Kay Cunningham's List: Digitization and Digital Collections

'Launched in November 2008 with 2 million digitized works from 27 member countries, Europeana now claims more than 4.6 million books, newspapers, film clips, maps, photographs, and documents from European libraries, archives, museums, and audiovisual repositories. More than 1,000 cultural institutions contribute content directly or indirectly through aggregators, and more than 150 institutions participate as partners in the network. The goal is to have 10 million objects accessible through the portal by the time Europeana 1.0 replaces the beta site in 2010."

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'As journals are increasingly accessed in digitized form, many libraries have grown interested in de-accessioning little-used print originals; but desires to repurpose space often come into conflict with concerns about preservation. “What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization” analyzes which types of journals can be withdrawn responsibly today and how that set of materials can be expanded to allow libraries the maximum possible flexibility and savings in the future.'

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'Google's five-year head start and its relationships with libraries and publishers give it an effective monopoly: No competitor will be able to come after it on the same scale. Nor is technology going to lower the cost of entry. Scanning will always be an expensive, labor-intensive project. Of course, 50 or 100 years from now control of the collection may pass from Google to somebody else—Elsevier, Unesco, Wal-Mart. But it's safe to assume that the digitized books that scholars will be working with then will be the very same ones that are sitting on Google's servers today, augmented by the millions of titles published in the interim.'

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"archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region"

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"freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library."

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"Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1920 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand."

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Digital collection of historic Austrian newspapers. Full page scans available.

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Newspaper directory of historic American newspapers at the Library of Congress. Digital images available for some.

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"Welcome to Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845, a digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840-1845."

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Digitized historic newspapers and periodicals in the Library of Congress' American Memory collection

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"Aquifer American Social History Online, a project of the Digital Library Federation, provides scholars with access to distributed digital library collections pertaining to 19th and 20th century United States social history. AASHO is available through locally supported tools so that you can find, organize, use, and share items from diverse collections."

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"a Web site that allows visitors to browse through a trove of artifacts spanning the history of civilization."

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"online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries."

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"The Freeze Frame project is developing an online database of freely available visual and textual resources to support learning, teaching and research into topics relating to the history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration and science. Through a series of

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"The following projects were selected from among 118 proposals submitted in 2008. Proposals came from a wide variety of academic and cultural institutions across the United States. Award recipients will create web-accessible records according to standards

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"search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."

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MARSBest annotation: "Established in 1999, this site is valuable for its extensive coverage of both historical and current information on United States presidencies and is easy to navigate. It provides a searchable database of over 85,000 documents, such as speeches, official papers, executive orders, proclamations, news conferences, and press briefings. Various retrieval options are available, including by keywords, dates, document type, and presidents. Additional in depth analyses are offered on topics that may be challenging to locate by other means, such as presidential relations with Congress. Lastly, Quick Time Player videos of important presidential election moments, addresses, and speeches are provided."
Author/Publisher: University of California, Santa Barbara - John Woolley and Gerhard Peters, Collaborators
Free/Fee-based: Free
Date Reviewed: 2/26/09

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