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The UFDC Programmer, Mark Sullivan, put a browse by thumbnail cover in place not too recently, but so many other wonderful items have been loading and so many other improvements have been made that I’m just now catching up to mention the cover browse. The cover browse allows anyone to see the thumbnail images for the covers or first pages of all issues/volumes in an item. This means users can browse all of the first pages of a newspaper or all of the covers of a journal. The cover browse is an excellent example of elegant simplicity. It uses existing information and functionality–the thumbnails forRead More →

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[The job posting below is from Florida International University, a public university in Miami. FIU is one of the public universities, along with UF and a number of others, in Florida. The UF Digital Library Center (which is where I am and what I write about on this blog) is part of the University of Florida Libraries in Gainesville. While FIU in Miami to UF in Gainesville are a fair distance apart, FIU and UF work closely together on a number of projects including the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Everglades Digital Library. We work together frequently, as do all of the StateRead More →

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The message below is from the Centernet list. For any scholars interested in working with the University of Florida Digital Library Center on the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library, the Digital Library of the Caribbean, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Digital Collection, or any of our other digital collections or projects (full list with page counts for the collections is here, but please note that the page counts are not the best way to count for some collections as with the world maps), please contact me. The NEH’s Division of Research has a grant program called Fellowships at DigitalRead More →

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[The job posting below is from FCLA. FCLA is the Florida Center for Library Automation and they’re also in Gainesville, like the University of Florida. However, FCLA is a central office that reports to all of the State University Libraries. The UF Digital Library Center (which is where I am and what I write about on this blog) is part of the University of Florida Libraries in Gainesville. The State University Libraries in Florida all work together on various projects and with FCLA, so joining any of the libraries means working with the others and getting to know great people and projects throughout the State.Read More →

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Please help us promote the UF Libraries Video Awards Contest this fall and don’t forget to mark your calendars for the video screening in the Info Commons at noon on November 4th, 2009. What: Create a video that shows the “value of information sharing” in 2 minutes or less. Who: The UF Sparky Awards Contest is open to all UF students Why: The first prize team will receive an iPod Touch and the runners up will receive Flip video cameras! This is your chance to express to the entire UF community the importance of free, legal, open access to information. Your videos will be screenedRead More →

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While I’ve read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, I’d only ever seen it in book format, until now. It’s always nice to find exciting new materials from the UF Digital Collections, but it’s equally wonderful to find amazingly interesting versions of familiar materials, especially with cover page political cartoons like this.Read More →

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During the ASCLA/ICAN discussion group meeting on collaborative digitization, a number of great projects were presented: digitalMETRO: directory of digital collections by members of the Metropolitan NY Library Council (built with Omeka) Lyrasis’ mass digitization initiative Tennessee Electronic Library: Volunteer Voices BCR will have workshops for collaborative groups on digital preservation South Carolina Digital Libraryand the Low Country Digital Library Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative Digital Library of GeorgiaRead More →

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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 find a way into so much content and helping to showcase some of the highlights of so much great content for all users. Some of the topics that include Florida content (as the Interim Director for the University of Florida Digital Library Center, which supports the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, the ones with Florida content are those of greatest interest to me): Baseball’s Modern WorldRead More →

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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, & More UFDC saw many improvements (thanks to Mark Sullivan’s programming) that have enabled many new ways to see and use materials in the all of the digital collections, including: Embedded Flash views Map-It view for items Google-maps based searching Embedded PDF views Metadata-only searching, for improved searching of collections which have very little full text Usage statistics now available online for everyone to trackRead More →