12 hours ago by JBD

- First, a hilarious takedown of an incredibly ridiculous eBay listing, by Book Patrol's Stephen Gertz. This seller was attempting to sell an ex-lib, later edition of Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (albeit one from the Department of Defense Library) as "Legitimate Contender World's ...

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13 hours ago by DF

With each new technology comes a whole array of different problems attached to it that must be solved to make the technology truly useful. Such is the case with digital photos. While photography has never been easier to do...

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2 days ago by jpitchford

Volume 4, #2 November 2009 for Digital Updates Historical Newspapers in Washington – 1 new title. The years 1861-1864 have been added to the Puget Sound Herald in Historical Newspapers in Washington online project, which now covers six years of Steilacoom pioneer news, from 1858 to 1864. Classics in ...

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2 days ago by kristenyt

The University of Scranton’s football team may no longer be around (in fact, it’s famous on campus for being “undefeated since 1960″), but at the Weinberg Memorial Library, UofS football is back in a big way. This week, the Library is proud to announce the University of Scranton Football Collection, ...

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2 days ago by jacobpedia

At the end of a long week, it’s time to relax and link: The National Archives is taking a new approach to finding out what was discussed in the 18 minutes erased on the Watergate tapes. Arlo Guthrie is pretty sure that Nixon and Co. were listening to “Alice’s Restaurant.” Keep your fingers crossed t ...

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3 days ago by DF

One of the biggest advantages in using digital photography is the ability to edit your pictures both while they are still in the camera and when they have been downloaded and are ready to print. This ability of digital...

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3 days ago by Cyberlibris

L'Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG) vient d'innover avec Cyberlibris en lançant ELibris , la premičre bibliothčque numérique pluridisciplinaire adossée ŕ un réseau social académique. ELibris est riche de plus de 10 000 livres en français et en anglais auxquels viendront s'ajo ...

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3 days ago by Edward Nawotka

By Edward Nawotka In today’s lead article about the Singapore Writers Festival, Peter Gordon, Hong Kong publisher of Chameleon Press, suggested that some parts of Asia were slow movers in the race towards literary digitization. He said: E-publishing “is awaited with a combination of anticipation of ...

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3 days ago by Jennifer Lim

Paleontology staff posing with Fossil Shark Jaws. Image courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, image no. 124448 In the summer of 2007, I spent eight weeks with Barbara Mathé, Museum Archivist and Head of Library Special Collections at the American Museum of Natural History Library, comb ...

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5 days ago by Jean Smith

While the benefits of digital resources are clear, particularly for researchers for whom physical access of sources is difficult, questions remain. Will the digitization of archives and its cost result in reduced physical access to archives? What will be the cost to the researcher to use digitized s ...

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