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  Harvard Library to Deposit 200,000 Volumes in HathiTrust

  597 readers From the press release: The Harvard Library will deposit approximately 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. This follows Harvard’s first deposit of approximately 53,000 volumes in HathiTrust in 2011. “The Harvard Library is committed to collaboration and easing access to its materials. Partnerships like this create significant opportunities for

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  Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online Arrives at Academic Institutions Worldwide

  623 readersFrom the press release: Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the availability of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a groundbreaking multi-year global digitization and publishing program.Nineteenth Century Collections Online brings together rare primary source materials – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps,

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  Rare seaside postcards and political cartoons launched online

  1039 readers From JISC: Political cartoons and rare seaside postcards once considered too saucy for publication are among 35,000 images to be launched online for the benefit of education and research. The images have been digitised and catalogued by the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent, following a grant from JISC. The seaside postcards are

• Cengage Digitizes 19th Century Texts, Part of Multi-Year Effort

  440 readers PRESS RELEASE: Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online Arrives at Academic Institutions Worldwide Archives Acquired by Several Institutions who are First in Research Farmington Hills, Mich., April 17, 2012 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the availability of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a groundbreaking

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  Charles Darwin’s Personal Library Now Available Online

  1802 readersCambridge University Library, in partnership with the Darwin Manuscripts Project, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library announced today that the first part of Charles Darwin’s personal scientific library is now available online. His collection, which spans over 1,400 titles, is in the process of being scanned and uploaded. 730 titles have margin notes written by Darwin,

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  British Library launches iPhone and Android apps for new exhibition

  558 readers From IntoMobile: In an effort that seems designed to reach modern smartphone users, British Library is launching mobile apps for iOS and Android devices for the upcoming exhibition. Titled “Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination,” it shows illuminated manuscripts collected by the kings and queens of England between the 9th and 16th

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  Wellcome Library and ProQuest team up to digitize 15,000 rare books

  1146 readersFrom The Wellcome Library Blog: As part of the Wellcome Digital Library pilot project, we’re joining forces with ProQuest to digitise over fifteen thousand volumes from our rare book collection. They will be made available through ProQuest’s new Early European Books (EEB) database – a sister project to the long-established and successful Early English Books Online. As

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  The World’s 20 Most Impressive University Special Collections

  1026 readers  Easily one of the neatest perks of campus life for the particularly inquisitive, studious, or proudly nerdy involves perusing the school’s special collections. Most tend to involve some combination of rare books and manuscripts as well as information about the school itself, local history, and maybe state history. Even smaller collections tend to harbor some

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  Darwin’s personal library put online

  1831 readersNotes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first time. Darwin’s personal scientific library, the majority of which is held at Cambridge University Library, has been digitised in a collaborative effort involving Cambridge, the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum

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  American University in Cairo Launches Rare Books and Special Collections Digital Library

  1404 readers via Bikya Masr: To preserve and provide access to centuries of Egyptian and Middle East history, The American University in Cairo recently launched the Rare Books and Special Collections Digital Library (RBSCDL). [Clip] The digital library is open and globally accessible, and will feature ancient and medieval cultural-heritage materials, in addition to contemporary contributions from the University on the Square: