Hamburg – Gothenburg August 2010
CCS’s Digital Library Quest is a scavenger hunt through digital libraries around the globe.
The treasure seeker has to solve three enigmas to find the words that are necessary for the solution. The “treasure map” will be available on stand C511 from August 10 – 15 on the IFLA congress and exhibition and online on the CCS website from August 16.
This past month, the Royal Dutch Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) launched its new website, of searchable, digital archives of historic newspapers. DDD processed many of these pages by performing quality assurance services for project lead Content Conversion Specialists.
This past month, the Royal Dutch Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) launched its new website, of searchable, digital archives of historic newspapers. DDD processed many of these pages by performing quality assurance services for project lead Content Conversion Specialists.
Everyone involved was so thrilled with the success of the project that we threw an international, virtual party to celebrate, with our team in Cambodia, and CCS in Germany and Romania. When the project is completed, eight million pages of historical newspapers will have been converted from dusty hard copies in storage to searchable and accessible articles online.
Our European Sales Team Representative Ed McLean gave some perspective on our historical newspapers projects: “Digitized papers once buried deep in paper archives reveal incredible things – this process opens them up to be discovered not just today but also in many years’, decades’ or centuries’ time. It is a window into how we used to live.”
CHICAGO – Christine Madsen, librarian and DPhil candidate, Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, has been awarded the 2010 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for her proposal “Library Futures: Building a New Knowledge Architecture in Academic Libraries.” The fellowship, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, fosters research in academic librarianship by encouraging and supporting dissertation research.
The award of $1,500 and a plaque will be presented during the joint ACRL / Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) Awards Program at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, June 26, at the 2010 ALA Annual Conference in Washington D.C.
“This project stood out in a very competitive field because of its originality and timeliness,” said Brian Doherty, chair of the selection committee and dean of the Jane Bancroft Cook Library at the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee. “Madsen’s concept of examining digitization projects in the humanities from the perspective of impact on the way scholarship is done opens up a new and important field of research.”
Hamburg – Gothenburg August 2010
