digitizationblog News on digitization in libraries and allied institutions

This month's D-Lib has articles on personal digital libraries and collections, OAI harvesting, and Trusted Digital Repositories.

As reported back in April, this conference on historic newspaper digitization will be held July 18 in Denver, Colorado. More information is now available, including a speakers list and agenda.

The Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce that it will be delivering a two-day workshop on long term-curation and persistent identifiers. This event will be held in Glasgow from 30 June - 1 July 2005. This event is being held in cooperation with the Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS) and UKOLN.

The Illinois Digitization Institute at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in partnership with the Illinois State Library and the Illinois Heritage Association, is offering a Basics and Beyond on-line digitization training courses July 11-29, 2005. More information is available at the UIUC Library's website.

As reported on Digitization 101, SearchEngineWatch has a writeup on the University of Michigan's involvement with Google Print and points to the agreement document (which, BTW, is marked "confidential").