Posted in Current global topics, Organization, Student/researcher, tagged digitizing, information carriers, web 2.0 on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Until November 25th the newest developments regarding the use of virtual and augmented reality in the cultural heritage field are on display in the ErfgoedLab of the University of Amsterdam. Four professional parties will be presenting the possibilities of virtual applications in heritage (re)presentations. In this, the smartphone takes the central stage.
Source: Informatieprofessional.nl
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The university library of Louvain has recently finished the digitalization of the Belgian newspaper
“De Legerbode”. The issues 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918 are now available in full text via Limo and the Abraham journal database.
This military newspaper, published by the Ministry of Defence appeared about three times a week. Throughout the war, it played an important role in information and propaganda and was first and foremost meant for the soldiers. Each company, squadron or battery received ten French and ten Dutch copies.
It is a rich source of information regarding the history of the First World War in Belgium. The digitalization of this collection links up perfectly with the growing attention for the Great War in Europe and the numerous initiatives in the making for its centennial (1914-2014).
Posted in Collections, Current global topics, Manuscripts and old prints, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known Bible texts, are now available online. Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolles Digital Project, these ancient m
anuscripts can be studied and explored into the finest detail. The Israel Museum has developed the new website in collaboration with Google and allows access to high resolution images of the scrolls, together with some short information videos and background information regarding the texts and their history. Thusfar, five scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitalised: The Great Isaiah Scroll, the Temple Scroll, the War Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll and the Commentary on the Habakkuk Scroll.
Posted in Academic collection, Collections, Current global topics, Government publications, Organization, Student/researcher, Uncategorized on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Several Dutc
h universities have taken an intrest in storing research data in the ‘cloud’. It is possible to arrange the storage of that kind of data in a common environment, hosted by an institution. That is a conclusion of the project Podium Plus, financed by SURFfoundation and executed by the University of utrecht between September 2010 and June 2011. The project found that universities that use Dataverse-software are able to archive and disclose data. In the future, this software can be used as a front portal for durable storage of research data in long-term archives, supported by e.g. DANS and the 3TU Datacentrum.
Source: http://www.informatieprofessional.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8807&Itemid=79
Posted in Academic collection, Collections, Current global topics, Government publications, Manuscripts and old prints, Newspapers, Organization, Reference works, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today (Friday 21.10.2011) the company Nedap installed new detection devices on the ground floor of the Central Library.
This is the first and most visible part of an ongoing RFID project.
Posted in Collections, Newspapers, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, tagged Dutch Royal Library, Newspapers, web on October 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
TheRoyal Library of the Netherlands has expanded its webdienst Historische Kranten (webservice Historical Newspaper
s) with an extra 500,000 pages, thereby offering a total of two million pages. The papers, spanning four centuries, are from all over the Netherlands, Suriname and the Caribbean. For the first time, there are also some post-war papers available, such as the Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, the Amigoe di Curaçao and the Juinensche courant. The Royal Library has switched to new software, so the site’s performance has improved as well. Till the end of next year, the site will be expanded from two to nine million pages.
Posted in Academic collection, Collections, Current global topics, Organization, Reference works, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor, tagged British Library, digitizing, Google, Royal Library Netherlands on October 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On July 14 2011 the Dutch Royal Library and Google signed a contract for digitalizing 16.000 boo
ks, free from copyright, from the collection of the Royal Library.
In light of a request in the UK to make public the details of a contract between the British Library and Google on the basis of the Freedom of Information Act, the Royal Library has now received two requests to reveal the details of its contract with Google, based on a similar law in the Netherlands.
It unusual for the Library to publish its contracts with partners, but there are no big objections which could prevent such a publication. The Royal Library has therefore decided to honour the request and publish its contract (pdf) for any interested people.
Source: http://www.informatieprofessional.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8796&Itemid=79
Posted in Collections, Student/researcher, tagged digitizing, results, user survey on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Google is incredibly popular among students, however their research skills are not always adequate. The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries Project (ERIAL) examined the research strategies of students in five universities in Illinois. The complete results will soon be published as ‘Libraries and Student Culture: What We Now Know’ by the American Library Association (ALA).
Also a remarkable finding of the survey is that students barely ask questions in libraries. This is because students overestimate their own research skills. If they cannot find anything, they do not realize they might have used the wrong research strategy.
More preliminary results of the survey can be found here.
Source: Informatieprofessional.nl
Posted in Collections, Current global topics, Newspapers, Organization, Reference works, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor, tagged digitizing, orphan works, web on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The University of Michigan has, through its Orphan Works Project, published thousands of orphan works online. This has caused some controversy because of the copyrights. Other libraries, including the University of California Cornell, Duke and John Hopkins, have already announced they are going to follow Michigan’s lead in publishing their orphan works.
The libraries are all part of the HathiTrust consortium. They publish the books in a shared repository online. One publisher has already reacted and called the publishing of orphan works “illegal”, according to the weblog Wired Campus.
The University of Michigan has tried to track down the copyright owners of the books, to no avail. The full texts of the orphan works will only be available on campus.
Source: http://www.informatieprofessional.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8762&Itemid=79
Posted in Academic collection, Collections, Current global topics, Government publications, Manuscripts and old prints, Newspapers, Organization, Reference works, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor on October 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Thursday 13th of October, the Central Library welcomes a part of the EuroIndia Summit 2011, mainly in the Main Reading Room and on the ground floor.
This day it will be extra crowded in our building, with 150 conference guests. The Main Reading Room will be inaccessible that day.
Our customers are still able to use the ILL service, the Small Reading Room, the Ladeuze-room, the East Asian Library, the Tabularium and the University Archives.
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