Category: Digital Library Digest

This week’s digest covers the digitization of Iranian manuscripts, the restoration of the New York Public Library’s budget, a call to action for librarians, and Wiley’s new head of open access projects.

This week’s digest features the preservation and digitization of Balinese lontar (palmyra leaf) manuscripts, the rise of the digital humanities, JSTOR’s new book program, and a look at the MyiLibrary e-book platform.

This week’s edition of the Digital Library Digest covers the ongoing battle between librarians and publishers over e-book access, a patent to deter textbook piracy, a new OA journal with a promising business model, and the debut of the Cervantes Institute’s virtual library.

This week’s DigLibDig covers the Ars Technica article on DPLA West, continued challenges of providing digital content & services in public libraries, the American Library Association call for information on library-as-publisher, and a newly-digital archive of Ernest Hemingway’s journalism.

This week’s DigLibDig covers the new DPLA video update from John Palfrey, the Justice Department ebook suit, ALA’s “State of America’s Libraries,” the DPLA Hack Day, and new content from ebrary.

This week’s DigLibDig covers Darnton’s talk at Columbia law, libraries on Facebook, the NYPL American Revolution digitization project, and a boycott on Random House.

This week’s DigLibDig covers an increase in physical library demand for digital services, a Syracuse School of Information Studies article on the DPLA, and the Houghton Rare Book Library’s new digitized materials.