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On Google and Usenet

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

The article begins with one paragraph about Google Book Search but the story actually focuses on the Usenet archive (Google Groups).

From the Article by Kevin Poulsen:

…a few geeks with long memories remember the last time Google assembled a giant library that promised to rescue orphaned content for future generations. And the tattered remnants of that online archive are a cautionary tale in what happens when Google simply loses interest.

That library is Usenet, a vast internet- and dial-up-based message board system erected in 1980. Though moribund today, for decades Usenet was the paper of record for the online world, and its hundreds of millions of “newsgroup” postings chronicle everything from the birth of the web to the rise of Microsoft, as well as more trivial matters.

In February 2001, Google rescued that history when it acquired the New York-based Deja.com, and with it a Usenet archive going back to 1995. It turned the archive into Google Groups, in a move that was cheered by net geeks who had seen Deja’s reliability declining, and were certain that the supremely competent Google would save it.

[Snip]

Flash forward nearly eight years, and visiting Google Groups is like touring ancient ruins.

[Snip]

Searching within a newsgroup, even one with thousands of posts, produces no results at all. Confining a search to a range of dates also fails silently, bulldozing the most obvious path to exploring an archive.

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“The search results are extremely poor,” says network pioneer Brad Templeton. “Like nobody cares.”

Henry Spencer, whose Usenet archive forms much of Google Groups, is troubled by the company’s curatorship. “Google does get a lot of credit for putting it together and making it available,” Spencer says. “But search capabilities are important for such a large collection of data. The archive’s value to the community is considerably reduced if it’s not conveniently searchable.”

Source: Wired

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Fun! The Wayback Machine Mentioned on Network Television Program

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Cool!

Internet Archive News alerts us to the fact that the essential Wayback Machine (TWM) (a service of the Internet Archive) was mentioned on Law and Order SVU in the past couple of weeks.

The IA blog post has a text summary of the show and includes the TWM mention (via the All Things Law and Order Blog). If you want to view the complete episode, it’s available via iTunes. The title is “Sugar.”

Source: Internet Archive Blog

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Just in Time for the Major League Playoffs and World Series: Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress Web Guide

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Access the Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress Web Guide

From the Introduction:

Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress is a [new] guide [released on September 25, 2009] to baseball resources available on the Library’s Web site and in its physical collections. The breadth and depth of materials highlighted will appeal to baseball researchers, while casual and diehard fans alike will find many digitized items documenting the history of baseball to fuel their passion for the game.

The guide is divided into four major sections: Library of Congress Online Resources, which presents baseball materials freely available on the Library’s Web site; Conducting Baseball Research at the Library, for researchers interested in locating baseball materials off-site through the Library’s online catalog and on-site through the Library’s subscription databases and divisional holdings; External Resources, a gateway to other baseball Web sites; and Bibliography, a selected bibliography of print resources about baseball for adults and younger readers.

This Web Guide was compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist.

Access the Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress Web Guide

See Also:
Topics in Chronicling America – Baseball’s Modern World Series
The information and sample article links [in this guide] provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in the Chronicling America: American Historic Newspapers digital collection [online, at no charge]. Use the Suggested Search Terms and Dates to explore this topic further in Chronicling America.

Source: Library of Congress

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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Issues Presidential Libraries Reform Report to Congress

Monday, October 5th, 2009

From an Article:

The National Archives and Records Administration this week submitted a report to Congress detailing alternative models to the current Presidential Library system.

The Presidential Historical Records Preservation Act of 2008 [PL 110-404] had tasked NARA with developing plans to reduce the financial burden of the libraries on the Federal Government, improve the preservation of Presidential records, and reduces delays in public access to Presidential records.

You Can Read a Summary of the Report Written by the Coalition for History and/or Access the Full Text Report from NARA (87 pages; PDF)

Source: Coalition for History

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Legal Delays Have Blown a Hole in UK’s Digital Heritage

Monday, October 5th, 2009

From the Article:

Digital literature, online scientific research and internet journalism that should have been saved in the nation’s main libraries over the past five years may have been lost because ministers have failed to give them the legal power to copy and archive websites, the Guardian has learned.

Lost digital archive: ‘It’s taken 6 years to begin consultation’ Link to this audio Senior executives at the British Library and the National Library of Scotland (NLS) are dismayed that legislation giving them the right to collect online and digital material is still not in force, more than six years after it was passed by parliament.

The omission has meant the libraries – which are legally required to archive books, newspapers and journals – have failed to record online coverage of major events such as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the release of the Lockerbie bomber and the MPs’ expenses scandal.

