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 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 Collections, Current global topics, Manuscripts and old prints, Newspapers, Reference works, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor, tagged British Library, digitizing, Google, information carriers, Open Rights Group on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Open Rights Group has invoked the British Freedom of Information Act to gain a copy of the contract between Google and the 
British Library and has published it online. In most cases, the contracts Google makes with libraries concerned with digitalizing collections are not disclosed. The British Library normally publishes all its contracts, but the one with Google was neve
r voluntarily made public.
ORG wanted to know which terms and restrictions were linked to the digitalisation of 250.000 books from the library by Google. As it turns out, Google has more rights to use the scanned documents than the British Library itself. The Library can show the books on its website, but it can not use them commercially. Even more, it has to make sure the texts are not downloaded and forwarded in any way. Google can exploit them.
The books are in the public domain, on which there are no longer any copyrights.
Source: http://www.informatieprofessional.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8761&Itemid=79
Posted in Collections, Student/researcher, tagged catalogue, changes, digitizing, journals on September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From this academic year on, the various collections of the K.U.Leuven libraries are searchable through a new interface. The Limo search engine offers access to the books and journals of the K.U.Leuven libraries and also to databases and e-journals to which the university has a subscription. All the publications of our own researchers, which are stored in Lirias, are also accessible.
The possibility to search in printed and electronic documents at the same time is the biggest advantage of Limo. The results are ranked according to their relevance and facets (filters) enable users to refine their search.
On this moment the university library of K.U.Leuven is the only university library in Belgium who has such a tool.
Source: Dagkrant K.U.Leuven
Posted in Uncategorized, Visitor, Collections, Academic collection, Organization, Student/researcher, Current global topics, tagged digitizing, information carriers, journals, needs on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Born‐digital material – content that has been created digitally and does not have an analog equivalent - still has a great risk of disappearing. In many cases, it is not quite clear who is responsible for collecting and preserving it.
UKB, the cooperative of the thirteen Dutch university lib
raries and the Royal Library, has established an Born-digital Special Collections Commission, to see which role the Departments of Special Collections of the university libraries can play in preserving this special kind of heritage.
The rapport Born digital Bijzondere Collecties is now available on the website of the Nederlandse Nationale Coalitie Digitale Duurzaamheid (NCDD). It inventarises the kinds of materials being threatened and the international methods on the field, and makes recommendations for the role of the Special Collections Department.
The rapport itself – which has an English summary – can also be found in the documentation overview of the Flemish Heritage Library.
Source: Nationale Coalitie Digitale Duurzaamheid and http://www.vlaamse-erfgoedbibliotheek.be/node/1995
Posted in Collections, Organization, Visitor, tagged digitizing, exhibition on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From September 15th until December 31st, the Central Library of K.U.Leuven hosts an exhibition of pictures, prints and drawings, on which the city of Leuven is depicted. The exposition is linked to the collective initiative of Museum M, the City Archive and the Central Library to make the old city views from their collection online available. From September 15th on, the website www.vensteropleuven.be will let you discover some old city views of Leuven.
Source: Erfgoedcel Leuven en Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek
Posted in Collections, Current global topics, Government publications, Organization, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor, tagged digitizing, information carriers on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Research Librairies UK (RLUK) has recently published its second strategic plans for the period 2011-2014, entitled “The Power of Knowledge”. Some goals will help shape the scientific library of the 21st century, others are researching new ways of coping with more traditional challenges, suc has the care for a unique and distinctive print and heritage collection.
You can download the full pans on the RLUK website.
Posted in Collections, Current global topics, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor, tagged catalogue, digitizing, user survey on September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources and audio-visual collections of Europe’s museums, libraries and archives. The results of a survey among more than 5000 users of Europeana, were recently published. According to the respondents of this Europeana Online Visitor Survey, the content of Europeana is much more useful and reliable compared to similar websites.
More information can be found in the summary or the full report.
Source: Europeana and Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek.
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