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Special Collections in the Collective Collection

February 12, 2013February 14, 2013 - by Jennifer Schaffner - 1 Comment

Last month I facilitated a forum at the New-York Historical Society about Putting ‘Special’ in the ‘Collective Collection.’ We think it might be the first ever meeting about the centrality …

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Scan and Deliver… on Wikipedia!

July 24, 2012September 9, 2020 - by Jennifer Schaffner

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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Digitization / Libraries

Public libraries in the digital age

July 19, 2012September 4, 2020 - by Ricky Erway - 3 Comments.

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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Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / Libraries Archives and Museums / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Visual Resources

Thick Description: Fingerprints, Sonnets, and Aboutness in Special Collections

May 17, 2012 - by Jennifer Schaffner

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 …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digitization

Digitizing special collections and leveraging fair use

March 5, 2012March 2, 2012 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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 …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digitization

Copyright and risk: upping the ante?

November 4, 2011September 9, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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

May 18, 2011 - by Jennifer Schaffner

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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Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / Modeling new services / Research Information Management

See us at CNI next week!

March 30, 2011 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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 …

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Digitization / Renovating Descriptive Practice

A crowdsourcing success story

March 21, 2011October 12, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

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 …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digitization

On building community

February 3, 2011 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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 …

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