article thumbnail

Library History with Heritage & University Archives, Part 2

Archives Blogs

In this second installment of Library History with Heritage & University archives, we’ll be looking at the trajectory of the Library School since its reorganization in 1947. Strozier Library, 1957, view this item in the digital library. Center, was already providing digital access to rare Florida materials.

article thumbnail

Rebecca B. Rankin: Early Advocate for Public Access to Government Information

Archives Blogs

Rankin was the Director of the Municipal Reference Library for the City of New York. Her work included the promotion of resources and services of the library to its clients. Seaver is the author of A True Politician: Rebecca Browning Rankin, Municipal Reference Library of the City of New York, 1920-1952, published in 2003.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit

CILIP

Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras. Although a growing international activity, there has been little consideration of the impact of e-legal deposit on the 21st Century library, or on its present or future users.

article thumbnail

Digitization vs. Digital Preservation

Preservica

Our company started as a project back in 2003 with the UK National Archives as a public sector research project that resulted in the creation of PRONOM, a searchable public technical registry, and DROID, a file format identification tool – both of which are still used today. A: Ask yourself the question- how will I access this in 50 years?

article thumbnail

Digital collections priorities, 2018-2019

Archives Blogs

People Not Property: Slave Deeds of North Carolina A collaborative endeavor between the UNCG University Libraries, North Carolina Division of Archives and Records, and North Carolina Registers of Deeds among others. Bryan School Annual Reports Digitize the Bryan School’s annual reports to the Provost, from 1969-70 to 2003-04.

article thumbnail

The Sainsbury Archive chooses Preservica to create new cloud-based digital archive

Preservica

It is expected to create around 65 TB of information, and therefore felt it was important to ensure its unique digital material could be safely stored and future-proofed, using a secure cloud-hosted preservation and access platform. For us, Preservica ticked all those boxes and more.”.

article thumbnail

Remembering President Emeritus Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte

Archives Blogs

His work in the legal field won him numerous awards from the Florida Bar Foundation Medal of Honor in 1987 to the Florida Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers Annual Criminal Justice award in 1993 to an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his work allowing in allowing electronic journalists access to court proceedings.