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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Archival
Non Words
What would you call a collection of non words? That question occurs to me with the news that Oxford University Press has a vault containing millions of “non words” notated on 4″ x 6″ cards. These are the words that … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Classification, Definitions, History, Language
Tagged Classification, dictionary, English languages, Language, Linguistics, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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DIY Book Scanner for less than $20
If you have reading material that you would like to digitize, but not enough budget to make it happen, this might be your recipe for a Saturday afternoon do-it-yourself (DIY) project: New & Improved Portable, Paperless, Digital Copy Machine The … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Libraries, Photography, Software, Tutorials
Tagged book scanner, DIY, Do it yourself, Wired;
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RECAPing PACER
PACER is the online access portal for “U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide”. Because the documents it provides are created by the federal judiciary, they are not copyrightable; because PACER is the only place to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Government, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged appellate court, Bankruptcy court, federal government, firefox, Government, Internet Archive, Legal research, Open Access, Open Source, PACER, Public records, RECAP, United States copyright law
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NASA Needs A Library Solution (But So Do Libraries)
In a merging of two of my great interests, NASA has issued a Request For Information (ROI) on how best to “analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system.“ At … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Classification, Government, History, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Databases, Software, Space, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged library technology, library tools, NASA, pdf, Wernher von Braun
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16mm Films on AV Geeks
Remember those 16mm films from your school days? Well, at least some of them have been saved from dumpsters and archived on the A/V Geeks website for online viewing. As a former high school A/V Geek myself, this warms my … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Libraries, Online Services, Video
Tagged 16mm films, library science, online viewing, Video
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UCLA Acquires Huxley Library
The UCLA Library has acquired the library including many papers of Aldous Huxley, who died in 1963 (the same day as John F. Kennedy). As Island is one of my favorite reads, this gives me one reason to actually want … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Libraries, News
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Island, John F. Kennedy, Library, UCLA, UCLA Acquires Huxley Library The
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Gramophone Archive
Gramophone Archive is the complete, searchable collection of every issue of The Gramophone since April 1923. Enjoy audiophiles! found via MetaFilter
Posted in Archival, History, Online Databases, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged audiophiles, Gramophone, Gramophone Archive, Periodicals
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Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
Papers of the War Department : 1784 to 1800 is a searchable archive of documents from the early history of the United States that, until recently, were thought to have been irretrievably lost in a fire. Over the past decade, … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Government, History, Online Databases
Tagged Archives, Fire, History, United States, War Department
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LIFE Photo Archive
About 2 million images from the LIFE Photo Archive have been digitized and are available via Google Image Search. What is even better is that, over the next few months, the remaining 8 million images from the collection will be … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Google, Photography, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, image search query;, LIFE, Official, Photography
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WorldCat and Digital Images Collections
Go to WorldCat and type in a search. The results contain books, video, audio, you name it. One of the more recent additions is the Digital Images Collections, which can be wonderful to view. How to find them, though? Type … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Libraries, OCLC, Online Databases, Photography, Search
Tagged search terms
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Book Scanning at the Internet Archive
Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text project. The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Open Access, Photography
Tagged Canon EOS, Canon EOS 1D, Canon EOS-5D Digital Camera with 24-105mm Lens, digital cameras, Internet Archive
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Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
The Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service is something that I have thought would make an interesting business model: take public domain materials and publish them using a print-on-demand service. With the various scanning projects, there are more and more … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
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Zotero Commons
Kind of an interesting application of the Zotero add-on for Firefox : the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (no relation 😉 ) and the Internet Archive are working to create a storage for scholarly annotation … Continue reading
Diary of Saad Eskander
The Diary of Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraqi National Library and Archive is available via the British Library website. In the diary, Dr. Eskander details the day-to-day challenges faced by the library staff as they attempt to do their … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Government, Libraries, Politics
Tagged British Library, Director, Iraqi National Library, Saad Eskander
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Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project
This article from Linux.com is a great overview of what it takes to run a digitization project with fragile material and across great distance, as the Library of Congress and Archive.org work together on a project to preserve some of … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Government, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Source, Software
Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project
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Update on EPA library issue
As an update to this post, it seems that the situation with the EPA library is getting worse. Presumably in response to a congressional request to halt the closure of its libraries, the EPA is removing thousands of documents from … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Libraries, News, Online Databases, Open Access, Politics
Tagged Chicago, Chicago library, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA library, USD, web servers
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Internet Archive exempt from DMCA
According to a press release, the Internet Archive has been granted an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), allowing it to continue archiving web sites, software and such. Hopefully this is the movement towards more reasonable copyright applications … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Internet Archive, Internet Archive exempt, reasonable copyright applications
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Internet Archive times 3
All right then, begin the list: 1) An article spotted in this morning’s paper that offers a great summary for those not familiar with the archive: Content of Dead Sites Lives in Archive . 2) They earned a 2006 Education … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Video, WebSearch
Tagged Archive, Internet Archive, Internet Archive times
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