Download Audio: "JFK Library Releases Recording of President Kennedy...
From the JFK Presidential Library and Museum: On what marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s first challenge to the country to commit to sending a man to the moon before the end of...
View ArticleReference: Interactive Visualization: The Growth of Newspapers Across the...
Direct to Interactive Visualization This visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress’ “Chronicling...
View ArticleWorld History: New Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland Now Available Online
From the YIVO Institute: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce the launch of the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland, atpolishjews.yivoarchives.org. The website...
View ArticleUSC Shoah Foundation Completes Preservation/Digitization of Nearly 52,000...
From the USC Shoah Foundation (via PR Newswire): The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has completed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project to digitally preserve the video interviews in its Visual...
View ArticleReligion: Millions of LDS Documents, Images Now Online
From an Article in The Deseret News: Millions of documents and images in the extensive archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are now more accessible to anyone with a computer and...
View ArticleHistory: Library and Archives Canada Releases Digitized Newsreel Content
From LAC: Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the release of a heritage film on its YouTube channel. The silent film The Tide of Immigration is part of our heritage and the...
View ArticleFull Text Book Available Online (Free): “Hidden Treasure: The National...
Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine is available FREE (122 pages; PDF) and/or for $31.24 from Amazon. It was published in April. A new article in NLM In Focus provides some highlights...
View ArticleUVA Law Library’s Digital Exhibit Reveals Little-Known Details of Tokyo War...
From the University of Virginia Law School: Frank Stacy Tavenner Jr., a 1927 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and assistant chief prosecutor of the Tokyo War Crimes trial, stood at...
View ArticleGeorgia: Home Movie in U. of Georgia Library May Be State’s Oldest Film Images
From the Athens Banner-Herald: Archivists at the University of Georgia believe they have found the earliest movie footage shot in the state, part of a collection of home movies and other films that...
View ArticleHistory: French Holocaust Records Exhibited For 1st Time
From the AP (via AJC): They are among France’s darkest days: Police dragged over 13,000 Jews from their homes, confined them in a Paris cycling stadium with little food or water, and then deported them...
View ArticleNew Online from The British Library: Oral History Recordings with British...
From the BL: With less than two weeks until the start of the London 2012 Olympics, the British Library is making available a selection of 61 oral history interviews documenting the lives and careers of...
View ArticleAwesome! Film Archives: AP and British Movietone Make Nearly 17,000 Hours of...
The entire Associated Press film archive and much more is now available on YouTube. Wow! From the Associated Press: The Associated Press and British Movietone, one of the world’s most comprehensive...
View ArticleNew National Archives Video Gives an Inside Look at the Volunteer-Supported...
From a NARA News Release: A team of more than 60 volunteers led by professional staff at the National Archives has crossed the 100,000 mark in a project to digitize Civil War widows’ pension files and...
View ArticleRare, Once-Lost Pioneer Chinese Immigrant Docs Go Online
From Oregon Public Radio: Rare, once-lost historic records about pioneer Chinese immigrants to the Northwest have found a new life online. The digital archive is hosted by Oregon State University. A...
View ArticleUniversity of Florida Libraries Receive $265,000 National Endowment for the...
From the University of Florida: To prepare for the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine in 2015, the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries has been awarded $265,000 to build...
View ArticleVast Nazi-Era Archive Says Conserving Dachau Files
From AFP: A vast archive of documents linked to the Holocaust said Monday it would preserve 300,000 original prisoner files from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany that are disintegrating. The...
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The Europeana Newspapers Project Website Goes Live
The project was first announced in February. via LIBER: The newest LIBER’s project’s website has been launched in co-operation with the Berlin State Library, the Europeana Newspapers project leader....
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Reference: Encyclopedia Virginia Adds Direct Links to Primary Sources
From an Encyclopedia Virginia E-Mail Announcement: Select entries have been enriched with links to primary resources that feature: a brief explanation of the document’s significance a transcription of...
View ArticleOxford University’s Bodleian Libraries Announces Its First Crowdsourcing Project
From the Library’s Announcement: Members of the public are being asked to help describe 4,000 music pieces from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections, as part of a new project launched today. What’s the...
View ArticleEBSCO Discovery Service Adds the Complete Harvard Library Bibliographic...
The Harvard Library dataset was released on April 24th. Here’s our post and links to resources. Now, today’s news from EBSCO: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset contains 12 million open-access...
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