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From: UF Center for Latin American Studies The University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies will sponsor Library Travel Research Grants for summer 2010. Their purpose is to enable faculty researchers from other U.S. colleges and universities to use the extensive resources of the Latin American Collection in the University of Florida Libraries, thereby enhancing its value as a national resource.  The grants are funded by a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Six or more travel grants of up to $1250 each will be made to cover travel and lodging expenses. Grantees are expected to remain inRead More →

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From: UF Libraries’ News, Events, and Updates Students (graduate or undergraduate) making books in book arts and/or fine arts programs across the United States are invited to participate in ARTBOUND by submitting work to a juried artists’ book exhibition and permanent collection at The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries! Entrants are to submit handmade, artists’ books printed in edition. Books printed with letterpress, intaglio, inkjet, and/or screenprint techniques will be considered. We will also consider one-of-a-kind handmade books created in other mediums. We are looking for high quality, original work. Click HERE to download PDF entry form for ARTBOUND.Read More →

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From: UF Libraries’ News, Events, and Updates A $2.38 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Indiana University (IU) will be used to develop software created specifically for the management of print and electronic collections for academic and research libraries around the world. The University of Florida is the lead partner for the Florida Consortium (Florida International University, Florida State University, New College of Florida, Rollins College, University of Central Florida, University of Miami, University of South Florida and the Florida Center for Library Automation), which is a founding member of a national coalition of libraries which will shape and implement the software.Read More →

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The University of South Carolina College of Arts & Sciences seeks to appoint a specialist in Digital Humanities to support collaborative research and develop infrastructure for a proposed Center for Digital Humanities at South Carolina. Candidates should have a PhD in a humanities discipline, along with a strong background in computational research methodologies. Important skills for the position include an imaginative approach to collaborative research, efficient project management, strong grant-writing abilities, the ability to build coalitions and work cooperatively with a variety of partners, and the ability to communicate effectively with specialists in a variety of disciplines including Computer Science. Nine-month salary $50,000 with benefits;Read More →

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Mark Sullivan, the DLC programmer who supports the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and the UF Digital Collections, pulled these images together with the new satellite imagery just released. These are images of the dLOC partner buildings before and after the Earthquake from Google Earth. There is obvious damage, but it appears as though all but the BHPSE look to be fairly intact.  The National Library looks to have a good bit of damage, especially in the back where the newspaper archives are.  The FIC (“Christian Brothers” ) library seems fine and the historic archives building is still standing as well.Read More →

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From the Digital Library of the Caribbean: Our thoughts are with our partners and friends in Haiti.  Please consider donating to one of the many trusted relief organizations on behalf of Haiti. Nos pensées sont avec nos partenaires et amis en Haïti. S’il vous plaît envisager de faire don à l’une des nombreuses organisations de confiance de secours en faveur d’Haïti. Nuestros pensamientos están con nuestros socios y amigos en Haiti.  Por favor, considerar cualquier donación a una de las organizaciones voluntarios de ayuda a favor de Haiti. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders International Committee of the Red Cross UNICEF USA World FoodRead More →

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News Release: Flagler receives prestigious ‘Save America’s Treasures’ grant (December 17, 2009) St. Augustine, Fla. — Flagler College recently received a prestigious grant to help preserve drawings from the architects of the treasured National Historic Landmark Hotel Ponce de Leon. Flagler College President William T. Abare Jr., Ed.D., announced receipt of the prestigious “Save America’s Treasures” (SAT) grant administered through the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Saving St. Augustine’s Architectural Treasures project, a partnership with the University of Florida Libraries, will conserve and digitally preserve an irreplaceable collection of the earliest architectural drawings of John Carrère (1858-1911) and Thomas Hastings (1860-1929), the designers ofRead More →

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Source code is available on the SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/metseditor/files/ Email Discussion List in Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sobekcm-discuss Open Source METS Metadata Editor: Download About the Open Source METS Metadata Editor One of the newest of the continual upgrades to the UF Digital Collections is online metadata editing. To make that fully operational our programmer, Mark Sullivan, revised the current standalone METS Metadata Editor application to ensure it remained in parallel. In doing so, Mark noticed that he could quickly adapt our METS Metadata Editor to serve the needs of all of the State University Libraries in Florida. Mark made those updates and the METS MetadataRead More →

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Press Release from FSU: FSU’s PALM Center to partner in Library of Congress grant The PALM Center at the Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies is part of a team that has been awarded a $300,000 grant by the Library of Congress. The collaborative project, Successfully Teaching Educators about Primary Sources, will extend the work of the Library of Congress initiative Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS). “Kids improve their analytical skills—higher-order critical thinking and inquiry-oriented activities—by working with primary source, first-hand information,” said Dr. Nancy Everhart, director of the PALM Center. “And they become inspired to learn more about history by workingRead More →

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The UF Digital Collections (UFDC) now have fully functioning online metadata editing! It’s only been a few weeks since the UFDC self-submittal tool for  faculty to use to load materials to the Institutional Repository and for UFDC partners to use to load materials to their collections went live and now we’ve already added  full online metadata editing.  Mark Sullivan, the programmer who created the internal metadata editor originally as a desktop tool and who has now made the online tool with the same and even enhanced functionality over the desktop tool, released the online metadata editing earlier this week. We’ve been keeping the release quietRead More →