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Harvesting Preservica metadata to your library discovery layer using APIs - Case Study: Preservica to Ex Libris' Primo

Preservica

We have different types of content in Preservica requiring different levels of controlled access. They were discoverable in our library catalog Ex Libris Primo but would potentially be behind a paywall depending on who the viewer was. Our library catalog is open access and is available online to see in action.

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Planning for Long-Term Access to COVID-19 Memory Websites

Archive-It

These records, often in the form of images with notes, are uploaded to websites set up by research centers, libraries, archives, and museums. In this post, we give some thoughts to the long-term access of the materials collected from these websites. After the sunsetting, the site is not accessible at its original web address.

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Survey reports skills in technology and Digital Preservation will be most desired in the next five years

Preservica

The report includes data on each archive’s budget, collection size, staff recruitment and retention, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, DEI efforts, and accessibility practices. The digitization of archives makes it possible to access them from anywhere in the world, increasing the reach and accessibility of archival collections.

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Book reviews: a call to arms for open licensing

CILIP

Nearly all the case studies in the second half of the book are UK-based and most deal with digitisation projects; the two exceptions are the accounts from the British Library (open metadata) and the University of Edinburgh (open educational resources). This book is both accessible and comprehensive. Louise Ashton.

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The future of digital transformation is now

CILIP

Getting to grips with Digital Transformation within library and information services can feel like a haphazard affair ? For libraries and information services, different challenges have had to be overcome ? How do users access services or make requests if they are not in the same building? Rob Green looks at what?s

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Describing web archives: Learning from Archive-It partners and friends

Archive-It

Partners, collaborators, and peers gathered this week for Describing Web Archives , the latest in Archive-It’s Advanced Training series of webinars , and the second (with Access to Archive-It Collections ) to invite web archivists to take the lead in demonstrating their approaches to access and discovery.

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Archiving and describing mass tragedy: the Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada

Archive-It

Photo by Aaron Mayes (Curator for Visual Materials, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives). Reflecting on our mission to document Southern Nevada, we realized that we had a critical responsibility to preserve this history so we could study, remember, and reflect on it later.