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Phil Spence, head of operations at the British Library, said the failure had left a major “digital black hole” in the library’s collections, with huge gaps in the archives for researchers, scientists and historians.

It meant the British Library was unable to store the BBC’s website, the National Gallery or British Museum website, any UK newspapers’ websites, or scientific journals published online because of copyright issues. Blogs, community pages, government and business websites can only be archived after laborious voluntary agreements. The act would protect the libraries against copying defamatory material, but would also protect a publisher’s copyright.

“We’ve lost five years of digital content which is gone potentially for ever, and the ability of the nation to capitalise on that as well,” he said.

Much More in the Full Text Article Including a 3.5 Minute Audio Report

Source: The Guardian

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Online Databases from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

From the Web Site Home Page:

Over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music are available for your viewing. Each collection has its own web site that is unrestricted in the interests of knowledge and learning.

You can learn more about each collection by beginning with this page.

Each “about” page also contains a direct link to that specific collection. 17 collections are listed.

Direct links to to the search interfaces for some of the collections are also available (via a drop down menu on the home page).

Source: SCETI (from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries)

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Report From Digital Preservation Workshop Held in DC

Monday, October 5th, 2009

From the Report:

Over twenty Library of Congress staff had an opportunity to participate in a special workshop, Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems, hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, held September 21-22, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Initially developed at the Cornell University Library and supported with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Digital Preservation Management workshops are structured curricula geared toward managing digital preservation planning and policies for libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. The goal of the workshop is to provide those managers and staff responsible for digital assets the practical means to exercise stewardship in an age of technological change. Many institutions struggle with the initial stages of developing digital preservation policies, and the workshop aides participants in understanding the fundamental pieces of how to think about and enact planning for organizations.

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The next five-day workshops will be held October 11-16, 2009 at the University of Michigan – where Martha Anderson, director of program management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, will be the keynote speaker – and June 13-18, 2010 at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information about the workshops, please visit: www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/fiveday.html.

Source: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program / Library of Congress

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Middle East Images in the Prints and Photographs Division: Subject Overview

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

From the Introduction:

The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (P&P) has numerous varied and unique collections of Middle East images. This visual material includes photographic prints, negatives, albums, book illustrations, posters, architectural drawings, and cartoons. The majority of images were created between 1840 and 1970, although some earlier and later materials are also available.

The images portray a broad geographic area from Algiers in North Africa to Samarqand in present-day Uzbekistan. The collections are particularly strong in coverage of Turkey, Israel, the West Bank (the Palestinian territories), Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Central Asia. Many images of Iran, Iraq, and North Africa, including Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, can be found along with some images of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states such as Kuwait and Bahrain.

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The Middle East visual materials came to P&P through copyright deposit, gift, and purchase, and today total about 75,000 items. [Our Emphasis] As of 2009, most of these have images or descriptive information available in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) Researchers can view original materials, including pictures not yet digitized, in the P&P Reading Room. We recommend that patrons first search PPOC and consult a librarian before coming on site to do research.

Sections of the overview include:
+ Subject Overview
+ Search Tips (very useful)
+ Other Places to Look for Middle East Images
+ Bibliography
+ Online Resources

Access the Complete Overview

Access the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
Over 1.2 digitized images (and growing) in this database. The database is not limited to only Middle East imagery. It’s very easy to spend a lot of time here. This is a resources to share with library/info center users. It’s also great for educators.

Source: Prints and Photographs Division (P&P), Library of Congress

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National Archives (U.S.): Probe Targets Archives’ Handling of Data on 70 Million Vets

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

From the Article:‘

The inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration is investigating a potential data breach affecting tens of millions of records about U.S. military veterans, Wired.com has learned. The issue involves a defective hard drive the agency sent back to its vendor for repair and recycling without first destroying the data.

The hard drive helped power eVetRecs, the system veterans use to request copies of their health records and discharge papers. When the drive failed in November of last year, the agency returned the drive to GMRI, the contractor that sold it to them, for repair. GMRI determined it couldn’t be fixed, and ultimately passed it to another firm to be recycled.

Direct to Web Site of NARA’s Inspector General

Much More in the Complete Article

Source: Wired

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Study of Media at Indiana University Bloomington Reveals Critical Preservation Needs

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

You have to wonder how many other universities of all shapes and sizes are in the same shape (or worse) than IU?

From the Announcement:

Indiana University Bloomington holds more than 560,000 audio and video recordings and film reels, many of which are historically significant, all of which are actively deteriorating. And the window of time to save these materials is closing fast; most archivists agree that such audio and video materials could be lost forever in 20 years or less.

