How bad is it? Researchers Identify Common Digitization Blunders
September 13, 2012By Paul Conway, PhD, Associate Professor School of Information at the University of Michigan Made possible with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, HathiTrust is the test bed for research into a valid model that measures the frequency and severity of digitization error in large-scale digital repositories.
Databib is Tackling Tough Data Sharing Problems
September 7, 2012By Michael Witt Principal Investigator and Editor-in-Chief of Databib A new resource called Databib has been created to help people identify and locate online repositories of research data.
National Leadership Grant Video: Queensborough Community College
September 6, 2012By Kevin O'Connell, IMLS Writer-Editor In this video interview, Patricia Lannes and Kitty Bateman explain an IMLS-funded project that seeks to make art museums more accessible to immigrants. Cultures & Literacies Through Art for the 21st Century (CALTA21) accomplishes this goal by building partnerships between museums and institutions that teach English as a second language.
Behind the Scenes: Theater Archives and the Documentation of a Legacy
August 30, 2012By Sara Zettervall, MFA Project Manager, University of Minnesota Libraries What are theaters across the nation doing (or not doing) to create archives of their productions?
The Last Frontier
August 28, 2012By Timothy Owens, IMLS Senior Program Officer Alaska. Denali. Glaciers. Moose. Salmon. Bears. Midnight sun. Endless wilderness. Largest state in the union. Libraries in communities with no roads to link them. Talk about rural and small libraries! Even Juneau, the capital city, has no roads connecting to the rest of the state.
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National Leadership Grant Video: Chicago Zoo's Welfare Track
August 24, 2012By Kevin O'Connell, IMLS Writer-Editor In this video interview, Jessica Whitman, Animal Welfare Biologist, and Tom Meehan, Vice President of Veterinary Services, describe the Chicago Zoological Society's Welfare Track project, an IMLS-funded project that explores new ways of monitoring the wellness of zoo animals.
Is a Village Post Office Coming to a Library Near You?
August 22, 2012By Susan Hildreth Director, IMLS Nearly 13,000 of the more than 31,000 U.S. post offices are likely to see reduced hours in the future. When a rural post office reduces hours, people often feel that in addition to losing a place to receive and send mail, they have lost a place that gives their community an identity and a place where neighbors can meet and share news.
SafeArchive Promises to Preserve Digital Collections
August 17, 2012By Thu-Mai Christian, Graduate Research Assistant H. W.
Eureka! Job Fair in Georgetown County, SC, a Big Success
August 15, 2012By Dwight McInvaill Director of the Georgetown County Library of South Carolina Eureka moments are good ones, aren’t they? In a flash, an idea leaps a gap, becomes a reality, and helps to solve problems! Imagining and then hosting our first job fair at the Georgetown County Library of South Carolina last week was a wonderful instance of such success. When 150 citizens entered my public library… Read more
One Good Thing Leads to Another: Santa Ana Public Library Builds on IMLS Grant
August 10, 2012By Heather Folmar, Library Services Manager Santa Ana Public Library The excitement generated by the decision of IMLS to award a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant to the Santa Ana Public Library was enormous. We began to look for ways to expand and extend the opportunities the grant offered our young people.