Just released: two new IFLA Standards
Just endorsed by the Professional Committee: Guidelines on Public Internet Access in Libraries and Guidelines for Setting Up a Digital Unification Project Read More
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- 29 August 2019
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Guidelines for Setting Up a Digital Unification Project
​IFLA has released its guidelines for setting up a digital unification project. These provide a checklist, and recommendations, for libraries in the planning, delivery, and finalisation of projects to provide digital access to collections across distance and borders. Libraries and archives throughout the world… Read More
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- 22 August 2019
Digital Unification: Case Studies
As part of its work, IFLA’s Digital Unification Working Group has collected a range of case studies. Links to these can be found here: Codex Siniaticus Glagolitic Script Europeana Regia James Joyce Manuscripts Korean Rare Books … Read More
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- 25 July 2019
Digital Francophone Library
Summary: The Réseau Francophone Numérique (RFN – Francophone Digital Network) is an association that brings together the French-speaking world’s greatest documentary institutions. It provides evidence, through unique but currently little known heritage collections, which are sometimes in danger of deterioration – of the intense cultural exchanges that have been made… Read More
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- 25 July 2019
Bibliothèques d’Orient
Summary: Bibliothèques d’Orient presents the interactions between Eastern Mediterranean countries and France over several centuries, with a particular focus on the period 1798-1945. From the moment it opens, this collaborative digital library bring together about 7,000 documents accompanied by almost 100 scientific contextualisation. These items can be accessed through 7… Read More
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- 25 July 2019
British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership
Summary: The project focus is primarily on digitization of the India Office Records in the archives of the British Library that relate to Gulf History with extended metadata and contextual articles on these topics. Additional elements include Manuscripts, Maps and Music related to the region. Type… Read More
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- 25 July 2019
France-Poland Digital Library
Summary: The France-Poland Digital Library offers the public a rare collection of documents on Franco-Polish relations. It brings together so far 1000 documents illustrating the richness and the constancy of the links which unite France and the Poland between the Renaissance and the Second World War. This project is part of… Read More
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- 25 July 2019
Library and Archives Canada’s Indigenous Documentary Heritage Initiatives
Summary: In 2017, the Government of Canada announced funding for Library and Archives Canada (LAC) to support the digitization of Indigenous documentary heritage. This has included both work to increase online access to the relevant holdings of Library and Archives Canada, and support and expertise to Indigenous communities in… Read More
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- 25 July 2019
Tulipana
Summary: The purpose of the Tulipana program is to secure the protection of cultural heritage of Dutch emigrants and expats in Brazil and also to make this material digitally accessible. Together with volunteers we worked on inventorising, conservation, digital access and making sources available. The project included… Read More
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- 25 July 2019
Digitization of Polish Jewish Historical Newspapers
Summary: The project focused on the digitisation of selected microfilms of Polish Jewish newspapers from the collections of National Library of Poland and make the materials avialiable via National Library of Israel website. Type of Project: The documents come from a single collection (at the Polish National… Read More
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- 25 July 2019