Rebecca Jefferson, Curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida, recently started a blog to promote discussion of and hopefully locate more information on Count Riamo d’Hulst. Rebecca is researching the Count’s life in order…
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Rephotography, Historical Archives, and Historypin
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The UF Digital Collections include many, many rich collections, including the University Archives Photograph Collection. One of the more exciting recent uses of the collection has been in rephotography like that done by Pam Marlin: While evocative and powerful, rephotography…
National Archives of Australia’s Vrroom and Enabling Access
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The National Archives of Australia developed and maintain Vroom – Virtual Reading Room (http://vrroom.naa.gov.au/). Vrroom is like many systems in that it provides access to archival collection records and digitized materials. To those, Vrroom has added educational and contextual materials for a…
Finding Guide in Spanish and English from the UF Libraries
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This week the UF Libraries celebrate the first finding guide for an archival collection in both Spanish and English. The finding guide is: Guide to the Rafael Martínez Pupo Papers Relating to Comandos Mambises Guía de los Documentos de Rafael…
News: JTA Archives Online
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The news item below is from the newslib list-serve. I’m posting it because it connects to the work being done at the Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida to build a Newspaper Digital Collection from the Price…
News: Archives Portal Europe
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?The first version of the Archives Portal Europe is now online: www.archivesportaleurope.eu Archives Portal Europe allows users to search across the: the holdings of 47 institutions 7.794.952 descriptive units 725.406 digital archival objects The site is still in beta, but…
News: Prototype interface released for searching archival authority records
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Awesome news from CDL, so reposting below. The original is here. Prototype interface released for searching archival authority records CDL’s Digital Special Collections program is pleased to announce the public release of a draft prototype historical access system for the…
Finding Guides in SobekCM
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SobekCM – the system powering the UF Digital Collections, the Digital Library of the Caribbean, and many other rich collections – will soon have advanced support for finding guides in EAD. This has been in process as a complete solution…
The Longtail of News
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“The Longtail of News” by the Toronto Star‘s public editor Kathy English is an excellent report for the effects of networked, persistent access to information in respect to the public good and the accuracy of current and archived information.
Shaving with an Axe, Historic Photo in UF Today
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I was reading the latest issue of UF Today, and it had the wonderful photograph above of one man shaving another with an axe. The story next to it explains that the photo is from a Department of Forestry Field…