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Europeana and Digitization: The Collaboration Is Only Beginning
'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."
Digital publishing: Google's big book case | The Economist
'Google has a big economic incentive to ensure that its online library is widely available: it makes most of its money from search advertising, so the more people that use its services, including the online book archive, the better. It also has a legal incentive to watch its step. The agreement stipulates that institutional subscription prices must be low enough to ensure that the public has “broad access” to digital books, while at the same time earning market rates for copyright owners. So if lots of libraries refuse to sign up for Google’s service because it is too costly, the company could be slapped with a lawsuit.'
Digital Scores and Libretti
'The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School. Many, such as variant editions of nineteenth century operas and related libretti, fall into intellectually related sets that are meant to be seen and used together. As a group, they give scholars a window into the study of historical performance practice that cannot be duplicated using the holdings of any one other library.'
Latin American Pamphlets
'Harvard's Widener Library is the repository of many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries.'
Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
"The American Art Museum is the home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America's rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. More than 7,000 artists are represented in the collection..."
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
"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"
Botanicus.org
"freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library."
Papers Past
"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."
ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
Digital collection of historic Austrian newspapers. Full page scans available.
Search Newspaper Directory - Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
Newspaper directory of historic American newspapers at the Library of Congress. Digital images available for some.
Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 - Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project
"Welcome to Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845, a digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840-1845."
SEARCH The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
Digitized historic newspapers and periodicals in the Library of Congress' American Memory collection
News: Digital Archives That Disappear - Inside Higher Ed
"The fate of "Paper of Record," a digital archive of early newspapers with a particularly strong collection of Mexican newspapers, may be cited in the years ahead as an example of the dangers of purchase by a large entity. Paper of Record was purchased (secretly) by Google in 2006, and shortly after Google took over management of the site, late last year, the archive disappeared from view."
American Social History
"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."
World Digital Library Home
"a Web site that allows visitors to browse through a trove of artifacts spanning the history of civilization."
Digital Library of Appalachia : Home
"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."
Scott Polar Research Institute » Freeze Frame - historic polar images
"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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