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CollectionsDead Sea Scrolls to be digitizedSimon Tanner of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London is leading a team which is to digitise the Dead Sea Scrolls. Further information is available at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtID=2164.
Cornell to partner with Microsoft to digitize some of its library holdingsThis Cornell press release describes the partnership between the university, Microsoft, and Kirtas Technologies to digitize and make accessible through Microsoft's Live Book Search selected public domain materials in agriculture, American history, English literature, astronomy, food and wine, general engineering, the history of science, home economics, hospitality and travel, human sexuality, labor relations, Native American materials, ornithology, veterinary medicine, and women's studies.
European Digital LibraryThis press release, dated March 2, announced that the "European Commission steps up efforts to put Europe’s memory on the Web via a 'European Digital Library'." The first public version of the Library, which will contain at least six million documents, is now available.
Google to digitize US National Archives videoOn the Google blog today there is an annoucement that Google will be implementing a pilot project to digitize US National Archives' video footage, to be included in Google Video.
National Library of Australia and Flickr team upPictureAustralia is the NLA's virtual collection of images from a number of libraries, archives, and museums in that country. NLA has partnered with Flickr (more info here) to provide the opportunity for individuals to contribute to the national collection the fun and easy way. (Scraped from Lorcan Dempsey's weblog)
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division celebrates its millionth online imageThe image is of Washington Senators baseball player Herman A. "Germany" Schaefer using a camera during a visit to play the New York Highlanders in April 1911.
Google awards Library of Congress $3 million toward World Digital LibraryGoogle Inc. has agreed to donate $3 million toward the Library of Congress' World Digital Library initiative. Details are available in this press release and this article by James H. Billington in the Washington Post.
Wall Street Journal article on University of Toronto's involvement in the Internet Archive/Open Content AllianceThis article from the Nov. 9 WSJ introduces readers of that publication to the Open Content Alliance, and also provides some photos of the custom book scanners being used at the U of T and some details of their scanning operation.
Most downloaded title in the Million Book ProjectHa ha. While using the Million Book Project's page at the Internet Archive today, I noticed that the "Most Downloaded Items" sidebar supplies the following numbers: 1. Ethics Of Sex Acts: 9,177 downloads A book on sex is 300% more popular than Advanced English Grammar and Brief History Of Mathematics? Who'd have predicted that?
An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary LifeAs mentioned in today's Scout Report, An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life presents over 5000 photos taken by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Photos are arranged in fourteen categories (including People and Historical Figures, Misery, Religious Architecture, and Workers and Industry) and are accompanied by brief descriptions.
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