Tag: Archives

Jan 25 2008

Archives, Databases, Open Access, USA, World

Memory Archive

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Memory Archive is an online project that is gathering memoirs from everyday people. The site allows you to search for memoirs indexed for particular words (either in the title or...

Jan 24 2008

Archives, Europe, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

The Commons

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I started out being hesitant to go down the road that is making OPACs and other library related tools look more like Google, Amazon.com and the like, but the more...

Jan 06 2008

Archives, Digital, Manuscripts, Open Access, Public Libraries, Technology, USA

Government Documents at the BPL to be Digitized

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The Boston Public Library (BPL) has joined forces with PublicResource.org and the Internet Archive in order to begin digitizing the library’s large collection of government documents. This project has first...

Aug 29 2007

Archives, Digital, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, World

Apollo Moon Photographs

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In the 1970’s the various Apollo missions took a number of highly detailed photographs of the moon which have been seen only by a handful of scientist. For three decades...

Apr 20 2007

Archives, Libraries, Photographs, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Social Tagging and Cataloging

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Earlier this week I attended a lecture that addressed social tagging and its use to libraries. Today more and more libraries and archives are trying to make themselves more visible...

Mar 16 2007

Archives, Libraries, Technology, USA, World

PLALA – Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives

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This week I got to meet Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for collection development, and what a treat it was! I was most interested in learning about his...