Category: Digital Library Digest
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Digital Library Digest: March 16, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers Robert Darnton’s DPLA speech at Dartmouth, Nate Hill’s anticipatory blog of PLA Conference activities, the conference session on iPads in libraries, Trinity College’s new digitization work, and David Rumsey’s digital map collection.
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Digital Library Digest: March 9, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers Brewster Kahle’s preservation work, the Harvard Library contributions to the HathiTrust, Google Books’ reduced digitization activity, and a blogger’s thoughts on last week’s DPLA talk.
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Digital Library Digest: March 2, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers online distribution for Harry Potter, a library-publishing model in action, Darnton on library digitization, and Penguin’s growing eBook revenues.
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Digital Library Digest: February 25, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers the HarperCollins loan policy, the Endangered Archives Programme, Nate Hill’s publishing model for libraries, and the first issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship.
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Digital Library Digest: February 17, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers fallout from the Penguin-OverDrive dispute, the launch of BibSoup, The Library as Incubator Project, and LJ’s Patron Profiles.
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Digital Library Digest: February 10, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers Karen Coyle on modern data, Big Six resistance to ebooks, the Austrian National Library’s ambitious digitization goals, and Penguin’s separation from OverDrive.
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Digital Library Digest: February 3, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig provides updates on DPLA West, the Dev team’s first build, Random House’s actions after their meeting with ALA, an interview with author Marilyn Johnson, and the Harvard experimental library seminar.
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Digital Library Digest: January 27, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers an announcement from the DPLA Dev team, an ALA meeting with publishing elites, a digital record of the 19th century, and the shortcomings of Ebook lending models.
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Digital Library Digest: January 20, 2012
This week’s voluminous DigLibDig runs the gamut from eBook library lending stats, to digital history, to the SOPA/PIPA blackout, among other topics.
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Digital Library Digest: January 13, 2011
This week’s DigLibDig collects articles on historic Facebook profiles, library eReader lending, UK National Archive digitization projects, and digital textbooks.