Too lazy to make the trek to the library? There may be a solution on the horizon. Earlier this November, Yale University signed a contract with Microsoft to upload their entire library collection onto ...

The outpouring of support for the UBP digitization project and the creation of the digital library has spurred other ...

Any music lover knows that media formats come and go. Back in the mid-1990s, I was excited to start a collection of cassette tapes when I received a portable cassette player for my 13th birthday. CDs ...

After the recent collapse of an ambitious digitization project, most of Yale’s books will remain exclusively on shelves — at least for now. In May, only seven months into what was supposed to be an 18 ...

The ability to digitize hard copies, the proliferation of born-digital content, and increased access to online distribution hold the promise of improved access to library materials. Despite these ...

Earlier this month, library digitization assistant Kelly Perry placed an 1845 German medical history book on a machine three times her size. Perry can choose to turn the pages herself, but on this ...

Thanks to a Library Services and Technology Act grant, the Jacob Edwards Library was able to have many high school yearbooks digitized from archives. The project was officially completed in early May, ...

Ricky publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. While we are increasingly living in a more ...

As students and faculty spent spring break adjusting to the news they would be completing the spring 2020 semester via remote learning, staff at the Sheridan Libraries began digitizing books, articles ...

Couple at the cemetery, Last Memorial Day, 1956. Pirkle Jones, from (Special Collections & Archives, University Library, UC Santa Cruz). Children behind chain fence, 1948. Ruth-Marion Baruch, from ...

FOR YOUR MONEY. NOW RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU HAVE A PILE OF OLD PHOTOS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN AVOIDING. OR MAYBE VHS TAPES OF YOUR FAMILY MEMORIES, MAYBE AUDIOTAPES, YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO GET THEM DIGITIZED ...

Throughout the Civil War and the years leading up to it, Massachusetts was home to abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel May, the Weston sisters and many others. The Boston Public Library is ...