That’s the urgent conclusion of the just-released IU Bloomington Media Preservation Survey, a comprehensive study produced by a task force of archival experts drawn from around the campus.

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The final report presents a detailed look at the characteristics and condition of audio, video, and film media on the campus, including numbers of holdings, general condition, and preservation risks. (This survey focused on one class of media and did not include photographs or other physical objects in special collections.) Among its major findings, the report reveals that IU Bloomington:

* Has media holdings dating back to wax cylinder recordings of Native Americans made in the early 1890s
* Holds an estimated 154,136 unique (one-of-a-kind) items
* Holds an estimated 94,993 rare items
* Holds a larger and more diverse film collection than almost any other U.S. university
* Has at least 180,000 items that are at high or very high risk for loss of content

“Large portions of IUB holdings are seriously endangered due to inadequate storage, degradation of media, and format obsolescence,” says [Mike] Casey [associate director for recording services at the Archives of Traditional Music] in his introduction to the survey report. “Some media preservation efforts on campus exist, but none are sustainable, and none are at a scale or pace that will allow them to preserve more than a tiny fraction of their holdings before it is too late.”
(more…)

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Internet Archive: Project Funded to Add Features to a Million Books

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

From a Post by Brewster Kahle:

The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at UMass Amherst, the Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts, and the Internet Archive are investigating large-scale information extraction and retrieval technologies for digitized book collections. The NSF has awarded a grant of $2.7 million for a project to apply advanced OCR, topic modeling and metadata extraction techniques to over one million books at the Internet Archive.

Source: IA

National Archives and Footnote.com Announce New Digital Holocaust Collection

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Access the Collections

From the Story:

Starting today, hundreds of thousands of Holocaust-related documents will be searchable online through an agreement between the National Archives and Records Administration and Footnote.com.

NARA officials said the massive collection of records about looted assets, concentration camp registers and proceedings of the Nuremberg war crime trials will form part of the Web’s largest interactive collection of Holocaust records. The release of the initial 500,000 images of individual documents will make research easier and greatly increase access.

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Footnote.com plans to eventually digitize – at no cost to NARA – about one million images of Holocaust-related documents. Users will be able to access the documents for a fee through Footnote.com, but access will be free at NARA research facilities, and the documents will be available on Footnote.com for no charge during October. The company specializes in making digital records from historic documents.

People will also be able to use Footnote.com’s social-networking tool to develop Facebook-like pages to memorialize Holocaust victims. Footnote’s “I Remember” application lets people share photos, comments and stories about victims. Users can create and access the pages through Footnote.com and then share them on Facebook.

Source: GCN

From the Official NARA News Release

Included among the National Archives records available online at Footnote.com are:

+ Concentration camp registers and documents from Dachau, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, and Flossenburg
+ The “Ardelia Hall Collection” of records relating to the Nazi looting of Jewish possessions, including looted art
+ Captured German records including deportation and death lists from concentration camps
+ Nuremberg War Crimes Trial proceedings

The collection also includes nearly 600 interactive personal accounts of those who survived or perished in the Holocaust provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The project incorporates social networking tools that enable visitors to search for names and add photos, comments and stories, share their insights, and create pages to highlight their discoveries. There will be no charge to access and contribute to these personal pages.

The collection is divided into four sections:

1) Stories from the Holocaust (via NARA and US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Cursor over an image to see that persons name. You can also filter the list by name. Click to read their story.

2) Concentration Camps: Stories, Maps, and Facts

Camps can be selected from a Google Map. “Each page includes a background of the camp, a map, timeline of events, and an account of some of the events.”

3) Looted Valuables: Holocaust Assets Collection

Looted Valuables Information
+ Owner of Property
+ Photograph of items
+ Description of items
+ Item Condition
+ Location of Possessions
++ The collection is searchable.

4) National Archive Holocaust Records

Collections available:
+ Holocaust Era Assets: The Ardelia Hal Collection
+ German War Crime Records
+ Captured German Records
+ Dachau Concentration Camp Entry Registers
+ Flossenburg Concentration Camp Entry Registers
+ Mauthausen Death Books
+ WWII Nuremburg Interrogation Records

++ All of these records are also searchable by name, date, place, or topic
Expect more records being added to the database over time.

Fee and Free:
Access to the “Stories” section of the site will always be free as will pages created using the social media tools. During the month of October, all content on the entire site is free. Then, all of the content (besides the Stories section) will be free at any computer at any NARA facility nationwide and fee-based if you do not use a NARA computer. In five years all of the content will be free on the NARA web site.

