Category: Library & Information Science
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Comprehensive reference for managing special collections publishes in a new third edition
Facet Publishing announce the publication of The Special Collections Handbook, third edition. The dynamic sector of collections development is constantly changing. In The Special Collections Handbook, 3rd ed. Alison Cullingford has updated her comprehensive desk reference to grapple with the most complex issues of the moment, including guidance on decolonising special collections, the drive towards […]
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New resource for librarians provides a comprehensive foundation in building a metadata strategy for digital libraries
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Metadata in the Digital Library by Richard Gartner Producing metadata can be a prolonged and expensive process, and the range of metadata needed to run a digital library and preserve its collections in the long term is much more extensive and complicated than anything in its traditional counterpart. […]
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Digital Humanities in Asia-Pacific: A Webinar Recap
Last Friday I convened a Digital Friday webinar called Digital Humanities in Asia-Pacific with University Librarian of UC Merced Haipeng Li and Academic Librarian of New Jersey City University Min Chou. With Shu-han Rebekah Wong from Hong Kong Baptist University, both are co-editors of the newest edited volume called Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends […]
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Adventures in the Archive: Text Mining Pan Am Periodicals
Adventures in the Archive: Text Mining Pan Am Periodicals Pan American Airlines was the major international airline for much of the 20thcentury, the United State’s unofficial national airline, and responsible for many of the innovations in air travel that are still with us today. Following bankruptcy in 1991, University of Miami acquired its archives and, […]
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Valuable insight into social tagging as a form of linked data
Facet Publishing announce the release of Social Tagging in a Linked Data Environment, edited by Dr Diane Rasmussen Pennington and Dr Louise Spiteri Social tagging (including hashtags) is used over platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, WordPress, Tumblr and YouTube across countries and cultures meaning that one single hashtag can link information from a variety […]
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Information Rights for Records Managers
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Information Rights for Records Managers by Rachel Maguire, Records Manager and Data Protection Officer at the London School of Economics. Information Rights is a term covering legislation that allows the request of information from a public sector organisation. This book will help records managers, information managers, archivists and […]
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New edition of Philip Hider’s essential information organization textbook
Facet Publishing have announced the release of the second edition of Information Resource Description: Creating and managing metadata. The second edition of Information Resource Description provides an overview of the range of activities and the products of these activities collectively referred to as ‘information organization’ and will be ideal for LIS students, information professionals wishing […]
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New edition of the go-to reference for students and RIM professionals
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Records and Information Management, 2nd edition by Patricia C Franks. The first edition of Records and Information Management was described by Archives and Records as, ‘a valuable up to date combined textbook and reference book which will enhance its readers’ knowledge irrespective of their place on the career ladder’. […]
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New book imagines the archive of the future
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Archival Futures edited by Caroline Brown. It is widely acknowledged that the archival discipline is facing a time of change. The digital world has presented changes in how records are created, used, stored and communicated. At the same time, there is increased public debate over issues such as ownership […]
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From Archive Data to DH Practice: Starting a new Digital Humanities Project
At the University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC), archivist Amanda Moreno has been collaborating with the Digital Humanities Support team of the Richter Libraries to create “Global Cuba Collections,” a digital map of Cuban archives located in the U.S. and around the world. Below, I discuss some of the initial steps in developing “Global […]