Archive for the ‘Digitization’ Category
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Marginalia -- writing notes in the margins of books -- is not an exact fit for digital books. But the concept has been getting bantered about in a metaphorical sense to denote any kind of user annotation in digital texts. In my June article on Cathy Marshall's studies of user ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Kevin Kelly's long NY Times article in 2006 on Google Book Search has some elegant words on the transformative effect of digital books in general, beyond GBS. I'll precede excerpts from Kelly with bits from some of my recent articles, which resonate in interesting ways.
Kelly's comments parallel the static print ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
University of Utah has long been a pioneer in the digitization of medical visual resources, under the leadership of the Eccles Health Sciences library. Utah is especially notable for the wide variety of its resources, with strong collections in several basic biomedical and clinical areas.
Most of the Eccles digital image ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The Digital Library Collections at Yale Medical Library are notable for several reasons, especially the apparent emphasis that's being given to the effort by the library's administration -- The digital collections section of their website is featured prominently on all of the Collections pages on their site, as shown below.
Yale ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
New York Public Library is a rich source of digital resources, both text and images. This is especially interesting because they have done an excellent job in making connections from the library catalog (CATNYP) to digitized resources.
Because NYPL is an active participant in Google Books, their recent text digitization efforts ...
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