LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Digital Preservation interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:55:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/newspapers-digitization-searchable-archives-of-new-mexico-state-u-student-paper-the-round-up-1893-1999-now-available-free/ From an Article: No more biweekly print editions. Instead, content will be posted online daily, supplemented by a weekly print edition. And through the Round-Up Digitalization Project, archives of the newspaper from as far back at 1893 will be available online for anyone to access. [Clip] The $15,000 project was sponsored by student fees from the Associated Students of New Mexico State University, a grant from the New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board and private donations from former Round Up editors. “We bring the collection to you,” said Elizabeth Titus, library dean. “We did this to increase access to the historical collection. Before, you had to have someone with you to study the archives. Also, preservation, because there was serious deterioration.” Access the Complete Article Search and View Content from The Round Up Digital Archive (1893-1999) Source: Las Cruces Sun News (via El Paso Times) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:20:56 +0100 867706 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/1WIzFTakgRc/jobs-usa-new-york-albany-seeking.html POSITION:  Associate Director for Collections The University at Albany, SUNY, invites applications and nominations for the position of Associate Director for Collections. Reporting to the Dean and Director of Libraries, this senior administrative position is responsible for building, assessing and managing the Libraries' print and electronic collections, managing a $5 million acquisitions budget, and supervising, coordinating and evaluating the work of the Libraries' subject specialists. Responsibilities also include oversight of gifts, Special Collections, University Archives, and the Preservation Department. As a member of the senior administrative group, the Associate Director shares responsibility for developing and implementing the mission, goals and broad policy directions for the University Libraries. Albany is looking for an experienced, creative, forward-thinking leader with a keen sense of the evolving role of research libraries in the digital age and demonstrated knowledge of best practices and current trends in collection management and scholarly communication.  The Associate Director works actively with academic schools and departments to determine selective areas of excellence and growth to be reflected in the Libraries' collection investment. S/he is responsible for coordinating initiatives with other associate directors and library managers, advising and mentoring junior faculty, and promoting staff professional growth. S/he represents the Libraries on collaborative projects with other campus units and other libraries.  The Associate Director demonstrates commitment to personal professional development through scholarly research and publication, presentations, and participation in national professional associations. Required: Graduate degree in librarianship from an ALA-accredited institution and from a college or university accredited by a U. S. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:32:00 +0100 867416 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/29/neh-awards-new-digital-humanities-start-up-grants/ The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program has made 28 new awards. Here's an excerpt from the press release: American University — Washington, DC The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history's interpersonal network Fernando Benadon, Project Director Outright: $49,777 To support: The development of an online tool to map connections and collaborations among American jazz musicians. Bank Street College of Education — New York, NY Civil Rights Movement Remix (CRM-Remix) Bernadette Anand, Project Director Outright: $25,000 To support: A series of workshops to plan the development of location-based smartphone applications about the African-American Civil Rights Movement based around sites in Harlem, NY. Boston University — Boston, MA Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities Jack Ammerman, Project Director Outright: $13,767 To support: A two-day meeting of humanities scholars, librarians, and computational analysis experts to consider how to improve existing cataloging software that attempts to better classify interdisciplinary humanities research. Brown University — Providence, RI A Journal-Driven Bibliography of Digital Humanities Julia Flanders, Project Director Outright: $49,659 To support: Development of a project led by the staff of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) to create, manage, export, and publish high quality bibliographical data across the digital humanities research domain. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867658 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/29/long-term-preservation-services-a-description-of-ltp-services-in-a-digital-library-environment/ The British Library, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and Nasjonalbiblioteket have released Long-Term Preservation Services: A Description of LTP Services in a Digital Library Environment. Here's an excerpt: The main focus of this document is long-term preservation, but considered as an integral part of the overall digital library capability within a library and the corresponding workflows. We therefore seek information about long-term preservation within this broader context. Principles and implementation may vary greatly, and we are open to alternative approaches. The document starts with an overview of all the types of services involved in LTP, and shows how different institutions might draw the boundaries between the LTP and a wider digital library capability. We then take the three core functions of an LTP system (to ingest, retain, and provide access to digital content) and show how the services work together to fulfill each function. Finally, we give a detailed description of each type of service. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867654 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/DHH0eOXWyeM/ The British Library, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and Nasjonalbiblioteket have released Long-Term Preservation Services: A Description of LTP Services in a Digital Library Environment. Here's an excerpt: The main focus of this document is long-term preservation, but considered as an integral part of the overall digital library capability within a library and the corresponding workflows. We therefore seek information about long-term preservation within this broader context. Principles and implementation may vary greatly, and we are open to alternative approaches. The document starts with an overview of all the types of services involved in LTP, and shows how different institutions might draw the boundaries between the LTP and a wider digital library capability. We then take the three core functions of an LTP system (to ingest, retain, and provide access to digital content) and show how the services work together to fulfill each function. Finally, we give a detailed description of each type of service. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:31:20 +0100 867313 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/BDfVISosX2s/ The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program has made 28 new awards. Here's an excerpt from the press release: American University — Washington, DC The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history's interpersonal network Fernando Benadon, Project Director Outright: $49,777 To support: The development of an online tool to map connections and collaborations among American jazz musicians. Bank Street College of Education — New York, NY Civil Rights Movement Remix (CRM-Remix) Bernadette Anand, Project Director Outright: $25,000 To support: A series of workshops to plan the development of location-based smartphone applications about the African-American Civil Rights Movement based around sites in Harlem, NY. Boston University — Boston, MA Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities Jack Ammerman, Project Director Outright: $13,767 To support: A two-day meeting of humanities scholars, librarians, and computational analysis experts to consider how to improve existing cataloging software that attempts to better classify interdisciplinary humanities research. Brown University — Providence, RI A Journal-Driven Bibliography of Digital Humanities Julia Flanders, Project Director Outright: $49,659 To support: Development of a project led by the staff of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) to create, manage, export, and publish high quality bibliographical data across the digital humanities research domain. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:01:59 +0100 867320 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/event-archiving-2011.html Received via email...IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.  The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010.  A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving.The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2011 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the October 17th deadline. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866457 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/7QejuYeFXUg/event-archiving-2011.html Received via email...IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.  The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010.  A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving.The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2011 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the October 17th deadline. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866369 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/26/case-study-podcasts-in-the-archives-archiving-podcasting-content-at-the-university-of-michigan/ Case Study: Podcasts in the Archives: Archiving Podcasting Content at the University of Michigan (14 Pages; PDF) by Alexis Antracoli, University of Michigan From a Summary (via SI Informat, UMich) Podcasts in the Archives: Archiving Podcasting Content at the University of Michigan is one of the Campus Case Studies published on the SAA portal. Campus Case Studies are reports by university archivists on working solutions for born-digital records. The initial Campus Case Studies resulted from a workshop of university archivists on “The Development of Case Studies for the Effective Management of University Digital Records” held at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan in September 2007. The Campus Case Studies portal was launched with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. From the Case Study: This case study examines the challenges involved in developing best practices and workflows for archiving and preserving podcasting content created by the University of Michigan. One major issue involved establishing standards of practice for ingest, storage, and access, especially the generation and storage of appropriate descriptive, technical, and preservation metadata. Another challenge centered around developing the necessary technological infrastructure to support an Open Archives Information System (OAIS)-compliant system. Source: UMich (via Archives*Open) (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:21:46 +0100 865863 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~5/SAnnET1MNaU/AJIC10-Gray.pdf Next Weblog update on 9/29/10. The African Journal of Information and Communication, no. 10 (2009/2010): Includes "Access to Africa's Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value," "Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge," "Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA," "Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities," and other articles. Ariadne, no. 64 (2010): Includes: "Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment," "Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE," "Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge," and other articles. Aslib Proceedings 62, no. 4/5 (2010): Includes "Excavating Grey Literature: A Case Study on the Rich Indexing of Archaeological Documents via Natural Language-Processing Techniques and Knowledge-Based Resources" and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Open Access Journals Bibliography, version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2010. International Journal of Digital Curation 5, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem?," "Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network," "Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories: TIPR," "Towards Smart Storage for Repository Preservation Services," "The Use of Quality Management Standards in Trustworthy Digital Archives," and other articles. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, no. 62 (2010): Includes "Publishing Practices of NIH-Funded Faculty at MIT" and other articles. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 7, no. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:23:48 +0100 866426 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/event-digital-preservation-training.html  Received via email...Bookings now open for Digital Preservation Training ProgrammeUniversity of London Computer Centre announces that the next Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) will take place from 4th-6th of October 2010, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.The DPTP is an intensive 3-day course designed for all those working in institutional information management who are grappling with fundamental issues of digital preservation. It provides the skills and knowledge necessary for institutions to combine organisational and technological perspectives and develop an appropriate response to the challenges that digital preservation needs present. DPTP is operated and organised by the University of London Computer Centre with contributions from leading experts in the field.Bookings for DPTP are now open at the ULCC online store. Please note that currently only payment by credit/debit card is fully automated online, and this would be our preferred method of payment. However, if you require to be sent an invoice, please see the 'more info' tab on the DPTP online booking website.The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is again generously offering three fully funded scholarships so that DPC members and associates can participate in the DPTP October 2010. For further details of eligibility and the application process, please see the DPC website.Please see the links below for further information: DPTP online: www.dptp.orgBooking: http://bit.ly/dptpOCT10DPC website: www.dpconline.orgThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/26xafKGo15s/event-digital-preservation-training.html  Received via email...Bookings now open for Digital Preservation Training ProgrammeUniversity of London Computer Centre announces that the next Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) will take place from 4th-6th of October 2010, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.The DPTP is an intensive 3-day course designed for all those working in institutional information management who are grappling with fundamental issues of digital preservation. It provides the skills and knowledge necessary for institutions to combine organisational and technological perspectives and develop an appropriate response to the challenges that digital preservation needs present. DPTP is operated and organised by the University of London Computer Centre with contributions from leading experts in the field.Bookings for DPTP are now open at the ULCC online store. Please note that currently only payment by credit/debit card is fully automated online, and this would be our preferred method of payment. However, if you require to be sent an invoice, please see the 'more info' tab on the DPTP online booking website.The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is again generously offering three fully funded scholarships so that DPC members and associates can participate in the DPTP October 2010. For further details of eligibility and the application process, please see the DPC website.Please see the links below for further information: DPTP online: www.dptp.orgBooking: http://bit.ly/dptpOCT10DPC website: www.dpconline.orgThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865690 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arlisnap/~3/OMsRWibXGP4/ Via: libgig.com Amherst College , Amherst , MA Function Leads the library’s efforts to produce, gather, organize, and disseminate digital content (a) useful to the curriculum, (b) in need of preservation, or (c) unique to the College and of use to the larger scholarly community. Principal duties and responsibilities ● Provides vision and leadership for [...] (Source: [ArLiSNAP]) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:26:27 +0100 866173 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/25/ibm-and-eu-partner-to-enable-the-digitization-of-historic-european-texts-on-massive-scale-two-dozen-national-libraries-participating/ From the News Release: IBM and the EU have expanded their research collaboration, which now includes more than two-dozen national libraries, research institutes, universities, and companies across Europe to provide new technology that will enable highly-accurate digitization of rare and culturally significant historical texts on a massive scale. Unlike past digitization projects where the result has been static, online libraries of texts, this unique widescale effort, called IMPACT (IMProving ACcess to Text), will offer new tools and best practices to institutions across Europe that will enable them to efficiently and accurately continue to produce quality digital replicas of historically significant texts and make them widely available, editable and searchable online. [Snip] “IMPACT is remarkable in that it not only allows these prominent centers of culture to ultimately bring people closer to perhaps never before seen historically significant texts of heritage — but because it actually allows these people to become part of the preservation process,” said Tal Drory, manager of the document processing group at IBM Research in Haifa. “IMPACT offers the first digitization system that combines the power of crowd computing with an adaptive optical character recognition (OCR) correction solution that can achieve excellent recognition rates across all kinds of documents – from the 15th century right up through the 19th century.” [Snip] IMPACT technology streamlines, simplifies and accelerates the process of winnowing out questionable text scans, enabling reviewers to key in corrections to the text. Instead of displaying an entire scanned page, reviewers only see the actual letters or words in question. For example, the letter combination “r” and “n” (”rn”) may appear indistinguishable from the letter “m. