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The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) has grown from September 2007’s 1 million pages (pages of books, newspapers, archival materials, maps, posters, audio, video, photos, and more) to 2 million in July 2008, 3 million in December 2008 (thanks to ingesting microfilm digitized by a vendor) and then to 4 million in July 2009. Right now – and UFDC is loading so this will be higher by morning – UFDC has 4,134,392 pages. Four million, one hundred and thirty-four thousand, three hundred and ninety-two pages. It sounds impressive because it is. Yet, it’s so much more than that even when only on a quantityRead More →

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The Rose Hill Manor Park & Children’s Museum in Frederick, Maryland will soon be printing new copies of historic children’s books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Digital Collection. The children’s books will be used for their story hour program where they read stories to children and let them act out part of the story and do a craft; their Playtime Monday programs that encourage children and parents to explore their facilities and spend time reading and playing together; tours; and history camp programs where they teach kids about school days for children in the past. It’s always exciting to share old materialsRead More →

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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 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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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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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 →

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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 already planning a fellowship proposal on Caribbean Studies, Florida history, newspapers, children’s literature, or another topic that connects easily to the the Digital Library of the Caribbean, the Florida History and Heritage Digital Collections, the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Digital Collection or another of the collections supported by UFDC. The ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships, the ACLSRead More →