Access the Collections

Hat Tip: P.W.

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Resource of the Week — National Museum of the American Indian: Collections Search

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Resource of the Week — National Museum of the American Indian: Collections Search
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

The National Museum of the American Indian — the 16th Smithsonian Institution museum — which opened on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 2004, is the first U.S. national museum dedicated solely to Native Americans. And we think teachers, scholars, librarians and researchers everywhere will be interested in the excellent collection search tool available on the museum’s website.

Welcome to NMAI Collections Search, which includes a representative sample of NMAI’s object and historic photo collections. Each item is accompanied by basic, standardized information. To become familiar with the site, start with one of the Collection Highlight tours or search the website using this page or the tabs at the top.

Our goal is to include as many items as possible, but objects and photos will be added only when NMAI staff have reviewed the accuracy of accompanying information. Items identified as culturally sensitive or which are no longer part of NMAI’s collections will not appear on this website. Please contact NMAI about providing additional information or correcting any errors.

Records for many objects include their original catalog cards, which often date to the early 1900s. These cards may include tribal names and terminology considered unacceptable or offensive today but they have been included to illustrate the information that originally accompanied the objects.

Five different search options are available:

There are different functions available depending upon which search option you’re using, but under all of them are check boxes that allow you to restrict your search to any combination of the following: archaeological Items, ethnographic Items, modern and contemporary arts, photographic collections. Or you can just check “All of the above categories” if you want to cast the widest net possible. Search help is just a click away.

We enjoyed browsing the collection highlights area at the bottom right of the page, which included such categories of interest as beadwork and toys and games.

Bibliographers and catalogers will be interested in the thesaurus:

The following reference lists represent NMAI controlled terminologies in their respective hierarchies. Use these reference lists if you are in doubt about what terms are used or how they should be entered for searches. If you cannot quickly locate a term you may use your browser’s “Find” (”Ctrl” + “F”) option combination to see if a term is listed. When you click on a term in a Reference List, a search is automatically performed across all applicable collections categories.

Even if this is not a subject area of interest to you, the site as a whole is well worth browsing just because it’s so…elegantly done.

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ATF Transfers Alexander Hamilton Document to National Archives

Friday, September 25th, 2009

ATF Transfers Alexander Hamilton Document to National Archives

(T)he Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) transferred an original 18th century Alexander Hamilton document to the National Archives. The document will become part of the permanent holdings of the National Archives and will be preserved in a locked, temperature and humidity-controlled stack area in its College Park, Md., facility.

The document, dated Dec. 18, 1790, and signed by the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, is a circular letter distributed to the customs agents of the United States. Secretary Hamilton’s letter describes the method for measuring the proof of distilled spirits for taxation.
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At the end of the American Revolution, the national government owed $37 million dollars in debt, a figure dwarfed by the $114 million owed by the states. At Hamilton’s urging, the federal government assumed responsibility for the debt of the states. One of the first attempts by Congress to reduce the national debt was the Tariff of 1789, which placed duties on the import of distilled spirits among other items. Quickly realizing that these duties were not generating enough revenue, a higher tariff was passed by Congress in 1790. The letter ATF transferred to the National Archives describes how duties from the Tariff of 1790 would be determined.

Source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

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New Archival Sound Recordings Online via British Library: Unpublished Recordings from 80s-90s from Institute of Contemporary Arts

Friday, September 25th, 2009

From the Announcement

The British Library launches the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Talks from the 1980s online from this page via the British Library Sound Archive.

Featuring [our emphasis] unpublished recordings of talks and debates with top cultural, artistic and political figures of the day, this latest addition to the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website offers a chance to explore in detail cultural directions in the UK of the late 20th century.

* Unpublished talks and debates with leading cultural figures published online for the first time
* Over 880 recordings – that’s 1000 hours
* Recordings date from 1981 to 1994
* Subjects discussed include art, literature, performance, fashion, film, music, philosophy, psychology, biology, feminism, AIDS and politics

More Facts:

+ Browse Talks by Date, Subject, or Contributor

+ Learn More About the Institute for Contemporary Arts

More After The Jump
(more…)

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Delaware Public Archives Moves Photo ID Project Online

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

From the Article:

For three years, libraries around the state have displayed Delaware Public Archives photos in the hopes of identifying John Does. Library patrons have ID’d more than 1,900 people so far, a number the archives hopes will jump now that people can go online to search old photos for classmates, family members and friends.