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:04:50 +0100 864851 http://marklindner.info/blog/2010/08/25/a-grand-unified-theory-of-librarianship-seriously/ McGrath, William E. 2002. Explanation and Prediction: Building a Unified Theory of Librarianship, Concept and Review. Library Trends 50, no. 3 (Winter): 350-370. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8420.   McGrath advocates that we need a Unified Theory of Librarianship and outlines what he considers to be “some of the traditional areas of concern to librarianship” which will have to be subsumed into such a theory.  He provides some ideas on what kinds of studies we would need to allow us to generate an overarching theory of LIS and lists some (then) recent studies that fit or demonstrate this mode. According to McGrath, the traditional areas to be considered are: publishing, acquisitions, storage and preservation, classification and organization of knowledge, collections, and circulation.  As he admits on page 356, he completely ignores “the digital revolution” as he believes “while the production of electronic databases, the World Wide Web, and the Internet is technology, their use can be described in terms of traditional library functions.”  While this is, in fact, true it is also an extremely limiting view.  The “digital revolution” has progressed to the point where simply trying to describe it in the terms and categories of traditional librarianship is not a healthy way to move the profession forward. It is, in my opinion, the opposite. One of my largest areas of complaint with the article is in his treatment of classification and organization of knowledge.  I find it lacking in several ways. His initial sentences in the section CLASSIFICATION just bother me: “The classification scheme used by the library is a major property of the collection.  The scheme reflects the librarians’ perceptions of how knowledge is organized or structured” (354). One can certainly make both of these claims and, in a sense, they are true. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:19:17 +0100 866004 http://www.alia.org.au/employment/vacancies/listing.html?ID=1767 Employer: Queensland State Archives [closing date: 10 September 2010] (Source: ALIAnet: LIS jobs) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:13:05 +0100 865272 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogjunction/~3/7g9BoZDzwtc/ We’re gearing up for Wednesday’s special 2-hour Digitization & Preservation Symposium, from 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern and we hope you can join us! The session will feature presentations on current trends and practical approaches to library digitization and preservation projects. One of the presenters unfortunately had to cancel due to a family emergency, but we’ll have plenty of time for the other presentations and extra time for your questions and comments. Panelists include: Sarah McHugh, Statewide Projects Librarian, Montana State Library, including Montana Memory Project. Amy Rudersdorf, Director of the Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina and lecturer at San Jose State University, School of Library & Information Science. Taylor Surface, Senior Product Manager, Digital Collection Services, OCLC. Register and preview resources » (Source: BlogJunction) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:18:46 +0100 867277 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/08/presentations-on-law-libraries-and.html The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) held its annual World Library and Information Congress last week in Gothenburg, Sweden.The Aug. 12 conference session was about Law Libraries, Government Libraries and Government Information and Official Publications and included a presentation by Claire Germain of Cornell University on Digitizing the World’s Laws: Authentication and Preservation:"Many countries now provide online access to statutes, codes, regulations, court decisions, and international agreements. The focus here is on official legal information coming from governments world-wide. To assess progress, in early 2010 I conducted an empirical survey of as many as possible of the 192 countries listed by the United Nations, mostly by going directly to the government websites of each country (...)""This first world snapshot shows much progress and the overall picture that emerges is very positive, showing world-wide evolution toward the availability of more information. However, because the digital medium is vulnerable to errors and tampering, it is of utmost importance to make digital legal information official and authentic. In addition, there are special concerns for the preservation of long term access to born digital content with no paper equivalent." (Source: Library Boy) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864931 http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-08-16.htm OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie spoke about the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and its final report, at the 2010 LIBER Annual Conference at Aarhus University in Denmark. (Source: OCLC Research) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:02:38 +0100 865056 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/cfp-reimagining-archive-remapping-and.html CFP: Reimagining the Archive: Remapping and Remixing Traditional Models in the Digital Era November 12, 13, 14, 2010University of California, Los Angeles, James Bridges TheaterVisit the website at http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/reimagining/Symposium - Screenings - SpeakersOpening keynote - Rick Prelinger, archivist, filmmaker, founder Prelinger Archives.Digitality has radically and dynamically transformed the role of traditional archives and museums as repositories for revered, to-be-safeguarded cultural objects. As de facto archives created by users and industry organizations proliferate online; as the social engagement and complexity of Web 2.0 culture expand; and as expansive copyright regimes entail ever more intrusive forms of monitoring and enforcement, archives' traditional missions of custody and controlled access are being challenged by the new habits and expectations of scholars, researchers, and the general public alike.We invite archivists, scholars, educators, technology professionals, and artists to submit 500-word abstracts for PAPERS, PANELS, PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS, and DEMONSTRATIONS that explore and examine the wide spectrum of issues influencing and impacting the evolution of archival access, practice, technology, and research in the digital era.Deadline for abstracts is flexible and proposals will be considered as they are received; preferably before October 1. Abstracts should be submitted to digital@ucla.edu.For more INFORMATION and to REGISTER: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/reimagining/Organized by:UCLA Film & Television ArchiveUCLA M.A. Program in Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) Institut Nationalde l'Audiovisuel (INA), Paris INA'Sup / European Centre for Research,Training and Education on Digital MediaWith additional support from:National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP),U.S. ... Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866359 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3072 A few days ago, the Washington Post interviewed David Walls, GPO's new -- and first! -- preservation librarian. We're really excited to work with GPO and Mr Walls on building our public digital govt information preservation architecture. David Walls is overseeing the transition at the GPO to digital archiving By Lisa Rein. Friday, July 30, 2010; B03 The U.S. Government Printing Office provides Americans with permanent access to government information, printing about 2 billion pages every year. As it celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, it has hired its first preservation librarian to oversee, among other things, the transition to digital archiving. David Walls comes to Washington from Yale University, where he worked as a preservation librarian for 12 years. Walls, 47, just finished his fourth month on the job. Q.How did you get interested in library preservation? I volunteered years ago in the rare-books collection at the Baylor University library in Texas. I got bitten by the bug then. It's a very small field and a young one. You could probably put every preservation person in the U.S. in one large hotel ballroom. Most people who do this work are in academic settings or private libraries, but there are government libraries, too, beyond the Library of Congress. You've got the National Library of Medicine, for example. Why did the office create a position for a preservationist? We're in an era of digital publications being produced all over government. We're continuing to supply printed copies of the Federal Register and other publications, but most every federal agency is producing things with only digital content. If you get on almost every federal Web site you'll click on things that, in a previous age, would have been produced in a report or a book. The GPO is updating a digital system we rolled out last year to disseminate and authenticate all of this government information. If you go to http://www.fdsys. ... Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:59:32 +0100 865732 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/ecdl-2010.html The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) will take place in 6th to 10th of September at the University of Glasgow. The conference main topics include Digital Libraries and Mobility, Digital Library Architectures, Digital Library Infrastructure, Digital Preservation and Curation, Information Mining in Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries, Interoperability of Digital Library Systems and Services, Knowledge Organization Systems, Metadata Standards and Protocols in Digital Library Systems, Multilinguality in Digital Libraries, Multimedia Digital Libraries, Personal Information Management and Personal Digital Libraries, Personalisation in Digital Library Systems and Settings, Policies for Digital Library systems, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Collaborative Interfaces in Digital Libraries, User Interfaces for Digital Libraries, User Studies for and Evaluation of Digital Library Systems and Applications and Visualization in Digital Libraries. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866483 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/03/library-of-congress-launches-national-digital-stewardship-alliance/ From the Announcement: The Library of Congress announced today the formation of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), a partnership of institutions and organizations dedicated to preserving and providing access to selected databases, web pages, video, audio and other digital content with enduring value. The alliance is an outgrowth of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), which the Library has administered since 2000. In establishing the program, Congress directed the Library to work with other federal agencies and a variety of additional communities to develop a national approach to digital preservation. NDIIPP has achieved substantial success though partnering with more than 170 institutions to provide access to a diverse national collection of digital content. This work demonstrates that a collective effort can achieve far more than individual institutions working alone. The NDSA will build on this accomplishment by focusing on several goals. It will develop improved preservation standards and practices; work with experts to identify categories of digital information that are most worthy of preservation; and take steps to incorporate content into a national collection. It will provide national leadership for digital-preservation education and training. The new organization will also provide communication and outreach for all aspects of digital preservation. “It is clear that collective action is needed to preserve valuable digital information that our nation needs to support economic, scientific and cultural innovation,” said Laura Campbell, associate librarian for strategic initiatives. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:23:21 +0100 864409 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/03/yale-university-joins-hathitrust-and-some-current-hathitrust-statsvisualizations/ From the Announcement on the HathiTrust Homepage: We are pleased to announce that Yale University Library (YUL) has joined HathiTrust. [Our emphasis]The first items Yale has designated for deposit are approximately 29,000 books that YUL digitized with support from Yale University’s Provost’s Office and from the Microsoft Corporation. Yale is aiming for initial content delivery to HathiTrust in the September/October 2010 timeframe. According to Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs at Yale University, “Joining HathTrust helps Yale fulfill several current important goals: + Long term preservation for the Library’s digital content underlies our information and service needs, and we are fortunate to benefit from the sophisticated commitment of HathiTrust libraries in this critical area. + By providing access to the “Microsoft books,” we will complete the access piece of that project, realizing the Provost’s and Library’s considerable investment in digitizing these books. + We will join and have the opportunity to contribute to this important partnership and to affect its future planning after its start-up phase concludes (2013). + Participation in HathiTrust will complement and strengthen the Library’s participation in the Yale Digital Commons, a collaborative framework launched by Yale’s ODAI (Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure) to develop services to support the lifecycle management and use of Yale’s digital assets. HathiTrust is one component of a wider digital preservation strategy for Yale, integrating relationships with community-based solutions like HathiTrust with local implementation where required. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:46:04 +0100 864247 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/eLKv5Zm0nSg/ Without explanation, the University of Houston Libraries have restored The Public Access-Computer Systems Review and other deleted publications. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:02:00 +0100 864022 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/rxbxXr6_7Iw/ The University of Houston Libraries published one of the first open access peer-reviewed journals published on the Internet, The Public Access-Computer Systems Review. Established in 1989, the journal's last issue was published in 1998. It had over 4.2 million Gopher or Web file requests from January 1994 through December 2006. Today, the University of Houston Libraries have deleted this open access journal from their website. The only remnant of the digital version of the journal is an online catalog record, whose link is inoperative. The current Dean of the University of Houston Libraries, Dana C. Rooks, served as an editor of the journal. The University of Houston Libraries have also deleted the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography archive. The UH Libraries published this updated digital book from 1996 through 2006. The only remnant of the of the digital book is an online catalog record, whose link is inoperative. From October 1996 through December 2006, the digital book had over 6.6 million Web file requests. The University of Houston Libraries have also deleted Public-Access Computer Systems News. The UH Libraries published this digital newsletter from 1990 though 1995. There is no catalog record for this newsletter. Both Dean Dana Rooks and Senior Associate Dean Linda Thompson were editors of this newsletter. The University of Houston Libraries have also deleted the home pages for two early Internet discussion lists, PACS-L and PACS-P. Preliminary searching in Google suggests that, in spite of a copyright agreement that permitted libraries from freely archiving The Public Access-Computer Systems Review, none have done so. Perhaps they expected that the University of Houston Libraries would perpetually archive a digital journal that they published. Although there appears to be no library archive of the The Public Access-Computer Systems Review, print versions of volumes 1-5 are still available in some libraries. ... