks (This Week News)

MIT asks students: What do you want in a library? (MIT Library News)

40 Dr. Seuss Titles now available for public and school libraries in US and Canada from Overdrive (Infodocket)

Center for Digital Research and Scholarship launches new Digital Dante research resource (Columbia University Libraries)

 At Harvard, Technology Resurrects Long-Silent Voices Of Poets (Wbur.org, Boston NPR)

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Library Corner: 12/7/2014

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Library corner imageThis week’s links in library news:

What’s going on in the Library, Part 1: Librarian publishers may be more important than you think (Scholarly Kitchen)

3M  adds audiobooks to the cloud library (Digital Reader)

The top 10 Library stories of 2014 (Publishers Weekly)

Collected Papers of Albert Einstein debut online (Infodocket)

Second Circuit hears Google Books case (Publishers Weekly)

New York Libraries to lend hotspots  (Digital Reader)

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