Microfilm? Are people still using that?
Are you kidding? Here’s what Bernie Madoff’s liquidation trustee Irving Picard had to say: “I expect these claim statistics will change as we continue to review and evaluate them. For example, we are finding that more than one claim may have been clipped together [and] are being broken apart. We [...]
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, by now you’ve heard about newspapers and books getting digitized and made accessible over the Internet or on the new ebook readers. I ran across a blog that illustrates exactly how one teacher is using digitized newspapers as an educational tool. What’s even cooler about it is that [...]
Until July 6, 2009, if you wanted to see any of the Codex Sinaiticus, touted as the world’s oldest Bible (and perhaps the first real book), you would need to travel to the British Library in London, the Monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai, the National Library in Russia, or the Leipzig University Library in [...]
Chronicling America made the news a couple of weeks ago for hitting the one million page mark. This project, started in 2007, is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, which in turn is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress, and the states, “to provide enhanced access to [...]
In couple of my previous blogs I talked about textbooks going digital, and how comfortable today’s young adult is with getting their “content” in digital format, be it on their computer, PDA, or cellphone. Now we have a university taking the initiative and making digital images from their rare collections available for viewing on your [...]
In my last blog I talked about school textbooks going digital. Now comes news from the Brigham Young University that their Harold B. Lee Library has purchased three of Amazon’s Kindle for interlibrary loans. It has started, folks.
Read more about this at LibraryJournal.com
On June 8, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his latest idea to save money for his money-crunched state: do away with textbooks. “Textbooks are outdated, in my opinion. For so many years, we’ve been trying to teach the kids exactly the same way. Our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded onto their [...]
My work at Heritage Microfilm involves partnering with libraries, historical and genealogical societies, museums, and in some cases local governments. We partner with them to digitize their documents, photographs, newspapers, etc., for the purpose of making this information more accessable to more people. Digitizing these items also makes them indexed better, and therefore easier [...]