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:35:28 +0100 864023 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/02/last-weeks-digitalkoans-tweets-2010-08-01/ Emerging Technologies Librarian [NASA Langley Technical Library] http://icio.us/1mkeqq # Publisher argues free access to research violates administration's transparency initiative http://icio.us/n1rk34 # Clearing up some confusions [Federal Research Public Access Act] http://icio.us/fh4kl3 # Lessons From 20 Years of Current Cites http://icio.us/utuaiw # National Leadership Grants , July 2010 Planning Grant Announcement http://icio.us/fzika2 # An Insider's View of the WIPO: Interview with Janice T. Pilch, UIUC http://icio.us/a4czii # Public Access to Federally-Funded Research Hearing Page with Testimony http://icio.us/kjaxfy # In Testimony, Publishers Say Public Access Bill Would Undermine Copyright, Scholarly Journals http://icio.us/gzfd0f # Now Available: Prepared Testimony (Full Text) From “Public Access to Federally Funded Research” Hearing http://icio.us/yjnt4o # Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Update (July 30, 2010) http://bit.ly/bZlKtK # Technology Librarian [Dexter District Library] http://icio.us/frhidf # Worth the Wait – installment #1 http://icio.us/b2hcwx # Automated Accessibility Analysis of PDFs in Repositories http://icio.us/vc2gve # Kindle 3 vs Nook, Sony Reader http://icio.us/khri3i # Kindle 3 Insights http://icio.us/0vwk01 # Breaking Down the 2009 DMCA Rulemaking, Part 1: Victory for Vidders http://icio.us/d0cvqh # American Physical Society Makes Journals Free–In U.S. Public Libraries http://icio.us/brabcy # University of Ottawa Press goes Open Access http://icio.us/5zrkkd # Emerging-technology expert calls for open access to academic knowledge http://icio.us/4lzvur # Congressional Hearing Over Public Access Filled With High Drama http://icio.us/bhcboo # Consultant for COILS (Colleges of Ontario Integrated Library System Group) http://icio.us/3ei2ce # Witness List for the Hearing entitled, "Public Access to Federally-Funded Research" http://icio. ... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864255 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/1Hdj3MlD09Q/ Emerging Technologies Librarian [NASA Langley Technical Library] http://icio.us/1mkeqq # Publisher argues free access to research violates administration's transparency initiative http://icio.us/n1rk34 # Clearing up some confusions [Federal Research Public Access Act] http://icio.us/fh4kl3 # Lessons From 20 Years of Current Cites http://icio.us/utuaiw # National Leadership Grants, July 2010 Planning Grant Announcement http://icio.us/fzika2 # An Insider's View of the WIPO: Interview with Janice T. Pilch, UIUC http://icio.us/a4czii # Public Access to Federally-Funded Research Hearing Page with Testimony http://icio.us/kjaxfy # In Testimony, Publishers Say Public Access Bill Would Undermine Copyright, Scholarly Journals http://icio.us/gzfd0f # Now Available: Prepared Testimony (Full Text) From “Public Access to Federally Funded Research” Hearing http://icio.us/yjnt4o # Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Update (July 30, 2010) http://bit.ly/bZlKtK # Technology Librarian [Dexter District Library] http://icio.us/frhidf # Worth the Wait – installment #1 http://icio.us/b2hcwx # Automated Accessibility Analysis of PDFs in Repositories http://icio.us/vc2gve # Kindle 3 vs Nook, Sony Reader http://icio.us/khri3i # Kindle 3 Insights http://icio.us/0vwk01 # Breaking Down the 2009 DMCA Rulemaking, Part 1: Victory for Vidders http://icio.us/d0cvqh # American Physical Society Makes Journals Free–In U.S. Public Libraries http://icio.us/brabcy # University of Ottawa Press goes Open Access http://icio.us/5zrkkd # Emerging-technology expert calls for open access to academic knowledge http://icio.us/4lzvur # Congressional Hearing Over Public Access Filled With High Drama http://icio.us/bhcboo # Consultant for COILS (Colleges of Ontario Integrated Library System Group) http://icio.us/3ei2ce # Witness List for the Hearing entitled, "Public Access to Federally-Funded Research" http://icio. ... Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0100 864024 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/G6M2Kz1X01g/dare-to-share-new-approaches-to-long.html Dare to share: new approaches to long-term collections management - Research Libraries UK / Preservation Advisory Centre Joint Conference - 6 September 2010 - London, UK - "This one day conference examines how libraries and other research institutions can benefit from integrating preservation into broader, long-term collections management strategies, with a particular emphasis on collaborative preservation ventures. Speakers from the UK and abroad present current thinking on hybrid collections; using collection strengths to inform integrated strategies for resource allocation; how digitisation affects what we keep; protecting investment in digitisation projects; lifecycle costing of digital collections; and opens up the question about the UK Research Reserve being a model for other library materials" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:55:03 +0100 863612 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/30/a-conversation-with-the-david-walls-gpos-first-preservation-librarian/ About two weeks ago we posted an item about the Government Printing Office hiring the first preservation librarian in the history of the agency. His name is David Walls and he came to the GPO from Yale University where he worked as a preservation librarian for twelve years. He is concluding his fourth month on the job. Today, the Washington Post has published a Q&A style interview with Mr. Walls. Here are two question and answer sets. Q. How did you get interested in library preservation? Walls: I volunteered years ago in the rare-books collection at the Baylor University library in Texas. I got bitten by the bug then. It’s a very small field and a young one. You could probably put every preservation person in the U.S. in one large hotel ballroom. Most people who do this work are in academic settings or private libraries, but there are government libraries, too, beyond the Library of Congress. You’ve got the National Library of Medicine, for example. Q. What are the challenges of carrying out the agency’s mission without paper? Wallis: The paper publication had a physical form, so there was some intellectual control over what it was and where you could find it. You could sit there for quite a long time without worrying about it becoming obsolete. You weren’t going to go into the library one day and find out that a publication was inaccessible because it was in a different file format. With digital, you have the whole issue of how do you know it’s authentic? That all the information is there? The digital publication requires almost constant vigilance. Access the Complete Washington Post Interview (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:38:13 +0100 863427 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=801 The following panelists will help us explore the ins and outs of group collaborations during “Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership through Collaboration“: Rob Stein, CIO, Indianapolis Museum of Art Collaboration Trials and Triumphs: ArtBabble, Steve, etc. Tom Garnett, BHL Director, Smithsonian Institution Collaboration Trials and Triumphs: Biodiversity Heritage Library John F. Helmer, Executive Director, Orbis Cascade Alliance Collaboration Trials and Triumphs: Northwest Digital Archives & Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) As with our previous panel on local solutions, the specific projects serve as exemplars for collaboration strategies which the audience will be able to apply to realizing their own ambitions. Speaking of which, we’ve made sure to have some time on the agenda where attendees can explore the implications of what they’ve heard in smaller group settings (see the Birds-of-a-Feather slots on Day 2). During online registration, people vote for specific topics they’d like to see covered in these facilitated discussion settings, such as single search (local), digital preservation (group) or open access (global). Here’s some background on group collaborations: Group Solutions - Common Interest “We work together because we have common interests.” Moving beyond the single institution, collaboration across organizational boundaries occurs when there is a common interest. A group of motivated individuals or institutions bands together to work on an issue they would have found difficult or impossible to solve in isolation. Many collaborative grant-funded projects fall into this category: a finite number of players tackle an issue that vexes participants in their own local contexts. Because the local benefit of this type of collaboration can be readily perceived, common interest collaborations are generally accepted as a way to achieve broad outcomes. ... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:47:11 +0100 864044 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/k1E3bY3kXao/video-interview-brian-lavoie-on-blue.html "OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie recently visited JISC's Strategic Content Alliance and took a few minutes (7:37, actually) to speak about the Task Force and its work. Lavoie was co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, which was set up to look at digital preservation from an economic perspective (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:48:56 +0100 863096 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/07/cfp-music-reference-services-quarterly.html CFP: Music Reference Services QuarterlyEditors are inviting articles for the Fall and Winter 2010 double issue of Music Reference Services Quarterly, the peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis. The articles should fall within the scope of music librarianship in any of the following categories:• administration and management• bibliographic instruction• collection development• digital audio delivery• electronic resources• facilities• music librarianship education• preservation of music materials• reference services• cataloging• bibliographies involving printed music and audio-visual materialsThe submission deadline is August 16, 2010. Conference presentations and poster sessions that would be appropriate to expand as a journal article within the scope of Music Reference Services Quarterly are welcome. No previously published, simultaneously submitted material will be considered. For additional information and a description of the review process, Music Reference Services Quarterly contributor guidelines may be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t792306936~tab=submit~mode=paper_submission_instructionsAll papers should be emailed to Ana Dubnjakovic (ana@vt.edu) and Michelle Hahn (mhahn@mail.smu.edu). We look forward to hearing from you! (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864045 http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-07-28.htm OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie recently visited JISC's Strategic Content Alliance and took a few minutes (7:37, actually) to speak about the Task Force and its work. (Source: OCLC Research) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:44:41 +0100 863717 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15412 Librarian II - University Archivist (Loyola Marymount University, California) Loyola Marymount University seeks an experienced librarian for the position of Archivist for the University Archives at the William H. Hannon Library. Loyola Marymount, founded in 1911, is a comprehensive university in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education. Located on the west side of Los Angeles overlooking the Pacific Ocean, LMU is one of the nation’s 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and five Marymount institutions. It serves 5,400 undergraduates and over 2,500 graduate students in the Colleges/Schools of Liberal Arts, Science and Engineering, Business Administration, Communication and Fine Arts, Film and Television, Education, and Law. ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:00:02 +0100 862656 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/DnvRCFeYvx8/  Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett Just Two Things Somewhere in the rush to judgement and foolish reaction to Andrew Wylie’s deal with Amazon two major things have been overlooked. The first is that Agents have as much to lose from the ongoing disintermediation of publishing as publishers do. That has important implications for how we should think about Wylie’s deal and the ramifications of it. The second is that regardless of this deal the technology and the motivation exist to enable this ongoing disintermediation. If Wylie were to chose not to push it on, someone else would. IT IS UNSTOPPABLE. I want to explore those two ideas a little more. A little explanation: Agents & Power The first is not so obvious. After all, agents are central to one of the relationships that is a key driver in the industry. They own or mediate the author-publisher relationship. That makes them pretty powerful in the scheme of things. What’s more, they are clearly on the author’s side of that relationship and as an individual author gains power (if they are, for instance successful or critically acclaimed) so too the agents gain power. So the gradual shift of publishing power away from large publishers and towards established name authors and less powerful more fractured publishers (whose individual power is weak but whose collective power is potentially strong) agents’ position would appear to be stronger.       However the same disintermediation that threatens publishers threatens that relationship that is the core of the agents power. If they cannot provide the services that a powerful name author (or even a non-name author) requires, then that author is as likely to avoid the agent as they are to avoid a publisher. As the publishers weaken and the authors grow more powerful, the need for an agent to negotiate a deal becomes less pressing. ... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:32:06 +0100 862719 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/07/27/prototype-version-of-federal-register-2-0-is-now-available/ Via ResourceShelf. Note that Environment is a category and that each category has an RSS feed to which you can subscribe. Very nice. As we pointed out two weeks ago, the Federal Register 2.0 would debut today. The site is now live. After just a quick look it’s hard to believe that it’s the same type of content that looked so different 48 hours ago. We will have more to say after being able to spend some time using it. Access FederalRegister 2.0 It may be approved as an “official edition” sometime next year. Here’s the Official Announcement from the Government Printing Office (GPO) and National Archives (NARA) (PDF) This daily journal of government has provided the public with access to government information and federal regulations for the past 75 years. Federal Register 2.0 features a new layout that organizes the content by topics similar to a newspaper Web site. The site displays individual sections for Money, Environment, World, Science and Technology, Business and Industry, and Health and Public Welfare. The Web site has improved search and navigation tools to guide readers to the most popular topics and relevant documents. Users can submit comments and stay connected through social media. GPO coordinated the development aspects of the new Web site in collaboration with [NARA's] OFR [Office of the Federal Register]. GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys), a content management system and preservation repository, feeds content into Federal Register 2.0 and acts as the holder of the official content and archived information. Source: GPO See Also: GPO Video Intro (via YouTube) See Also: GPO Video About Federal Register 2.0 Design Winners See Also: Meet the New Federal Register (via Sunlight Labs Blog) See Also: New-look Federal Register online debuts (via FCW) (Source: Environmental News Bits) Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:06:13 +0100 862747 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/27/digital-preservation-the-philosophy-documentation-center-to-preserve-e-journals-in-portico/ From the Announcement: Portico is pleased to announce that it has entered into a preservation agreement with the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC), a non-profit aggregator and distributor of scholarly resources in applied ethics, philosophy, religious studies, classics, and related disciplines. PDC’s initial commitment will be to deposit 50 e-journals to the archive. Through this agreement with Portico, PDC ensures that these e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. As part of the agreement, PDC will make an annual contribution to Portico and has also named Portico as a mechanism to provide post-cancellation