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

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They were discoverable in our library catalog Ex Libris Primo but would potentially be behind a paywall depending on who the viewer was. Challenges ProQuest supplied the theses in PDF format on hard drives in batches, each batch was accompanied by a file of metadata in MARC format. The final step was to surface it in Primo.

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Book reviews: a call to arms for open licensing

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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). British Library. Louise Ashton. & Saunderson, F.

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The future of digital transformation is now

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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 ? Rob Green looks at what?s s on offer and why it matters. especially considering the last 18 months.

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

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Deborah Kempe (Chief, Collections Management & Access at the Frick Art Reference Library of the Frick Collection) introduced the mandate to archive and describe websites for union library catalog access among the member institutions of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC).

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

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Increased Collaboration : Digital archives can facilitate collaboration among archives, libraries and researchers, allowing for the sharing of information and resources on a global scale. Start your Digital Preservation journey today!

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

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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.

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Feature Spotlight: Internal Seeds Groups

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As of March 2023, the top names given to these internal seed groups were: ‘Fix’ (21) ‘7’ (7) A three-way tie: ‘Twitter’ (5), ‘QA seeds’ (5), ‘needs metadata’ (5) And of course there were many unique group names, meaningful perhaps only to those at the organizations.