Here is Anne Buress at The Harvard Gazette: In a recent virtual curatorial discussion, Houghton librarian John Overholt took an item from the Colonial North America collections to share with his audience. Rather than highlighting a letter from John Hancock or a...
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There she is, Miss America…digitized and online
Rowan University students are digitizing artifacts from the Miss America Organization in Atlantic City. What a cool public history project! Here is R. Kenneth Burns at WHYY: Students at Rowan University are going through a treasure chest of American history...
Digitizing New England Church Records
Here is Jeff Cooper at the blog of the American Antiquarian Society: For the past fifteen years, New England’s Hidden Histories (NEHH), a project of the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, has sought to locate, digitize, transcribe, and publish online New...
The National Endowment for the Humanities Funds the Japanese American History Digitization Project
Donald Trump’s current budget proposal will eliminate government funding for the humanities. This means that local communities and American citizens will need to come up with other ways to fund programs like this: The Japanese American History Digitization Project at...
The AAS Printers' File Is Being Digitized
The American Antiquarian Society‘s Printers’ File contains information on 6000 people who were involved in the early American book trade. Emily Wells, a staff member at the AAS and an incoming College of William and Mary graduate student, will be...
The Colonial North American Project at Harvard University
Harvard is digitizing its archival and manuscript collections related to 17th and 18th century North America. From the website of the Colonial North American Project: When complete, the project will make available to the world digitized images of all known […]
The Next “Librarian of Congress” Should Be a Librarian
This is the argument of Portland Community College librarian Meredeth Farkas in a piece at The New Republic.Farkas chides outgoing Librarian of Congress James Billington for, among other things, not modernizing the Library and bringing it fully into the digital world.She writes:President...
Transcribing and Digitizing Early American Sermons
This looks like a wonderful project. It appears to be the brainchild of Zach Hutchins of Colorado State University. Here is what it is all about. Transcribing Early American Manuscript Sermons, or TEAMS, is a collaborative scholarly effort to make...
The New York Public Library’s Map Collection Will Be Digitized
435,000 maps in all. What a time to be a historian!From Mental Floss: Thanks in part to a grant from the Knight Foundation, the NYPL is currently in the process of digitizing their extensive map collection. So far, the institution...
Digitizing St. Augustine, Florida
There is a lot of great digitization work going on these days. The Washington Post is running an article on efforts underway at the University of South Florida to digitize St. Augustine parish documents dating back to 1594. Here is […]
National Digital Stewardship Residency Program
This looks like a great opportunity for recent master’s degree graduates. There is only a short time left to apply for the National Digital Stewardship Residency program. The deadline is April 5th, 2013! Interested applicants can apply to the program...