access to the titles committed to the archive. With the inclusion of these 50 e-journals, over 11,900 e-journals, 43,000 e-books and 10 d-collections from 115 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Further, nearly 15 million articles are currently preserved in Portico. See Also: Portico Facts & Figures. See Also: Complete List of Titles and Participating Publishers Source: Portico (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:01:40 +0100 862567 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/ob6C0wy8Twg/carl-e-lert-385.html CARL E-Lert # 385, July 23 2010 from Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Some of this week's items: Statistics Canada chief falls on sword over census; House committee [U.S.] to hold hearing on public access to publicly funded research; Billion-euro boost to EU science; Digital Preservation in the Canadian Landscape (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:04:40 +0100 862525 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/26/new-issue-online-international-journal-of-digital-curation-vol-5-no-1/ Articles in this New Issue of the Peer Reviewed Journal Include: + Designing Digital Preservation Solutions: A Risk Management-Based Approach José Barateiro, Gonçalo Antunes, Filipe Freitas, José Borbinha + Understanding the Information Requirements of Arts and Humanities Scholarship Agiatis Benardou, Panos Constantopoulos, Costis Dallas, Dimitris Gavrilis + Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories: TIPR Priscilla Caplan, William Kehoe, Joseph Pawletko + The Use of Quality Management Standards in Trustworthy Digital Archives Susanne Dobratz, Peter Rödig, Uwe M. Borghoff, Björn Rätzke, Astrid Schoger + Keeping the Game Alive: Evaluating Strategies for the Preservation of Console Video Games Mark Guttenbrunner, Christoph Becker, Andreas Rauber + A Framework for Software Preservation Brian Matthews, Arif Shaon, Juan Bicarregui, Catherine Jones + Using a Core Scientific Metadata Model in Large-Scale Facilities Brian Matthews, Shoaib Sufi, Damian Flannery, Laurent Lerusse, Tom Griffin, Michael Gleaves, Kerstin Kleese + Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network David Minor, Don Sutton, Ardys Kozbial, Brad Westbrook, Michael Burek, Michael Smorul + Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem? David S. H. Rosenthal Articles + An Emergent Micro-Services Approach to Digital Curation Infrastructure Stephen Abrams, John Kunze, David Loy + DMP Online: The Digital Curation Centre’s Web-based Tool for Creating, Maintaining and Exporting Data Management Plans Martin Donnelly, Sarah Jones, John W. Pattenden-Fail + Towards Smart Storage for Repository Preservation Services Steve Hitchcock, David Tarrant, Adrian Brown, Ben O’Steen, Neil Jefferies, Leslie Carr + A Framework for Distributed Preservation Workflows Rainer Schmidt, Ross King, Andrew Jackson, Carl Wilson, Fabian Steeg, Peter Melms Complete Table of Contents Source: IJDC (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:07:29 +0100 862422 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/26/prototype-version-of-federal-register-2-0-is-now-available/ As we pointed out two weeks ago, the Federal Register 2.0 would debut today. The site is now live. After just a quick look it’s hard to believe that it’s the same type of content that looked so different 48 hours ago. We will have more to say after being able to spend some time using it. Access FederalRegister 2.0 It may be approved as an “official edition” sometime next year. Here’s the Official Announcement from the Government Printing Office (GPO) and National Archives (NARA) (PDF) This daily journal of government has provided the public with access to government information and federal regulations for the past 75 years. Federal Register 2.0 features a new layout that organizes the content by topics similar to a newspaper Web site. The site displays individual sections for Money, Environment, World, Science and Technology, Business and Industry, and Health and Public Welfare. The Web site has improved search and navigation tools to guide readers to the most popular topics and relevant documents. Users can submit comments and stay connected through social media. GPO coordinated the development aspects of the new Web site in collaboration with [NARA's] OFR [Office of the Federal Register]. GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys), a content management system and preservation repository, feeds content into Federal Register 2.0 and acts as the holder of the official content and archived information. Source: GPO See Also: GPO Video Intro (via YouTube) See Also: GPO Video About Federal Register 2.0 Design Winners See Also: Meet the New Federal Register (via Sunlight Labs Blog) See Also: New-look Federal Register online debuts (via FCW) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:22:14 +0100 862423 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002119.html As existing practices evolve and new ones emerge it often takes time for the way in which we talk about them to settle down. There may be some interim terminological confusion. This has happened in our world with 'archive' for example. We can also see this happen with curation/curation/curator. In recent conversations, it seems to me that I hear overlapping senses radiating from three centres. The first is a traditional one to do with the creation of collections of cultural objects and the their selection, management and care throughout their lifecycle. Think of museum curators in this context for example, or the curatorial staff at the British Library. We often hear this sense extended to the creation and care of an exhibition. I and others have used the phrase curatorial traditions to refer to the different but related bodies of professional practice deployed in the museum, library, archive and related domains. The other two are newer and selectively emphasise core functions of the curatorial role suggested above. The second emphasises a preservation and stewardship role, acknowledging this as part of an overall management lifecycle. One sometimes hears this in a restricted version of 'data curation'. And preservation is a central aspect, for example, of the work of the Digital Curation Centre at Edinburgh University. The third emphasises the selection, organization and presentation function, and may be coming to be the most widely used sense in which curation is used. Here is a recent comment of Michael Cairns for example: In recent years content curation has emerged out of the wild, wild, west of 'mere' content. Sites such as The Huffington Post, Red State and Politico all represent new attempts to build audiences around curated content. While they appear to be successful, at the same time there are other sites (such as Associated Content and Demand Media) contributing to the morass of filler content that can plague the web users' experience. ... Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:34:18 +0100 862613 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/_C0nRONLaT4/ From the Article: The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are partnering with Wabash Valley Vision and Voices (WV3) to digitize more than 1,000 Civil War era items in an effort to preserve content of original documents and promote local renewed research as the nation prepares for the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Also partnering in the project are the Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library, the Vigo County Public Library and the Vigo County Historical Society. Group members plan to digitize field journals, letters, discharge papers, photographs, medals ribbons, canteens, uniforms and more. After the items are processed, they will be fully accessible for online research at www.visions.indstate.edu. By digitizing material, preservation of the often-fragile documents will be maintained. [Clip] The digitization of Civil War memorabilia is made possible by a Library Services and Technology Act Mini-Digitization Grant from the Indiana State Library. Access Wabash Valley Visions & Voices: A Digital Memory Project Via Resource Shelf Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:21:11 +0100 861963 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/24/william-faulkner-audio-archive-debuts-online-from-u-of-virginia/ From the Richmond Times Dispatch: When William Faulkner was writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, two English faculty members followed him around recording his numerous appearances on reel-to-reel tape. [Clip] As writer-in-residence at U.Va. in 1957 and 1958, Faulkner spoke to classes as well as university and community groups. About 40,000 feet of tapes of his readings and Q&A sessions were archived. The library began digitizing the tapes, which were in danger of deterioration, about a decade ago. Access “Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive” The archive contains about 28 hours of Faulkner’s talks. Content is browsable by date/participants/reading (if available) and also searchable by keyword. You’ll be searching transcripts of the recordings and then move to the snippet where those words are spoken. The Intro and Contexts section is excellent and is worth a read. Several audio clips are embedded into the text. Much More in this Announcement from U.Va.: The tapes owe their existence to English professors Frederick Gwynn and Joseph Blotner, who carried a reel-to-reel tape recorder to most of Faulkner’s appearances. (Most of the sessions took place in Rouss Hall in a windowless room that Faulkner called “the black hole of Calcutta.”) About 40,000 feet of tapes were archived, first by the English department and then by the U.Va. Library. More than a decade ago, the library staff began digitizing the tapes, which were in danger of deterioration. The archive is the result of years of work and a fortunate confluence of forces. Railton and Michael Plunkett, a fellow of the library’s Mary and David Harrison Institute for History, Literature and Culture and former director of special collections, received support from two library-based groups dedicated to digital scholarship at U.Va. ... Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:57:43 +0100 861967 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/24/digitization-and-databases-partnership-aims-to-digitize-civil-war-items/ From the Article: The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are partnering with Wabash Valley Vision and Voices (WV3) to digitize more than 1,000 Civil War era items in an effort to preserve content of original documents and promote local renewed research as the nation prepares for the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Also partnering in the project are the Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library, the Vigo County Public Library and the Vigo County Historical Society. Group members plan to digitize field journals, letters, discharge papers, photographs, medals ribbons, canteens, uniforms and more. After the items are processed, they will be fully accessible for online research at www.visions.indstate.edu. By digitizing material, preservation of the often-fragile documents will be maintained. [Clip] The digitization of Civil War memorabilia is made possible by a Library Services and Technology Act Mini-Digitization Grant from the Indiana State Library. Access Wabash Valley Visions & Voices: A Digital Memory Project Source: The Brazil (Indiana) Times (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:07:24 +0100 861969 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/22/new-podcast-from-lc-preserving-digital-video/ From the Summary: The latest Library of Congress Digital Preservation podcast, Linda Tadic offers practical solutions for archiving and preserving digital video. Tadic is an adjunct professor in New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program and executive director of Audiovisual Archive Network . In the podcast, she describes the lifespan and fragility of tape and DVD, how to move the essential video files from a camera or DVD onto a hard drive, which descriptions should accompany the video files and how to actively manage the files over time. Previously, Tadic managed the Digital Library at Home Box Office. She was also Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, Director of Operations for ARTstor and past President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. Runs 33 minutes and can be downloaded. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:33:55 +0100 861407 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/B6qaJRrXZc0/report-future-for-our-digital-memory-2.html We all know the digital preservation problem.  This four-page document outlines the strategic agenda, dual-axis approach, and the four closely related basic principles that the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD) believes can help address it.  The NCDD intends to develop a distributed national network for managing digital resources in the public sector.  "The network will be based on cooperation and collaboration between stakeholders, because the resources required by long‐term digital preservation exceed the means of most individual institutions."  The strategy itself is based on four principles:Each individual organisation that produces or archives digital objects is, in principle, responsible for organising long‐term accessStrengthening collaboration between domains: the NCDD Strengthening collaboration within domains: the network leadersStrengthening administrative collaborationFor more details, read A Future for our Digital Memory (2): Strategic Agenda 2010‐2013 for Long‐Term Access to Digital Resources.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861513 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/07/report-future-for-our-digital-memory-2.html We all know the digital preservation problem.  This four-page document outlines the strategic agenda, dual-axis approach, and the four closely related basic principles that the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD) believes can help address it.  The NCDD intends to develop a distributed national network for managing digital resources in the public sector.  "The network will be based on cooperation and collaboration between stakeholders, because the resources required by long‐term digital preservation exceed the means of most individual institutions."  The strategy itself is based on four principles:Each individual organisation that produces or archives digital objects is, in principle, responsible for organising long‐term accessStrengthening collaboration between domains: the NCDD Strengthening collaboration within domains: the network leadersStrengthening administrative collaborationFor more details, read A Future for our Digital Memory (2): Strategic Agenda 2010‐2013 for Long‐Term Access to Digital Resources.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861499 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7621 State: Washington, D.C. Announcement WC-10-08T www.wilsoncenter.org OPENING DATE: July 16, 2010 CLOSING DATE: July 30, 2010 POSITION: Catalog Specialist European Studies/History and Public Policy Program GRADE/SALARY: WW-0301-09 ($51,630 - $55,070 commensurate w/ experience) *This position may have promotion potential to the WW-11 level. LOCATION: WASHINGTON, D.C. WHO MAY APPLY: All qualified candidates may apply. DUTIES: The incumbent will work directly with the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Digital Archive and the CWIHP collection of archival documents to create, test, modify and/or implement the Project’s digital accession procedures. Duties include: developing a collection catalog for the CWIHP document collection, in particular by following OAI suggested-standards; testing and modifying existing CWIHP cataloging data as necessary; implementing the cataloging standard for all new accessions to CWIHP’s digital and paper collections; developing and implementing an appropriate workflow for accessioning new documents to the project collection. Performs other duties as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience performing duties directly related to this position such as developing and cataloging document collections and implementing archival programs. Applicants may substitute appropriate education, such as a master’s degree in library science or archival preservation from an accredited university for the required experience. SELECTIVE FACTORS (mandatory): 1. Knowledge of, or experience with, library science and cataloging methods. 2. Knowledge of, or experience with, digital archives and cataloging digital material. 3. Ability to communicate with and interact with external program partners. QUALITY RANKING FACTORS (desirable): 1. Ability to maintain a database. 2. Ability to conduct independent historical research. 3. Ability to write and edit for publication. 4. ... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:30:02 +0100 861242 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15374 Curator of The Dorot Jewish Division (The New York Public Library) Reporting to the Head of Collection Development, the Curator of the Dorot Jewish Division is responsible for developing, explicating and managing the Library’s Judaica collection in collaboration with staff throughout the Library. -Builds on the Library’s unique collection strengths in both traditional and new media formats. -Coordinates new acquisitions or gifts of special collection material with the Rare Books Curator or staff in other collections. -Works closely with others to manage the acquisitions budget. -Participates in the ongoing evaluation and assessment of the collection to identify core collection strengths and areas of overlap with key academic library partners. ... