Since their inception, libraries have been repositories of knowledge, community centers, and integral to a democratic society. Academic library collections are the cornerstone of inquiry and research, ...

The Library of Congress has revealed that six awards totaling nearly $400,000 have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to Higher Education ...

This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the ...

Abu Dhabi, Feb 14th, 2011 (WAM) -- The National Library of Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) has joined the World Digital Library (WDL), an international project that places on line ...

Once again, the Library of Congress demonstrates how federal government should not only utilize information technology, but also market the initiatives to actually encourage support and adoption.

Academic digital library initiatives range from the digitization of specific collections of materials to elaborate state, national, or international organizations devoted to developing innovative ...

Nonprofit library technology cooperative OCLC—the company behind WorldCat, the world’s largest global catalog of library collections—has acquired CloudLibrary, a digital lending service platform ...

Following a formal procurement and evaluation process, Preservica will deliver a secure, cloud-based Digital Preservation platform to support the continuous acquisition, management, and long-term ...

Hundreds of students protesting the Israel-Palestine conflict at Princeton University last month made for an event to remember, but detailing how it happened—and preserving that memory for historical ...

The Vatican Library is digitizing its collection of more than 80,000 manuscripts. View of the city of Rome - Miniature of the Code De Civitate Dei by Saint Augustine, by Giovanni from Milano, Jacopo ...

The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...