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US National Archives Launches Founders Online

founders-online-screenshotYesterday the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), along with the University of Virginia Press launched a beta version of the Founders Online website. Founders Online provides free, searchable access to over 119,000 letters and other documents written and received by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. 

 
 

Membership Meeting 2013 (Spring): Academic Preservation Trust: Why? What? When? and How?

Presented at the 162nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 2013, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Martha Sites

pdf mm13sp-sites.pdf

 
 

Membership Meeting 2013 (Spring): Knowledge Designers

Presented at the 162nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 2013, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Katherine Rowe

pdf mm13sp-rowe.pdf

For more details on the Tempest app discussed in this presentation, see "The App's the Thing: Shakespeare, Rebooted," by David Zax for Fast Company.

 
 

Duke Libraries Uses Mellon Grant to Support Digital Classics

duke-u-papyrus-collection-fragmentFragment from Duke's papyrus collection, image © DukeDuke University Libraries is establishing a new unit, Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3), that will use digital technologies to analyze some of the world's oldest documents and artifacts. Funded by a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the DC3 will be led by Joshua D. Sosin, associate professor of classical studies and history at Duke, who will also assume a joint appointment within the libraries.

 
   

Scanning Maps: Quantifying Errors to Inform Future Image Capture Efforts

Poster presented at the LCDP Luminary Class, June 2012. In 2009, Stanford began an effort to scan its maps. Scanning large format items such as maps create a multitude of challenges. One of these challenges is to capture the map with specifications that meet all known repurposing needs. A prominent repurposing need is to ensure that the map can be consumed in a Geographic Information System (GIS). A team of Stanford University Library staff consisting of Patricia Carbajales, G. Salim Mohammed, Matt Pearson and Renzo Sanchez-Silva (noted here in alpha order) along with student assistants, conducted a detailed study of a Russian Topographic scanned map where details were visually inspected and checked for scanning errors.

pdf lcdp-2012-poster-g-salim-mohammed.pdf

 
     

Overview of the ARL/DLF E-Science Institute

The E-Science Institute is designed to help research libraries develop a strategic) agenda for e-research support, with a particular focus on the sciences. The Institute consists of a series of interactive modules that take small teams of individuals from research libraries through a six-month process to strengthen and advance their e-research support strategy.

pdf arl-dlf-escience-inst-overview-apr11.pdf

 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 262 (Feb. 2009)

RLI issue 262 includes the following articles:

  • The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship: A Call to Action
  • ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis
  • Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum
  • ARL Statistics: Redefining Serial Counts and Remaining Relevant in the 21st Century
 
 

Membership Meeting 2008 (Spring): Bamboo Planning Project

Bamboo is a community-driven cyberinfrastructure initiative that includes faculty and researchers engaged in humanistic inquiry, computer scientists and information scientists interested in innovative models for shared services, and librarians, academic content partners, campus information technologists and other professionals who want to work together across disciplinary, organizational, institutional, and geographical boundaries to better enable and foster innovation in the arts and humanities. Presented at the 152nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 2008.

pdf mm-152-kainz-faulhaber.pdf

 
     
 
 

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