Category: Reports

From Gutenberg (The Project) To Kindle: The Evolution Of A Digital Library

September 30, 2009 No Comments

This presentation analyzes the nine-year experience of an academic digital library, e-Asia, which now holds over 4,000 items. In many respects, the e-Asia library is a long-running experiment. Yet the project is mature enough to provided lessons in what to do (and what not to do) when digital text is the focus of collection building. Unlike traditional libraries where, over time, books migrate to and from their shelves, digital libraries hold content that remains relatively immobile while it is the digital “shelves” that change and migrate over time.

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UC San Diego Google Mass Digitization Project

October 30, 2008 No Comments

n April 2008, the University of California, San Diego sent its first shipment of books to be digitized as part of the Google Book Search Library Project, a global effort launched in 2004 to digitize collections from the world’s top universities and libraries to make them searchable and discoverable online.

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UCLA Digital Library Program

October 30, 2008 No Comments

This paper explores the principles that underpin the the digital library program at UCLA, examples of collections being digitized, and the partnerships being developed to enhance the digital library collections, including discussion of the collaborative nature of creating metadata, joint projects, and collaborative agreements.

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The University of Hong Kong: Two Project Updates

October 15, 2008 No Comments

The University of Hong Kong Libraries has begun two initiatives this year employing IT to improve its services to readers:
Rare Book Digitisation Project. The Libraries have allowed the iGroup to set up a scanning shop in its Main Library. Initially it will be used to scan 4,000 western language monographs in its rare book collection dealing mainly with China. It will then be used for other special collections projects.
RFID: The Libraries have partnered with the university’s own E-Business Technology Institute (ETI), IBM, and Tagsys to employ RFID technology in 1.3 million volumes in its Main Librar

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Repository of Special Collections in Chinese Academic Libraries

October 14, 2008 No Comments

The Repository of Special Collections (RSC) is a sub-project of China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS) during China’s tenth Five-years Plan. It is headed by Wuhan University Library and follows unified Digital Library standards and protocols such as Metadata Standards, OAI Protocol, OpenURL and METS. Fifty-two academic libraries have joined the project. Within three years of development, 58 of 63 sub-projects passed the peer review of Project Expert Board in 2007 and began to serve the public.

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The Chinese Canadian Migration Project

October 13, 2008 No Comments

Recently one of my history colleagues and I completed the digitization of the Register of Chinese Immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1949.  The list includes just under 100,000 names of individual immigrants, most of whom paid an entry tax designed to limit immigration from China to Canada.  Our intent has always been to allow public access to this information for research purposes, and to this end we have entered into a partnership with Library and Archives Canada that now allows the database to be used for genealogical research.  While I began this project as an historian, when I started my work in the UBC Library I could see new opportunities for collaboration with librarians and, by extension, similar collaborative opportunities for many faculty members in the social sciences and humanities.  My presentation outlines the nature of the research project, identify some of its preliminary findings, and comments on the possibilities for new forms of collaboration.

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