Archiving digital resources for our cultural heritage
The British Library announced some time ago that they have expanded their legal deposit collection to include UK websites, ebooks, and posts from social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Ever since the 17th Century, the British Library has been…
Bookish
Bookish is a new book recommendation and e-commerce site competing with the likes of Goodreads, Library thing and Amazon. Although some question the effectiveness of these sites, Bookish promises a different experience based on the resources and expertise available to publishers driving the project. Bookish is…
Shelflife: Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory
The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory has piloted a number of projects looking at how their collections are accessed online. One of the most interesting is the Shelflife/LibraryCloud project. LibraryCloud aggregates collection and usage metadata from a number of different libraries and feed…
Library of Congress: education blog
The Library of Congress has a range of great blogs looking at collection highlights and how to use primary sources in the classroom. Some recent posts of interest from the education blog include: What makes a primary source a primary…
Europeana
Europeana is a repository for thousands of digitised resources from some of Europe’s premier research institutions. Over 1500 institutions have contributed source material and high resolution versions of many items can be downloaded and viewed on the site. You can…
SLAV conference reflections: Hamish Curry
Hamish Curry, Education Manager at the State Library of Victoria shares his reflections on Monday’s SLAV conference where he presented on how to create with library data. About 200 library technicians and assistants arrived at Etihad Stadium on Monday 17th…
Commons explorer
You probably know Flickr Commons, long an incredible source of images from some of the world’s greatest library and museum collections. All images in the Commons have “no known copyright restrictions” and can be used, mashed up, tagged and added…
New research guides at SLV
State Library of Victoria provides research guides on their website that aid research on specific topics. Two new ones have recently been created. Victoria’s early history, 1803-1851 is a research guide that details Victoria’s early history, using published history and documents, including the…
Guest post: Kilbreda College Library by Louise McInerney
Louise McInerney is a teacher librarian and library coordinator at Kilbreda College, Mentone, Victoria. The library website of Kilbreda College has a wonderful catalogue of resources the library can provide, but, as Louise says ‘we also include links to six local…
International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)
The ICDL won the American Library Association President’s 2010 award for International Library Innovation. It is a wonderful site that aims to ‘…support the world’s children in becoming effective members of the global community – who exhibit tolerance and respect…