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:30:05 +0100 861224 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/21/new-issue-international-preservation-news-mobile-web-training-in-digital-age-and-e-learning-are-some-of-the-topics-discussed/ Access Full Text of Issue No. 51 (August 2010; 40 pages; PDF) Focus #1 Training in the Digital Age Focus #2 E-learning Experiences in Preservation Articles Include: Learning in the Age of Digital Networks by Chris Jones and Niall Sclater Page 6 Virtual Libraries as Virtual Learning Spaces by Jane Secker Page 11 The Challenges & Promise of Mobile Technology by Joe Murphy Page 16 E-learning Experiences in Preservation The On Line Preventive Conservation MA at Northumbria University by A. Jean E. Brown Page 19 Remote Training Program for Preservation and Conservation Provided by the National Diet Library by Noriko Nakamura Page 24 E-Mergency, Virtual Learning for the Training in Emergency Planning for Libraries and Archives by Maria Barbara Bertini and Simona Budassi Page 27 Source: IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation Access Full Text of Issue No. 51 (August 2010; 40 pages: PDF) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:16:31 +0100 861312 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=LOC_and_Partners_Preserving_the_Internet This week in Washington, DC, the Library of Congress is gathering its "Digital Preservation Partners" for a three-day session -- one of a number of s (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:00:06 +0100 861171 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=808 The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library (HSL) seeks an energetic, innovative, service-oriented Electronic Resources Librarian (ERL). The successful candidate will manage the access, maintenance, and preservation of digital information resources. Duties of the ERL include troubleshooting user access, ensuring holdings accuracy, communicating with vendors, maintaining an electronic resources management system, producing statistics and usage reports, management of a small print journal collection, and supervision of the library’s digitization projects.For more information about the position, the Health Sciences Library, and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, please see http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu/jobs/. Review of applications will begin August 15 and continue until October 1. To apply, please see http://www.jobsatcu.com , posting #810573.  The University of Colorado is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment. Questions should be directed to debra.silva@ucdenver.edu. (Source: NASIG Jobs) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:04:55 +0100 862260 http://lisnews.org/loc_and_partners_preserving_internet This week in Washington, DC, the Library of Congress is gathering its "Digital Preservation Partners" for a three-day session -- one of a number of such meetings the library has been holding under a broad initiative called the "National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program." Its multi-year mission is "to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations." It's what Dan Gillmor of Salon calls a non-trivial task, for all kinds of technical, social and legal reasons. But it's about as important for our future as anything I can imagine. We are creating vast amounts of information, and a lot of it is not just worth preserving but downright essential to save. Gillmor's role this week, and at a workshop he joined last year, is to be thinking about the news. (Source: LISNews.org) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:46:00 +0100 860925 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/19/institutional-repository-librarian-at-boston-university/ Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library is recruiting an Institutional Repository Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Manage the Boston University Digital Common, Boston University’s institutional repository, including oversight of the repository, coordination with the Information Services and Technology (IS&T) staff that provides primary systems support for the hardware and software, outreach to faculty, content recruitment, documentation, publicity materials, training and supervision of support staff, and developing assessment measures for the repository's impact. Work with the Institutional Repository Steering Committee and with other staff to define and implement repository policies, workflows, and capabilities and with the AUL and IS&T staff to develop effective digital preservation policies and procedures. Responsible for ensuring that the Digital Common programs align with the needs of the BU community and that BU faculty, students, and staff are aware of and know how to utilize BU Digital Common services. Collaborate with the other department heads and managers on the Digital Initiatives & Open Access Team and with senior managers on the Library’s other two teams, the Graduate & Research Services and Undergraduate & Distance Services, to implement initiatives consistent with the Library's strategic plan. (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861415 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16596 Title: Head of Digital Programs Department: Frost Library Type: Full Time Application due: [Applications accepted until position filled] Pay description: Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications Amherst College seeks a creative and motivated individual to lead the library's efforts to produce, gather, organize, and disseminate digital content useful to the curriculum, in need of preservation, or unique to the College and of use to the larger scholarly community. We seek candidates with a history of project planning and management, a commitment to collegial decision-making, a talent for empowering colleagues, and a penchant for pushing the envelope. To view the complete job description, please click https://www.amherst.edu/library/about/jobs. A review of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. Minimum qualifications: Master's degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association or foreign equivalent required; 3-5 years academic library e (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861081 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/g1MLgNY1GDU/ Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library is recruiting an Institutional Repository Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Manage the Boston University Digital Common, Boston University’s institutional repository, including oversight of the repository, coordination with the Information Services and Technology (IS&T) staff that provides primary systems support for the hardware and software, outreach to faculty, content recruitment, documentation, publicity materials, training and supervision of support staff, and developing assessment measures for the repository's impact. Work with the Institutional Repository Steering Committee and with other staff to define and implement repository policies, workflows, and capabilities and with the AUL and IS&T staff to develop effective digital preservation policies and procedures. Responsible for ensuring that the Digital Common programs align with the needs of the BU community and that BU faculty, students, and staff are aware of and know how to utilize BU Digital Common services. Collaborate with the other department heads and managers on the Digital Initiatives & Open Access Team and with senior managers on the Library’s other two teams, the Graduate & Research Services and Undergraduate & Distance Services, to implement initiatives consistent with the Library's strategic plan. (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:02:42 +0100 861183 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/18/preserving-digital-public-television-final-report/ The NDIIPP-funded Preserving Digital Public Television project has released Preserving Digital Public Television: Final Report. Here's an excerpt: The goals of the PDPTV project were to: Design and build a prototype preservation repository for born-digital public television content; Develop a set of standards for metadata, file and encoding formats, and production workflow practices; Recommend selection criteria for long-term retention; Examine issues of long-term content accessibility and methods for sustaining digital preservation of public television materials, including IP concerns. Introduce the importance of digital preservation to the public broadcasting community. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861421 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/loInt_RhiuQ/ The NDIIPP-funded Preserving Digital Public Television project has released Preserving Digital Public Television: Final Report. Here's an excerpt: The goals of the PDPTV project were to: Design and build a prototype preservation repository for born-digital public television content; Develop a set of standards for metadata, file and encoding formats, and production workflow practices; Recommend selection criteria for long-term retention; Examine issues of long-term content accessibility and methods for sustaining digital preservation of public television materials, including IP concerns. Introduce the importance of digital preservation to the public broadcasting community. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:01:18 +0100 861189 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/18/last-weeks-digitalkoans-tweets-2010-07-18/ Library digitizing more than books [University of Illinois] http://icio.us/lvw0zs # Indiana Libraries [journal] goes Open Access! http://icio.us/1vvqny # YouTube's Three Strikes Rule Hits Again; Dance Company Has Over 300 Videos Taken Down http://icio.us/d02se2 # ACTA Coming Down to Fight Between U.S. and Europe http://icio.us/530av2 # EU Authorities: Implementation of Net Surveillance Directive Is Unlawful http://icio.us/g32dd5 # CERN supports Creative Commons http://icio.us/50hpnb # MELIBEA: Directory and Validator of Open Access Policies http://bit.ly/brr5tk # Web Services Developer at University of Maryland, College Park http://bit.ly/bvDAqh # GPO Hires Its First Preservation Librarian http://bit.ly/a896Fj # Head of Digital Media and Library Technologies at Dartmouth College http://bit.ly/dudlFI # Google Makes 12 Digital Humanities Research Awards http://bit.ly/czJYut # Digital Preservation: PARSE.Insight Presentations and Report http://bit.ly/c4g1nh # Coordinator II at University of Tennessee, Knoxville http://bit.ly/bm7O9N # Research Data Management: Incremental Project Releases Scoping Study And Implementation Plan http://bit.ly/cLckmV # Associate Director, SULAIR Enterprise Systems & Programming at Stanford University http://bit.ly/djZJSi # Mobile Access 2010 http://bit.ly/9T9fic # RIAA Spent $17.6 Million In Lawsuits… To Get $391,000 In Settlements? http://icio.us/ux3tng # IP Owners oppose ACTA http://icio.us/yiyshc # The next domino: SIU follows UC in opposing NPG subscription increases, urging open access alternatives http://icio.us/oragnv # Post-Publication Review: Does It Add Anything New and Useful? http://icio.us/wauv5m # Easing into ebooks http://icio.us/v5aah3 # LSU Libraries' Losses with LOUIS Funding Cuts http://icio.us/pxiehq # E-Books Will Make Up Majority of Saint Leo U.'s Library Come Fall http://icio.us/gvqcii # OCLC Joins the Directory of Open Access Journals http://icio. ... Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:36:03 +0100 862208 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/18/audio-available-for-centuries-records-management-preservation/ This two hour radio interview (it includes commercials) aired on Federal News Radio. You can listen online or download the program as two mp3 files. Access the Program From a Text Summary: Today’s In Depth Conversation focused on three records management professionals who deal with digital records management and preservation every day. Kevin De Vorsey, Electronic Formats specialist in the Modern Records Program at the National Archives; Bill Lefurgy, Digital Initiatives Project Manager in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress; and Mike Wash, Chief Information Officer at the Government Printing Office, joined me today to talk about some of the challenges, rewards, and advantages of digital records management and preservation. [Clip] The digital records effort in government isn’t new, as we were reminded by Bill Lefurgy. “The Library [of Congress] embarked on a pretty early digitization activity, starting in the late 1980s, to explore technology as it existed at that point. We’re talking about the early days of CD-ROM; there were some experiments with Laser Disc. But it was all about using the existing technology to make digital copies of really significant materials. The breakthrough came with the Internet. Up until that point, the Library had digitized a lot of material, and was distributing that material to schools and libraries on CD-ROM.” As more records are born digital rather than being converted to digital, finding a standard for those records as they’re created is critical to being able to manage them well into the future. For the GPO’s Mike Wash, that format is XML. “For us, the solution is to get [the content] into a managed content system, in a form that is well documented. ... Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:23:01 +0100 860565 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/18/what-is-the-center-for-research-libraries-two-recent-crl-news-items/ An important institution for “hundreds of research libraries” is located at 6050 South Kenwood Avenue in Chicago, not far from the Museum of Science and Industry and the University of Chicago. Sean O’Connor on Examiner.com provides an overview of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). [CRL] serves a consortium of hundreds of research libraries, mainly college and university libraries, amongst which it circulates 3,000,000 volumes of “rare research materials.” [Clip] In March of 1949, it was founded as the Midwest Inter-Library Center (MILC) by the founding ten consortium members: the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois, the State University of Iowa, Indiana University, the University of Kansas, Michigan State College, the University of Minnesota, and Purdue University. [Clip] Initially the MILC’s chief function was to accept, store, and process monographs, journals, college textbooks and catalogs, dissertations, state documents, and other materials deposited by member universities. The CRL’s present collection of more than 5,000,000 items came about through subsequent acquisitions that supplemented those original research materials. Many of the materials that were originally deposited were thought to have outlived their usefulness by donors, yet nonetheless were considered worth retaining for historiographic purposes. [Clip] In 1965, the Mid-West Inter-Library Center became an organization of national scope, with a new name: the Center for Research Libraries. Access the Complete Article In Other Center for Research Libraries News: 1. CRL Improves Online Catalog Redesigned CRL online catalog, based on suggestions from the recent usability study. It features an easier-to-use interface and highlights like Focus on Global Resources newsletter articles, as well as information on research consultations, how to borrow CRL materials, and more: http://catalog. ... Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:46:43 +0100 860567 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/D30BqRzZnbk/ Library digitizing more than books [University of Illinois] http://icio.us/lvw0zs # Indiana Libraries [journal] goes Open Access! http://icio.us/1vvqny # YouTube's Three Strikes Rule Hits Again; Dance Company Has Over 300 Videos Taken Down http://icio.us/d02se2 # ACTA Coming Down to Fight Between U.S. and Europe http://icio.us/530av2 # EU Authorities: Implementation of Net Surveillance Directive Is Unlawful http://icio.us/g32dd5 # CERN supports Creative Commons http://icio.us/50hpnb # MELIBEA: Directory and Validator of Open Access Policies http://bit.ly/brr5tk # Web Services Developer at University of Maryland, College Park http://bit.ly/bvDAqh # GPO Hires Its First Preservation Librarian http://bit.ly/a896Fj # Head of Digital Media and Library Technologies at Dartmouth College http://bit.ly/dudlFI # Google Makes 12 Digital Humanities Research Awards http://bit.ly/czJYut # Digital Preservation: PARSE.Insight Presentations and Report http://bit.ly/c4g1nh # Coordinator II at University of Tennessee, Knoxville http://bit.ly/bm7O9N # Research Data Management: Incremental Project Releases Scoping Study And Implementation Plan http://bit.ly/cLckmV # Associate Director, SULAIR Enterprise Systems & Programming at Stanford University http://bit.ly/djZJSi # Mobile Access 2010 http://bit.ly/9T9fic # RIAA Spent $17.6 Million In Lawsuits… To Get $391,000 In Settlements? http://icio.us/ux3tng # IP Owners oppose ACTA http://icio.us/yiyshc # The next domino: SIU follows UC in opposing NPG subscription increases, urging open access alternatives http://icio.us/oragnv # Post-Publication Review: Does It Add Anything New and Useful? http://icio.us/wauv5m # Easing into ebooks http://icio.us/v5aah3 # LSU Libraries' Losses with LOUIS Funding Cuts http://icio.us/pxiehq # E-Books Will Make Up Majority of Saint Leo U.'s Library Come Fall http://icio.us/gvqcii # OCLC Joins the Directory of Open Access Journals http://icio. ... Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0100 861190 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/18/last-weeks-digitalkoans-tweets-2010-07-18/ Library digitizing more than books [University of Illinois] http://icio.us/lvw0zs # Indiana Libraries [journal] goes Open Access! http://icio.us/1vvqny # YouTube's Three Strikes Rule Hits Again; Dance Company Has Over 300 Videos Taken Down http://icio.us/d02se2 # ACTA Coming Down to Fight Between U.S. and Europe http://icio.us/530av2 # EU Authorities: Implementation of Net Surveillance Directive Is Unlawful http://icio.us/g32dd5 # CERN supports Creative Commons http://icio.us/50hpnb # MELIBEA: Directory and Validator of Open Access Policies http://bit.ly/brr5tk # Web Services Developer at University of Maryland, College Park http://bit.ly/bvDAqh # GPO Hires Its First Preservation Librarian http://bit.ly/a896Fj # Head of Digital Media and Library Technologies at Dartmouth College http://bit.ly/dudlFI # Google Makes 12 Digital Humanities Research Awards http://bit.ly/czJYut # Digital Preservation: PARSE.Insight Presentations and Report http://bit.ly/c4g1nh # Coordinator II at University of Tennessee, Knoxville http://bit.ly/bm7O9N # Research Data Management: Incremental Project Releases Scoping Study And Implementation Plan http://bit.ly/cLckmV # Associate Director, SULAIR Enterprise Systems & Programming at Stanford University http://bit.ly/djZJSi # Mobile Access 2010 http://bit.ly/9T9fic # RIAA Spent $17.6 Million In Lawsuits… To Get $391,000 In Settlements? http://icio.us/ux3tng # IP Owners oppose ACTA http://icio.us/yiyshc # The next domino: SIU follows UC in opposing NPG subscription increases, urging open access alternatives http://icio.us/oragnv # Post-Publication Review: Does It Add Anything New and Useful? http://icio.us/wauv5m # Easing into ebooks http://icio.us/v5aah3 # LSU Libraries' Losses with LOUIS Funding Cuts http://icio.us/pxiehq # E-Books Will Make Up Majority of Saint Leo U.'s Library Come Fall http://icio.us/gvqcii # OCLC Joins the Directory of Open Access Journals http://icio. ... Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861422 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/07/call-for-participation-premis.html Call for participation -- PREMIS Implementation FairPREMIS Implementation Fair 2010: Announcement and Call for Presenters An iPRES 2010 workshop sponsored by the Library of CongressWednesday, 22 September, 12:00-18:00. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek You are invited to participate in the PREMIS Implementation Fair, a workshop held in association with the 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010) in Vienna.  The Implementation Fair will be an opportunity to:•    give implementers of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata an opportunity to meet with one another and discuss implementation issues;•    inform the community of implementers of the latest PREMIS updates, tools, and Editorial Committee activities;•    share information about projects, problems and solutions.There will be ample time in the agenda for both presentations and open group discussions.  If you would like to present on a topic or project, please contact us.For more information, agenda and registration, see the complete announcement at http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/premis-implementation-fair2010.html. (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 860593 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/15/gpo-hires-its-first-preservation-librarian/ The U.S. Government Printing Office has hired its first preservation librarian, David Walls. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is continuing its commitment to preserving the documents of our democracy by establishing the agency’s first preservation librarian position. GPO’s preservation librarian will be tasked with updating the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) collection management plan for the preservation of federal government documents. David Walls will serve as GPO’s first preservation librarian; he is a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and comes to the agency from Yale University where he worked as a preservation librarian for 12 years. While at Yale, Walls established practices for the digital conversion of library and special collection materials. Digital preservation is an ongoing initiative for GPO. In 2009, the agency launched GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys), a content management system, preservation repository and advanced search engine that provides the public with permanent public access to federal government information. GPO is also a member of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a worldwide digital preservation alliance that collaborates with libraries and organizations on preservation initiatives. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859933 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/5YvzCPijnSo/ The U.S. Government Printing Office has hired its first preservation librarian, David Walls. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is continuing its commitment to preserving the documents of our democracy by establishing the agency’s first preservation librarian position. GPO’s preservation librarian will be tasked with updating the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) collection management plan for the preservation of federal government documents. David Walls will serve as GPO’s first preservation librarian; he is a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and comes to the agency from Yale University where he worked as a preservation librarian for 12 years. While at Yale, Walls established practices for the digital conversion of library and special collection materials. Digital preservation is an ongoing initiative for GPO. In 2009, the agency launched GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys), a content management system, preservation repository and advanced search engine that provides the public with permanent public access to federal government information. GPO is also a member of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a worldwide digital preservation alliance that collaborates with libraries and organizations on preservation initiatives. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:03:04 +0100 861193 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/15/pilot-database-now-onlinesearchable-as-u-of-kentucky-libraries-use-hybrid-approach-to-preserve-historic-horse-racing-newspapers/ Keeneland, one of America’s most famous horse racing tracks (they’re also known horse sales), located in Lexington, Kentucky, has partnered with the University of Kentucky Libraries to preserve Keeneland’s collection of the Daily Racing Form (DRF, a horse racing newspaper). The collection was donated in 2000 and includes just about every edition of the DRF, about eleven million pages. From the Announcement: In 2007, Keeneland Library approached UK Libraries to design a preservation plan for Keeneland’s 3,500 volume archive of the Daily Racing Form and its former publication, The Morning Telegraph. Through funding from Keeneland and research by UK Libraries, a pilot project, under the direction of Becky Ryder, was launched to develop ways to preserve and digitize a sample of the fragile Daily Racing Form issues from 1896 to 1991. As part of the pilot project, issues of the Daily Racing Form previously archived in bound books had to be separated and carefully evaluated based on condition and page order. After physical preparation of the newspaper’s pages, UK Libraries staff digitized the issues utilizing a hybrid technique that combined microfilm and digital imaging. The new digital images were then processed through software programs that transform images into keyword searchable text to create a searchable online archive of 132,000 pages and 549,000 articles. Researchers can find information about horses, people, farms, tracks and much more. [The pilot project took two years to complete]. To view archives from the pilot project for the Daily Racing Form, visit online at www.keeneland.com/drfarchives. [Clip] “By employing a hybrid approach that includes conservation, microfilm and digital access, we created assets that will parlay their value, over and over, into the future,” said Ryder, head of Preservation Services at UK Libraries. ... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:06:53 +0100 859832 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/15/final-report-preserving-digital-television-project-funded-by-library-of-congress-ndiipp/ Access the Final Report (48 pages; PDF) Additional Materials via Project Web Site Prepared by Nan Rubin From a Blog Post: After seven years of researching, testing, developing, analyzing, promoting and sharing, it is time to close out the Library of Congress-funded NDIIPP project Preserving Digital Public Television. [Clip] This project was enormously successful. We produced a significant body of reports; published articles in key journals and other publication; and made popular presentations at dozens of conferences, symposia and special events in the U.S, Canada and abroad. Much to our surprise, this project emerged as a respected leader nationally and internationally in approaching technology issues relating to preserving digital video. Most importantly, by promoting the importance of digital preservation to public broadcasting, we were instrumental in helping to create the American Archive, a new initiative at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is its first genuine investment in long-term preservation and access of U.S. public radio and television programming. Since Preserving Digital Public Television began, broadcasting has shed its analog systems and moved completely into a digital universe. This project has been able to impress on the public television system the message that digital preservation is not an optional “add-on” cost, but a requirement for any future use of the materials. In this, the project has been instrumental in transforming an attitude of indifference to one that acknowledges the value of properly managing our collective archival holdings. From Page Five of the Final Report: Together, WNET, WGBH, PBS and NYU organized Preserving Digital Public Television (PDPTV) [http://wwwthirteen.org/ptvdigitalarchive/] as a collaboration to introduce digital preservation issues and practices to the public television system. ... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:02:36 +0100 859838 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/14/digital-preservation-parse-insight-presentations-and-report/ PARSE.Insight (Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe) has released several presentations and reports. Audit and Certification: Towards an Ecology of Repositories Insight into Digital Preservation of Research Output in Europe Science Data Infrastructure Roadmap What We Learnt from PARSE.Insight (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859936 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/sBAQmBgBdHs/ PARSE.Insight (Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe) has released several presentations and reports. Audit and Certification: Towards an Ecology of Repositories Insight into Digital Preservation of Research Output in Europe Science Data Infrastructure Roadmap What We Learnt from PARSE.Insight (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:05:31 +0100 859715 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/owVgQbpx_Fw/ The Incremental Project has released the Scoping Study And Implementation Plan. The Cambridge University Library and Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow jointly run the project. Here's a brief description of the project from its home page: The project is a first step in improving and facilitating the day-to-day and long-term management of research data in higher education institutions (HEI's). We aim to increase researchers’ capacity and motivation for managing their digital research data, using existing tools and resources where possible and working to identify and fill gaps where additional tailored support and guidance is required. We aim to take a bottom-up approach, consulting a diverse set of researchers in each stage of the project. Read more about it at "Scoping Study and Implementation Plan Released." (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:03:55 +0100 859717 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/Isy6i3g8-wI/novo-numero-do-international-journal-on.html Sumário dos artigos publicados no v. 10, n. 4, 2010:• Systematic planning for digital preservation: evaluating potential strategies and building preservation plans. Christoph Becker, Hannes Kulovits, Mark Guttenbrunner, Stephan Strodl, Andreas Rauber & Hans Hofman. p. 133-157Dependency management for digital preservation using semantic web technologies. Yannis Marketakis & Yannis Tzitzikas. p. 159-177.• Semantic Web enabled digital repositories. Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Geórgia D. Solomou, Andreas D. Alexopoulos & Theodore S. Papatheodorou. p. 179-199.• Methodologies and tools for audio digital archives. Nicola Orio, Lauro Snidaro, Sergio Canazza & Gian Luca Foresti. p. 201-220. (Source: A "INFORMAÇÃO") Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:39:00 +0100 859736 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3045 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 14, 2010 No. 10-23 MEDIA CONTACT: GARY SOMERSET 202.512.1957, 202.355.3997 cell gsomerset@gpo.gov GPO ESTABLISHES FIRST PRESERVATION LIBRARIAN POSITION WASHINGTON-The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is continuing its commitment to preserving the documents of our democracy by establishing the agency's first preservation librarian position. GPO's preservation librarian will be tasked with updating the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) collection management plan for the preservation of federal government documents. David Walls will serve as GPO's first preservation librarian; he is a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and comes to the agency from Yale University where he worked as a preservation librarian for 12 years. While at Yale, Walls established practices for the digital conversion of library and special collection materials. Digital preservation is an ongoing initiative for GPO. In 2009, the agency launched GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys), a content management system, preservation repository and advanced search engine that provides the public with permanent public access to federal government information. GPO is also a member of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a worldwide digital preservation alliance that collaborates with libraries and organizations on preservation initiatives. Link to FDsys: www.fdsys.gov "David's experience and expertise in preservation will be an asset to GPO and its mission of Keeping America Informed," said Acting Superintendent of Documents Ric Davis. "This is an important position for the agency as we work with the library community on the continuing transition to a primarily electronic FDLP, and ensure that the content can be migrated in the future to guarantee current and permanent public access to federal government information. ... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:56:20 +0100 859508 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/14/digital-preservation-u-s-government-printing-office-gpo-hires-their-first-preservation-librarian-new-fdsys-collections-available/ From a GPO Announcement (PDF): U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is continuing its commitment to preserving the documents of our democracy by establishing the agency’s first preservation librarian position. GPO’s preservation librarian will be tasked with updating the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) collection management plan for the preservation of federal government documents. David Walls will serve as GPO’s first preservation librarian; he is a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and comes to the agency from Yale University where he worked as a preservation librarian for 12 years. While at Yale, Walls established practices for the digital conversion of library and special collection materials. Digital preservation is an ongoing initiative for GPO. [Clip] They’re members of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a worldwide digital preservation alliance that collaborates with libraries and organizations on preservation initiatives. “David’s experience and expertise in preservation will be an asset to GPO and its mission of Keeping America Informed,” said Acting Superintendent of Documents Ric Davis. “This is an important position for the agency as we work with the library community on the continuing transition to a primarily electronic FDLP, and ensure that the content can be migrated in the future to guarantee current and permanent public access to federal government information.” Source: GPO and in other gov docs news… In the past week the following collections have been added to FDSYS: + The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (1992 to 2008) + U.S. ... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:53:45 +0100 859572 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3044 Last month, David Rosenthal, chief scientist on the LOCKSS Project, gave the keynote address entitled Stepping Twice Into The Same River to the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) (or just ICDL/ICADL!) in Queensland, Australia. It was wide-ranging, thoughtful and provocative -- in short everything you'd want in a keynote to a major international digital library conference. David hit on publishers and the publishing industry and practices, scholarly communication, digital preservation, the intersection between technology and economics and the current state and future of libraries. He makes a great argument that the upheaval and disruption currently affecting the 3 parallel fields of publishing, libraries, and archives (what he terms "technological and economic discontinuity") creates the perfect opportunity for radical technological change toward a collaborative archival academic cloud in order to define the future of information access and preservation (at least in terms of universities and scholarly communication) in beneficial and long-term sustainable ways. Here are some main points that I gleaned from David's presentation: publishers are in a similar boat to news organizations and have sacrificed long-term viability for short term economic gain -- and that's going to ultimately destroy them; libraries and archives need to focus their preservation goals on dynamic services rather than the static content: "...it's less about what we are preserving and more about how preserved information is accessed. Less about HTML and other formats, and more about HTTP and other protocols. The reason is that static information is a degenerate case of dynamic information; a system designed for dynamic information can easily handle static information. The converse isn't true. ... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:07:09 +0100 859509 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/07/call-for-articles-ideas-journal-call.html Call for articles & ideas - Journal call for papers from Library Hi Tech NewsLibrary Hi Tech News (LHTN), is actively seeking submissions. LHTN is an established (1984+) print and online monthly journal that quickly publishes articles of interest to our international readership. The journal’s major focus is on developments in library technology. Although not formally peer reviewed, LHTN is indexed in Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Scopus, INSPEC, Current Index to Journals in Education and others. Published by Emerald Publishing Group, LHTN is interested in articles of varying lengths, reports from relevant conferences, and case studies of library use of technology. The editors will work with authors that are new to LIS publishing, and those who are seeking outlets for reporting on practical uses of IT in libraries. Publishing your article in LHTN can be “a place to start,” analogous to a “poster session in print” and does not preclude publishing a more fulsome piece in a peer-reviewed journal at a later date. Readers consider LHTN the source to hear what’s coming next in terms of technology development for academic and public libraries. ... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 860596 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/13/digital-collections-archivist-at-american-university-in-cairo/ The American University in Cairo is recruiting a Digital Collections Archivist. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Reporting to the University Archivist, the DCA manages AUC’s Digital Archive and Research Repository (DSpace-based) including supervising all digital holdings (photographs, video, audio files), setting standards for digital preservation and metadata, providing training for staff, collaborating on development, policies, and storage space matters for the repository with other university units, managing the ingest of electronic theses, dissertations (ETDs) and faculty publications and coordinating policies and procedures with academic administration, computing, student affairs and other university units. The position also oversees the encoding of archival finding aids (XML, EAD), creates MARC records using Innovative Interfaces Millenium Metadata Builder, manages ArchiveIt subscription service, the RBSCL’s website, news blog, online subject guides, and social media sites. There will also be opportunities to collaborate on fundraising efforts, mounting exhibitions, and other RBSCL-wide tasks. (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859944 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/07/canadian-library-association-submission.html National consultations to help the Canadian government formulate a digital economy strategy wrapped up this week. It is possible to see the many submissions made on the consultation website.The Canadian Library Association was one of the organizations that sent in a submission. It looks at access issues, digital preservation, digital locks in the context of copyright reform, the availability of broadband services, net neutrality, and open access to public sector information and data and to publicly-funded research:"We believe that Canada’s libraries can and should play an important role in the development of a stronger digital economy. At the same time, we feel that Improving Canada’s Digital Advantage [the government consultation paper] places too little emphasis on individual Canadians as consumers of digital services and on the value of content and roadmaps to assist Canadians.""The Canadian Library Association has long maintained that Canada needs to place as much emphasis on the content of the broadband highway it is creating as it does on the highway itself. If not, Canada runs the risk that the highway we build will direct Canadians to other countries and to other economies." (Source: Library Boy) Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859684 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/ZFnJXjhNhT4/ The American University in Cairo is recruiting a Digital Collections Archivist. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Reporting to the University Archivist, the DCA manages AUC’s Digital Archive and Research Repository (DSpace-based) including supervising all digital holdings (photographs, video, audio files), setting standards for digital preservation and metadata, providing training for staff, collaborating on development, policies, and storage space matters for the repository with other university units, managing the ingest of electronic theses, dissertations (ETDs) and faculty publications and coordinating policies and procedures with academic administration, computing, student affairs and other university units. The position also oversees the encoding of archival finding aids (XML, EAD), creates MARC records using Innovative Interfaces Millenium Metadata Builder, manages ArchiveIt subscription service, the RBSCL’s website, news blog, online subject guides, and social media sites. There will also be opportunities to collaborate on fundraising efforts, mounting exhibitions, and other RBSCL-wide tasks. (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:02:58 +0100 859723 http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/international-association-of-scientific.html The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, or STM - the body that represents primarily the highly profitable sector of scholarly publishing - has issued the "STM submission on “Recommendations for implementation of Open Access in Denmark”. Following are some comments on this submission.HighlightsIn brief: STM makes a case for a EU benefiting from balance of trade. Denmark may wish to consider whether it is a supplier to other countries of this balance, and whether this situation risks loss of Danish-funded research. This is the situation for the vast majority of countries in the world. STM greatly overstates their contributions to scholarly publishing, for example claiming to "underwrite the creation" of scientific information. This is patent nonsense; for a publicly funded research article, it is the public funder, university and scholarly researcher / author who create the information. STM claims to have taken on the role of preservation; it would be bizarre indeed for the private sector to take on this role. STM bases their economic case on the high cost of moving to the online environment in the 1990's. Any industry that has not noticed the tremendous decrease in costs of information technology in the last two decades is rather obviously out of touch. Speaking of out of touch, STM claims to have been involved with scholarly publishing for 350 years. In reality, almost all scholarly publishing was in the hands of the not-for-profit sector until after the second world war, and today, the open access publishing community, not at all mentioned in this letter, is sizable and growing, with over 5,000 fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals listed in DOAJ, which is growing by more than 2 titles per day.Details STM:STM makes a "Euro 3 billion contribution to the EU’s balance of trade". ... Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859738 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/07/video-team-digital-preservation-and.html The folks at WePreserve and Planets have released their fourth Team Digital Preservation film (below). WePreserve and Planets are allowing you to of this and their other animations as part of your own work to raise awareness and understanding about digital preservation. Current are available on their YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/wepreservePlanets Additional animations will be released there in the future.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859226 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/-uEoFb0Gdog/video-team-digital-preservation-and.html The folks at WePreserve and Planets have released their fourth Team Digital Preservation film (below). WePreserve and Planets are allowing you to of this and their other animations as part of your own work to raise awareness and understanding about digital preservation. Current are available on their YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/wepreservePlanets Additional animations will be released there in the future.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859147 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/YEypcxrBnPI/ The JISC-funded PoWR project has releasd A Guide to Web Preservation. Here's an excerpt: The [JISC PoWR] project handbook was published in November 2008. Since then we have seen a growing awareness of the importance of digital preservation in general and in the preservation of web resources (including web pages, web-based applications and websites) in particular. The current economic crisis and the expected cuts across public sector organisations mean that a decade of growth and optimism is now over – instead we can expect to see reduced levels of funding available within the sector which will have an impact on the networked services which are used to support teaching and learning and research activities. The need to manage the implications of these cutbacks is likely to result in a renewed interest in digital preservation. We are therefore pleased to be able to publish this new guide, based on the original PoWR: The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook, which provides practical advice to practitioners and policy makers responsible for the provision of web services. (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:03:19 +0100 859727 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=794 As usual, I’m a little late to the party. Glancing at the ACRL Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries (published in the June C&CL News) I realized that these ten items relate in one way or another to work we are doing on behalf of the RLG Partnership. (I shouldn’t be too surprised that the list resonates since my colleague Lynn Silipigni Connaway is a member of the committee that put the list together). The list is in alphabetical order, rather than ranked order. I’ve abbreviated the list and included my own commentary. 1. Academic library collection growth is driven by patron demand and will include new resource types. … Increasingly, libraries are acquiring local collections and unique materials … These materials may include special collections, university archives, and/or the scholarly output of faculty and students. Under the rubric of “Mobilizing Unique Materials,” we have a suite of projects dedicated to surfacing the rare and unique. Our flagship project in this area is the Survey on Special Collections and Archives, which will identify trends and norms, and will help set the stage for future action. Work on Sharing Special Collections, our report on Barriers to using EAD, and other projects, are also under this umbrella. We also have an upcoming symposium on the role of special collections in a digital age (October 12-13, Oxford, UK) Libraries also recognize the need to collect, preserve, and provide access to digital datasets. … Our data curation activity is a collaboration between RLG Partners and LIBER members, coordinated by my colleague John MacColl. 2. Budget challenges will continue and libraries will evolve as a result. … Budget challenges (which is a nice way of putting it) are just one of a number of risk factors identified and discussed in our recent “risk report” (Research Libraries, Risk and Systematic Change [pdf]) 3. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:44:12 +0100 858152 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/08/the-julyaugust-2010-71-7-issue-of-college-and-research-library-news-crl-news-is-now-available/ Access C&RL News July/August 2010 (71.7) (Free) All Articles Linked from Table of Contents In HTML or PDF. Features + Old wine in new skins: Thoughts on academic library Web guides by Ron Gilmour + Lessons from the fiction desk: Becoming a better academic librarian at the public library by Katie Maier-O’Shea + Mobbing in the library workplace: What it is and how to prevent it by Reba Leiding + Joining forces to enlighten the research process: A librarian and writing studio integrate by Leslie J. Foutch + Colleagues. Community. Collaboration.: ACRL benefits you by Mary Jane Petrowski ACRL TechConnect + Using LibGuides for an information literacy tutorial: Tutorial 2.0 by Kathryn Yelinek, Linda Neyer, Darla Bressler, Michael Coffta, and David Magolis As I See It + Information literacy: A Call to Action by Sharon Weiner + Scholarly Communications Open access at the University of Kansas: Toward a campus initiative by Deborah Ludwig + Job of a Lifetime Jason Casden: Digital technologies development librarian by Erin Dorney Departments + In the News by David Free + News from the Field by David Free + Washington Hotline by Jenni Terri + Preservation News by Jane Hedberg + Internet Reviews by Joni R. Roberts, Carol A. Drost, Wendell G. Johnson, Todd J. Wiebe, and Lori Robare + New Publications by by George M. Eberhart + Grants and Acquisitions by Ann-Christe Galloway + Fast Facts by Gary Pattillo All of These Articles Are Accessible in HTML or PDF via the Table of Contents Source: ACRL (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:48:31 +0100 857926 http://www.comarmsblog.com/2010/07/digitization-efforts-at-artillery.html Army.mil has a great article in their news section about Fort Sill's digitization efforts! Fort Sill's Morris Swett Technical Library, at the Artillery School is part of the consortium of libraries hosting material with the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. Our friends at Fort Sill are working to preserve fragile and difficult-to-access materials from before the Revolutionary War and up through the Vietnam war. One fascinating book they've been working with is War Department document No. 582, "Notes for Infantry officers on Trench Warfare," which gives an officer's personal experiences and advice on hygiene topics such as head lice, roaches and vermin. It's a great, specific-interest historic document that's now available all over the world, for free. From the article:  "Notes for Infantry Officers on Trench Warfare" is one of the books that has been digitized and made available by the Morris Swett Technical Library the Army's artillery school library. Staff members at the library are currently digitizing 1 million pages of historical coast, field and air defense artillery documents as well as historic Fort Sill documents and putting them online.  