Chronicling America, the amazing historical newspaper digital collection from the Library of Congress and NEH, has added “Topics“. With over a million pages of historical newspapers online, “Topics” are an essential need–helping users who aren’t sure what they’re looking for…
Monthly Archives: June 2009
UFDC Annual Accomplishments
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We’re nearing the end of the fiscal year, a time of due dates for many reports. Luckily, UFDC has many happy accomplishments that I want to share which makes report writing easy and even pleasant. UFDC Materials in Motion, Mapped,…
UFDC Links in the Library Catalog
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The UF Digital Collection (UFDC) records now load into the UF Libraries catalog with thumbnails!
New Editions of Two Baldwin Books Translated and Published
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The University of Florida’s Digital Library Center regularly receives requests for copies of digital files. The UF Digital Collections contain many items not in the public domain, but for which the rights owners have granted permissions and for those we…
Solving Current and Future Needs
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Google recently released the Google Translator Toolkit. The Translator Toolkit allows users to easily upload text, has Google Translate’s existing functionality to automatically translate the text, and then adds “Translation Memories” which is a database of prior human translations. A…
Government Printing Office History (video)
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Internet Archive has a video on the history of the Government Printing Office (GPO).
ACLS Fellowships
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ACLS has a number of fellowships and applications are due by September 30, 2009. The information on the fellowship programs won’t be updated until July, but it’s not too early to start planning a project. I’m hoping that someone is…