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Digital Library of the week: The National Park Service E-Library
The American Library Association's digital library of the week is The National Park Service E-Library.
- Digital library of the week: The National Park Service E-Library, American Library Association "ILoveLibaries.org" (May 20th, 2010) The collection houses information on all aspects of the NPS mission since its August 25, 1916, founding. Subject matter includes archeological and anthropological research, history and natural history, urban ecology, wildlife, and geology.
GPO to migrate to PURLZ
Well this is good news to anyone who remembers the great GPO purl crash of ought-9. GPO just announced the contract for upgrading their permanent URL architecture, migrating to PURLZ. I hope they'll build participation by depository libraries into their new architecture. It would be great to have a failsafe on non-.gov servers as well.
GPO is pleased to announce that a contract for upgrading the PURL Server architecture and hosting the new solution has been awarded to Zepheira. The new PURL architecture provides greater flexibility, new features, and the scalability to face an increased demand for PURLs. GPO is currently in the process of migrating to this new architecture (PURLS to PURLZ.) This transition boasts many benefits, including: * A more robust system architecture * Immediate system back-up through synchronization * Immediate system fail-over * Enhanced statistical reporting * Enhanced Web referral reporting * Improved speed for resolution of redirects The targeted date for the transition to this new architecture is summer 2010. More information will be forthcoming at the Spring Depository Library Council Meeting in Buffalo, New York (April 26 - 28, 2010) and via the FDLP Desktop and fdlp-l.Continue reading
Government Comics Collection is Digital Library of the Week
Government Comics Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, American Library Association, ILoveLibraries.org, December 10th, 2009.
The Government Comics Collection at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a database of more than 180 comic books and related items, such as congressional hearings dealing with comics.... Media Services Librarian Richard Graham worked from fall 2007 to spring 2009 to launch this collection, which continues to grow. Most of the materials he has gathered were created by governments and given to citizens or soldiers as a sort of crash course in foreign culture and relations during critical times, such as the onset of World War I. Included are documents from federal and state governments in the United States as well as comics created by the United Nations, European Union, Canada, and Ghana.Continue reading
Do zombies care about digital preservation?
I guess this is the day of big thoughts :-) “How secure is our civilization’s accumulated knowledge?” This is the question mulled over by Richard Heinberg in his essay Our Evanescent Culture and the Awesome Duty of Librarians. “Ultimately,” Heinberg writes,
the entire project of digitized cultural preservation depends on one thing: electricity. As soon as the power goes off, access to the Internet goes down. CDs and DVDs become meaningless plastic disks; e-books become inscrutable and useless; digital archives become as illegible as cuneiform tablets — or more so. Altogether, digitization represents a huge bet on society’s ability to keep the lights on forever . . . . It’s ironic to think that the cave paintings of Lascaux may be far more durable than the photos from the Hubble space telescope. Altogether, if the lights were to go out now, in just a century or two the vast majority of our recently recorded knowledge would be gone or inaccessible.This isn't just an idle thought experiment. With GPO, FDLP libraries, Google, Internet Archive etc actively engaged in and/or planning for massive digitization of the historic record of the US govt. Matt Cardin of The Teeming Brain expounds on Heinberg's essay and makes some good points in "Zombies, Digital Media, and Cultural Preservation in the New Dark Age". [Thanks for the tweet about this ArchivesNext!] Continue reading
Partnering With GPO
GPO recognizes that with the ever-increasing amount of electronic U.S. Government information, we need your help! Since 1997, depository libraries have worked with GPO to ensure permanent public access to electronic content and to provide services to assist other depositories and the public by becoming a GPO partner. Our recent partnerships include:
- Government Information Online: Ask A Librarian
- Homeland Security Digital Library
- Historical Publications of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
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