Top digitization priorities include items they feel will be in highest demand, and those which are too fragile to be handled by researchers. Putting them online makes them available 24-7 to researchers and curious souls around the world, without the need for white gloves, long traveling times, or an appointment. To read the full article, be sure to visit: http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/06/24/41341-artillery-library-digitizing-documents/ A tip of the hat to our friends at Fort Sill! We're glad their preservation and access efforts are being acknowledged, promoted and shared! (Source: CARL Book Beacon) Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:39:00 +0100 857989 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/07/information-technology-specialist-sysanalysis-at-library-of-congress/ The Library of Congress is recruiting an Information Technology Specialist (SYSANALYSIS). Salary: $89,033-$115,742. Here's an excerpt from the ad: This position is located in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, and reports to the Project Manager for Digital Initiatives. We are seeking a qualified individual to join us in our efforts to build library and repository systems of the future. The incumbent works with a specialized group of programmers on complex, multi-faceted prototype and production systems, and assists with software analysis, design, development, documentation and implementation of these systems. The successful candidate will work as a member of a team to design, develop, document, and support new or existing software systems within a repository development program. These systems will support acquisition, preservation, and access for a large number of digital collections spanning a wide variety of content types and formats. (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 858374 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/6JMYGKPfbf0/ The Library of Congress is recruiting an Information Technology Specialist (SYSANALYSIS). Salary: $89,033-$115,742. Here's an excerpt from the ad: This position is located in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, and reports to the Project Manager for Digital Initiatives. We are seeking a qualified individual to join us in our efforts to build library and repository systems of the future. The incumbent works with a specialized group of programmers on complex, multi-faceted prototype and production systems, and assists with software analysis, design, development, documentation and implementation of these systems. The successful candidate will work as a member of a team to design, develop, document, and support new or existing software systems within a repository development program. These systems will support acquisition, preservation, and access for a large number of digital collections spanning a wide variety of content types and formats. (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:04:33 +0100 858088 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15290 University Dissertation & Thesis Coordinator (FA600z) (George Mason University, Virginia) George Mason University Libraries seek a service-oriented and dynamic professional, skilled in communication and instruction for the position of University Dissertation and Thesis Services (UDTS) Coordinator. UDTS is the unit in University Libraries, within the Special Collections and Archives (SC&A) department, responsible for dissemination of official university information regarding requirements for completion of theses and dissertations, overseeing their timely submission, and ensuring their archiving and preservation. This position reports to the Head of SC&A. ... Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:40:01 +0100 857623 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/07/national-library-of-jamaica-gone-digital/ From the Article: With the click of a mouse in the comfort of their homes, Jamaicans can now access historical materials, including maps, photographs and plans, which are stored on the website of the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ). In an era when more and more information is being sought on the Internet, the NLJ has moved to facilitate the process, by digitising its collections as well as downloading and storing Jamaican publications on its website. [Clip] “Of course, this is a pilot project, so we really are not collecting everything on the Internet about Jamaica, but we are collecting select publications at this point while we test the process,” she adds. Another activity of the library is converting historical materials to a digital format, so that persons can access them via the website. [Executive Director of the NLJ], Mrs. [Winsome] Hudson says that some of the materials that have been converted date back to the 17th Century and beyond. Among the oldest publications, she points out, is the first published map of Jamaica, printed after Columbus had discovered the country. Access the Complete Article Source: Jamaica Information Service (via Twitter) See Also: National Library of Jamaica Web Site See Also: National Library of Jamaica on Facebook See Also: National Library of Jamaica Flickr Photostream (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:21:10 +0100 857686 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/06/senior-software-developer-at-northwestern-university/ The Northwestern University Library is recruiting a Senior Software Developer. Here's an excerpt from the ad: This position works in a highly collaborative environment with Library colleagues and external partners on the analysis, design, coding and testing of software in support of the Library's enterprise applications. The position also explores, adapts, and implements emerging digital repository technologies—particularly in the areas of digital preservation, metadata, collections, discovery, and repository services. (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 858381 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/06/university-dissertation-and-thesis-coordinator-at-george-mason-university/ The George Mason University Libraries are recruiting a University Dissertation and Thesis Coordinator. Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: FA600z): The George Mason University Libraries seek a service-oriented and dynamic professional, skilled in communication and instruction, for the position of University Dissertation and Thesis Services (UDTS) Coordinator. UDTS is the unit in University Libraries, within the Special Collections and Archives (SC&A) department, responsible for dissemination of official university information regarding requirements for completion of theses and dissertations, overseeing their timely submission, and ensuring their archiving and preservation. This position reports to the Head of SC&A. The successful applicant initiates and maintains communication between UDTS and George Mason University graduate students, programs (36 doctoral and 78 master's programs), and other administrative offices related to the dissertation/thesis submission process. Primary responsibilities relate to student instruction in the proper formatting, completion, and submission of their dissertations/theses through meetings and class presentations/workshops, as well as by creating and using instructional aids. The coordinator oversees the following: final submission of dissertations/theses and all related documentation; processing of archival, stacks and electronic copies of dissertations/theses; university dissertations submission to UMI/ProQuest; and copyright releases and related paperwork for electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) submission. Manages the ETD program and participates in other digital library initiatives, includes working regularly with the Digital Repository Services Librarian, the Head of the Copyright Resources Office and others on scholarly communications, particularly as they relate to ETDs. Prepares reports for internal use (e.g., the Graduate Council) and external use (e.g. ... Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 858379 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/nv_tOALn20Q/ The George Mason University Libraries are recruiting a University Dissertation and Thesis Coordinator. Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: FA600z): The George Mason University Libraries seek a service-oriented and dynamic professional, skilled in communication and instruction, for the position of University Dissertation and Thesis Services (UDTS) Coordinator. UDTS is the unit in University Libraries, within the Special Collections and Archives (SC&A) department, responsible for dissemination of official university information regarding requirements for completion of theses and dissertations, overseeing their timely submission, and ensuring their archiving and preservation. This position reports to the Head of SC&A. The successful applicant initiates and maintains communication between UDTS and George Mason University graduate students, programs (36 doctoral and 78 master's programs), and other administrative offices related to the dissertation/thesis submission process. Primary responsibilities relate to student instruction in the proper formatting, completion, and submission of their dissertations/theses through meetings and class presentations/workshops, as well as by creating and using instructional aids. The coordinator oversees the following: final submission of dissertations/theses and all related documentation; processing of archival, stacks and electronic copies of dissertations/theses; university dissertations submission to UMI/ProQuest; and copyright releases and related paperwork for electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) submission. Manages the ETD program and participates in other digital library initiatives, includes working regularly with the Digital Repository Services Librarian, the Head of the Copyright Resources Office and others on scholarly communications, particularly as they relate to ETDs. Prepares reports for internal use (e.g., the Graduate Council) and external use (e.g. ... Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:04:53 +0100 858093 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/rn1cnp_8fRo/ The Northwestern University Library is recruiting a Senior Software Developer. Here's an excerpt from the ad: This position works in a highly collaborative environment with Library colleagues and external partners on the analysis, design, coding and testing of software in support of the Library's enterprise applications. The position also explores, adapts, and implements emerging digital repository technologies—particularly in the areas of digital preservation, metadata, collections, discovery, and repository services. (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:02:38 +0100 858095 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/PobZjZlDHxA/maney-publishing-joins-clockss-lockss.html "Maney has joined the CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and Portico digital preservation services to guarantee the long-term security of its e-journal content" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:48:51 +0100 857375 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheUbiquitousLibrarian/~3/gh0Y_ZUNs9g/happy-new-fiscal-year-a-quick-review-of-coupa.html Last month we started using COUPA as our procurement software. Our business officer has been very determined to move us away from traditional paper slips and into the digital age of ordering. It’s definitely the direction we need to go!   One of the really cool features of the software is the ability to tag items with keywords such as preservation or publicity to give us a better sense of budgeting targets and actual expenses.   Everything fits into customized categories, so it will be great to look back over the year and see exactly who is buying what and when. I imagine this could lead to bulk ordering in the future along with a more streamlined inventory.   It’s great too because it gives us an ordering chain with built-in approvals. So when one of my staff requests something I get an email—I can approve or deny it—it then goes along to the next level depending on cost. If it is under a certain amount then it goes directly to purchasing—if it is over a certain amount then it moves along to the next level for approval.   Coupa is great for budgeting because it gives you real-time numbers on expenses. This is helpful for project management because you can keep track of everything in one place. It also lets people know where things are in the process. Paper slips are easy to lose and you’re always left wondering where’s my stuff. This tool lets your staff get shipping and tracking numbers and notifications of things step by step.   We went live with it in June but now it’s very real. The paper slips can be burned, it’s all digital now! I don’t normally get excited about procurement, but this tool makes it cool, almost even fun. It's very Amazon-like. I’m looking forward to seeing the details of how I allocate my funds as well as the macro level spending of our organization. If you have an opportunity to explore Coupa I highly recommend it. ... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 858602 http://www.comarmsblog.com/2010/07/happy-independence-day.html The technical date of legal separation with Great Brittan for the American Colonies is actually July 2nd, 1776.  This was the date the Second Continental Congress voted to approve the resolution of independence that had been proposed back in June. The Declaration of Independence, which was Congress' statement explaining the decision, wasn't actually approved and signed until July 4th. There were technically five authors of the Declaration of Independence, Roger Sherman, John Adams, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was the primary author, and did most of the "heavy lifting," but all five labored over every word to make sure it precisely expressed the Congress' intentions and desires. In fact, the Library of Congress has recently revealed just how much labor had gone into every word of the Declaration of Independence. With the help of Hyperspectal Imaging, they have been able to see changes made to the Declaration, including key phrases. One rough draft refers to the "fellow subjects" of the Colonies, but the final version we know today refers to "fellow citizens." With the imaging technique the Library of Congress was able to see that not only did this wording of "subjects" survive the drafting process, but actually made it into the final version. In the final version, the new term is placed over the old in much darker text, but was previously unreadable. At some very late point, Jefferson's thinking on the matter of a person's relationship to the state (and vice versa), and changed the word to "citizens," which is connotative of a more fraternal society, instead of the old hierarchical order of Europe. The tiny find is fantastic for archivists and historians; it gives a great insight into the early formation of our country, and the men who created it. It also shows us just how human Jefferson was. ... Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:04:00 +0100 856650 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/02/digitizing-a-comprehensive-set-of-u-s-gov-docs-u-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign-newest-member-of-committee-for-institutional-cooperation-cic-google-partnership/ From the Announcement: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has joined a partnership with the Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and Google in an effort to digitize a comprehensive collection of U.S. Federal Documents. Digital facsimiles of successfully scanned Federal Documents will be made publicly accessible through Google Book Search, FDSys, and the Hathi Trust Digital Repository. [Clip] The project will digitize many of the government documents which were distributed to CIC libraries through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)…The process will largely rely upon a sheet-fed scanning process which produces higher resolution images. [Clip] The CIC-Google Government Document Project’s objective is to digitize a copy of all U.S. Federal documents held by CIC libraries and to develop a collective strategy for the retention and preservation of an adequate number of print copies to satisfy user needs… [Clip] + University of Minnesota and Pennsylvania State University have already sent material to Google to be digitized. Worth noting that Google will be using different technology than what the use for books since docs will be sheet fed. + All CIC libraries will eventually participate. This Several CIC web page has much more about the project. Read the Complete Announcement Source: UIUC (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:45:14 +0100 856403 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/02/national-library-of-new-zealand-releases-2010-2015-digitisation-plan/ From the National Library of New Zealand Announcement: The Library has developed the Digitisation Strategy 2010-2015 to bridge the gap between the level of access to its print and analogue collections, and the new expectations of customer access in the digital world. It explains how our digitisation programmes will satisfy the needs of current and future users. The strategy outlines three major digitisation programmes within the Library: + Digitisation for access will concentrate on providing remote access to New Zealand’s documentary heritage and taonga collections in a digital world. + Digitisation for preservation will focus on using digitisation to meet preservation goals, and particularly to migrating the intellectual content of at-risk collection items when the physical object is deteriorating. + Digitisation for customers and donors will continue its practice of digitising materials for customers and donors upon request. When this strategy is implemented the Library will hold a digital duplicate of many of its heritage items. These will be easily accessible for all to view, allowing original items to be safely stored. This will support the Library’s role of maintaining and preserving the original collections for future generations, and customers, both here and overseas, will be able to search and use the Library’s collections in many new ways. Access Full Text of Digitisation Strategy 2010-2015 (8 pages; PDF) Source: National Library of New Zealand (via Twitter) (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:47:44 +0100 856407