Scan and Deliver… on Wikipedia!
I just learned from Max – our Wikipedian in Residence – that NARA (the US National Archives) is postings scans of archives on request and putting them up on Wikipedia. …
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Public libraries in the digital age
There is not often much in these posts about public libraries, but there are frequently posts about digital libraries. I admit to thinking there’s not all that much overlap between …
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Thick Description: Fingerprints, Sonnets, and Aboutness in Special Collections
Discoverability of special collections has long been a top concern of the OCLC Research Library Partnership. What works? Break out of the OPAC? Beyond MARC? End run around EAD? Constance …
Read MoreDigitizing special collections and leveraging fair use
After several years of work, the ARL Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Academic and Research Libraries is out. I was particularly eager to read the Code for …
Read MoreCopyright and risk: upping the ante?
The US Copyright office has recently issued a paper, Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office. The paper outlines some areas that the office will be working …
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Special delivery
Deliver a lot. Deliver a little. It’s all about delivery. We’ve been doing a lot of work around here on strategies to make it easy for users to get their …
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See us at CNI next week!
A few of us will be attending the Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting in San Diego next Monday and Tuesday. Jennifer will be giving a briefing on Managing Research …
Read MoreA crowdsourcing success story
I’m a great fan of the National Library of Australia’s Trove, a single search interface to 122 million resources—books, journals, photos, digitized newspapers, archives, maps, music, videos, Web sites—focused on …
Read MoreOn building community
Almost a year ago, we hosted Undue Diligence and released the “Well-intentioned practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online” document (we just call it WIP). The point behind …
Read MoreCloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment
The report of this project is now available. We blogged about it recently in the series of posts summarizing our major activities at year end. The importance of shared print …
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