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History: NARA Releases DocsTeach App for iPad
Archives and Special Collections, Maps, Patrons and Users, Resources
|The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released the app DocsTeach iPad app (version 1.0) about two weeks ago. From Fedscoop: The app allows iPad users to: Choose a historical era or topic to find an activity based on primary source documents such as the US Constitution, the canceled check for the purchase of […]
A Roundup of R.M.S. Titanic Resources
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|New on Search Engine Land (where I’m a contributing editor) is a post listing a bunch of Titanic-related resources (databases, video, images, etc.). As you know, Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the ships sinking. The roundup includes resources from the Library of Congress, BBC, National Archives (UK), NARA, C-SPAN, and others. Direct to Article: […]
New Digital Resource From Carnegie Library: Pittsburgh Iron and Steel Heritage Collection
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has opened a digital archive that will let Internet users worldwide view more than a half million pages of historical documents about the city’s iron and steel heritage. The library’s Pittsburgh Iron and Steel Heritage Collection — now online at www.carnegielibrary.org/ironsteel — contains more than 500,000 […]
New European Project Will Digitize Up to 650 Hours of World War I Film Footage
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Resources
|From europeana: Films about World War 1 that have never been seen outside a cinema or on television are to be made available on the internet for the first time ever. The European Film Gateway 1914 (EFG1914) plans to digitise up to 650 hours of footage and make it freely accessible via europeana.eu, Europe’s digital […]
Video of the interview series hosted by the late Mike Wallace are available via the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. 65 programs are available for online viewing. Each program includes a text transcript. The Mike Wallace Interview ran from 1957 to 1960, but the Ransom Center collection includes interviews from […]
Direct to The National Recovery Administration (NRA): An Inventory of Publications in the Collections of the Library of Congress This guide represents an inventory of several of the major series issued by the United States National Recovery Administration between 1933 and 1935, which are available in the general collections of the Library of Congress. The […]
via Reuters: The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online. The libraries said the digitized collections will centre on three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books and Hebrew manuscripts […]
A new blog post from Ancestry.com reports that the company has now made all scanned images (more than 3.8 million) of the 1940 U.S. Census available on their platform. The company also points out that they’ve indexed all of the names found in the 1940 Census for two states, Nevada and Delaware, and made those […]
From the Troy Record: When 28,969 New York National Guard soldiers mobilized in the fall of 1940 as the United States prepared for war, clerks filled out six-by-four inch cards on each individual. Now, thanks to a team of 15 volunteers, those records — listing names, serial number, home and unit, and later annotated with […]
From LoHud.com: When librarian Brian Jennings decided he wanted to digitize a bit of Rockland’s historical connection to famed American painter Edward Hopper, he took a unique approach to raise money. As the local history librarian at the Nyack Library, Jennings’ plan was take microfilm copies of the Rockland County Journal from 1890 to 1892 […]