The Hometown Delaware program is full of photos mostly from the 1930s to 1950s. A small group of the archives’ more than 800,000 pictures are at http://archives.delaware.gov, and categorized into the three counties for easy searching. When people recognize someone, they can click on a link to email the archives with the person’s name.

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The online move is targeting a different demographic than the effort at libraries, according to Tom Summers, outreach services manager. The library tour started to reach people who might not have access to a computer or weren’t familiar with the Internet. [Lori] Hatch [information resource specialist] said she hopes some younger visitors who have grown up online might help by identifying family members.

Much More in the Complete Article

Source: Dover Post

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New Addition to American Memory Project: American English Dialect Recordings, Over 100 Hours of Recordings

Friday, September 18th, 2009

From the Announcement:

The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. The recordings include speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches.

From the Web Site

The survey’s documentation covers social aspects of English language usage in different regions of the United States. It reveals distinctions in speech related to gender, race, social class, education, age, literacy, ethnic background, and occupational group (including the specialized jargon or vocabulary of various occupations). The oral history interviews are a rich resource on many topics, such as storytelling and family histories; descriptions of holiday celebrations, traditional farming, schools, education, health care, and the uses of traditional medicines; and discussions of race relations, politics, and natural disasters such as floods.

The collection includes recordings from forty-three states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and parts of Canada. They were made from 1941 to 1984, with the bulk being recorded between 1968 and 1982. In some cases, transcriptions made by the collectors are available as part of this web presentation.

Access the American English Dialect Recordings

It’s possible to browse the collection by:
+ Title
+ Name
+ Subject
+ Place

Source: American Memory Project (via Library of Congress)

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Online Database: Footnote.com Providing Free Weekly Updates to Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

From an E-Mail from Footnote.com:

The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is one of the most widely used and valuable databases for genealogy research…Footnote has created a page for each record that includes:

+ The complete indexed information
+ A place to add additional facts
+ A photo gallery
+ A timeline
+ A map
+ A place to add stories and comments

Access the SSDI Database (Updated Weekly, Free)
Btw, note the many ways to refine search results. They are located in the left-side column of a results page.

Note: Two other places to find the SSDI (free) are Ancestry.com (updated weekly) and FamilySearch.org.
Both services also provide the social security number of the person you are hoping to locate.

Note: Footnote.com also provides both free and fee-based services. You can compare free vs. fee on this page.

New Resource: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Launches Web Portal Showcasing Television’s Greatest Stories

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

From the Announcement:

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation has launched EmmyTVLegends.org, a new web video portal offering free, public access to the Archive of American Television, the most comprehensive videotaped interview collection of its kind. It features revealing conversations with more than 600 influential figures [2000+ hours] that have shaped the television industry from its inception to present day, and includes little-known anecdotes, unique perspectives, and eyewitness accounts from top names in TV.

This ambitious, new website has been more than a decade in the making. Since 1996, the Archive has conducted in-depth interviews with television’s biggest
stars, industry legends, and crucial behind-the-scenes players who make television magic. In 2005, the Archive began to release the interviews online
to the public, but until now there was no easy way to search and navigate the footage.

Access EmmyTVLegends.org
Advanced Search Interface

Much more in the complete announcement.

Source: Reuters
Hat Tip: AMIA Newsbriefs

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Archive for the ‘Archives and Special Collections’ Category

On Google and Usenet

Fun! The Wayback Machine Mentioned on Network Television Program

Just in Time for the Major League Playoffs and World Series: Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress Web Guide

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Issues Presidential Libraries Reform Report to Congress

Legal Delays Have Blown a Hole in UK’s Digital Heritage

Online Databases from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI)

Report From Digital Preservation Workshop Held in DC

Middle East Images in the Prints and Photographs Division: Subject Overview

National Archives (U.S.): Probe Targets Archives’ Handling of Data on 70 Million Vets

Study of Media at Indiana University Bloomington Reveals Critical Preservation Needs

Internet Archive: Project Funded to Add Features to a Million Books

Resource of the Week — National Museum of the American Indian: Collections Search

ATF Transfers Alexander Hamilton Document to National Archives

New Archival Sound Recordings Online via British Library: Unpublished Recordings from 80s-90s from Institute of Contemporary Arts

Delaware Public Archives Moves Photo ID Project Online

New Addition to American Memory Project: American English Dialect Recordings, Over 100 Hours of Recordings

Online Database: Footnote.com Providing Free Weekly Updates to Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

New Resource: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Launches Web Portal Showcasing Television’s Greatest Stories

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