digitalcollections

Job Posting: Digital Collections Curator, The Pennsylvania State University Libraries

February 11, 2009

The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seeks a Digital Collections Curator to play a key role in the further development of our electronic content stewardship and publishing programs. These programs will be developed through a strategic and dynamic partnership between the Penn State Libraries and Information Technology Services (ITS). The Digital Collections Curator will lead...

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Historic Everglades Images on Flickr

February 4, 2009

America’s Swamp: the Historic Everglades, a new collection within the University of Florida Digital Collections should be up this week. In the meantime, we’ve already started loading some of the photos to Flickr. If the photos on Flickr aren’t enough, the Everglades Digital Library from FIU’s Digital Collections Center is already a massive digital...

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Ever-closer to Another Milestone!

October 4, 2008

The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) currently has 109,991 total items, which make up 60,664 different titles (newspapers, serials, and so forth mean one title can have thousands of items so that’s why these numbers differ), for 2,471,489 total pages. Of that total 34,578 items in 5,067 titles with 512,204 pages have been...

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LOC Press Release: Federal Agencies Collaborate on Guidelines for Digitization

October 3, 2008

LOC Press Release: The Library of Congress is among a dozen federal agencies launching an initiative to establish a common set of guidelines for digitizing historical materials. Basing its efforts on a combination of collaborative research and combined experience, the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative will address a variety of issues related to the...

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Invitation to Participate in Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Project / Una Invitación para Participar en un Proyecto para la Digitalización de Periódicos Caribeños

September 23, 2008

September 22, 2008 Invitation to Participate in Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Project The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is issuing a call for partners in a new effort to ensure preservation of and increase access to newspapers in the Caribbean. Newspapers offer valuable information to researchers on a broad range of topics. Digitized newspapers...

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Road to the Moon

September 6, 2008
Road to the Moon

I haven’t been blogging as much lately, but it’s not because I don’t have much to share. The adage “still waters run deep” seems fitting for the University of Florida Digital Collections of late. In recent months, we’ve upgraded our infrastructure repeatedly and we continue to make progress on working through our digitized-yet-unprocessed materials...

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Benefits of a Backlog – Over 100,000 a Month

August 18, 2008

In looking at our scheduling for the past few months–with many people out for training, illness, and vacation and a much smaller student workforce due to summer schedules and budget cuts–I was worried that we’d fall far behind our optimum production level. Instead, we’re producing even more. We hit 2 million pages on July...

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The Digital Library Center, Our Sign (and a bit of the office)

August 6, 2008
The Digital Library Center, Our Sign (and a bit of the office)

The photos above are of our Digital Library Sign, and they’re now online in UFDC (which is harvestable by robots as UFDC2) and online in our Flickr account. These pictures are particularly nice because they include so many of the other images we’ve worked on over the years. It’s also nice to show off...

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Job Opening in the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown

August 1, 2008

The Scholarly Technology Group at Brown is looking for the a research programmer  They’re looking for a creative, technically sophisticated individual who will use computer methods and structured data to augment the research process for humanities scholars. For more information: www.stg.brown.edu or elli_mylonas@brown.edu. To apply, go to the Brown job website, http://careers.brown.edu, and look...

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One Year, Two Months

July 28, 2008

I’ve been so busy the past year (or 14 months to be completely accurate) since joining UF’s Digital Library Center that it’s hard to see what all we’ve accomplished. The time has flown by with loads of wonderful work, and wonderful progress. I decided to review some of our documentation and to note a...

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