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ChronicleLive - News - Remember When - Remember When Stories - History in the making at Newcastle City Library. REMEMBER that old song ‘Thanks for the Memories’, well, that’s the theme of a special Memory Bank project being launched today at Newcastle City Library Ray Laidlaw, former Lindisfarne drummer, will help get the project under way on Monday, when people from across the city will be invited to share some of their earliest and most treasured memories. The Memory Bank will run until Sunday, October 4. And, as a special treat, at 12.30 Ray will recount his memories of his career with the legendary folk band and will invite library visitors to record their own milestones for the Memory Bank.

Successful playwright Ed Waugh will pitch in with his memories and the launch will be hosted by Julia Hankin. Visitors will also be asked to record how their lives and the city have changed within living memory. “The memories that are gathered will form an important and unique social record of Newcastle’s recent past. Memory Bank | Newcastle City Council. Conversations about Digital Preservation (Podcasts) About Digital Preservation A production of the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available digital content for current and future generations.

Collaboration and shared ideas are essential to the success of NDIIPP and all digital preservation institutions. These podcasts are conversations with digital preservation leaders with whom the Library is collaborating. Read more about the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Conversations about Digital Preservation Podcasts Listen to Podcast Listen to Podcast Listen to Podcast Title: Mike Wash, National Archives and Record Administration Description: Mike Wash is chief information officer of the National Archives and Record Administration. Listen to Podcast Listen to Podcast. ABC OPEN. Preservation of documentary heritage. Preservation of documentary heritage © Heidelberg UniversityThe digitisation lab of the Heidelberg University Library Documentary heritage reflects the diversity of languages, peoples and cultures.

It is the mirror of the world and its memory. But this memory is fragile. Every day, irreplaceable parts of this memory disappear for ever. The first and most urgent need is to ensure the preservation, by the most appropriate means, of documentary heritage that has world significance. It is also important to make this heritage accessible to as many people as possible, using the most appropriate technology, both inside and outside the countries in which it is located. The preservation of the world's legacy of knowledge is a prerequisite for universal access and will greatly impact the extent to which Knowledge Societies development.

Access to and dissemination of information relies on the stability of documents and the retrievability of their content. Memory of the World Programme Digital heritage. New nominations to Latin American Memory of the World Register to be discussed in Montevideo. Digitisation and Content. National Archives Experience. Open Archives Initiative. Backstage Library Works: Welcome. Digital Libraries: Definitions, Issues and Challenges - UDT Occasional Paper #8. UDT Occasional Paper # 8 Gary Cleveland E-mail: March, 1998. The idea of easy, finger-tip access to information-what we conceptualize as digital libraries today-began with Vannenar Bush's Memex machine (Bush, 1945) and has continued to evolve with each advance in information technology. With the arrival of computers, the concept centered on large bibliographic databases, the now familiar online retrieval and public access systems that are part of any contemporary library.

When computers were connected into large networks forming the Internet, the concept evolved again, and research turned to creating libraries of digital information that could be accessed by anyone from anywhere in the world. Phrases like "virtual library," "electronic library," "library without walls" and, most recently, "digital library," all have been used interchangeably to describe this broad concept. But what does this phrase mean? 1. What is a digital library? In fact, a digital library is all of these things. 2. Deciding to Digitise. News: 2 Models for Digitizing Collections. Google's Library Project, which is in the process of digitizing millions of books at top university libraries around the world, announced a major expansion Wednesday: The 12 universities that make up the Committee on Institutional Cooperation have agreed to let Google digitize up to 10 million of their collective volumes -- generally those from the most distinctive parts of their collections.

The announcement brings to 25 the number of universities involved in the Google project, which is being hailed by some scholars for the way it will assure online access to volumes that have been largely available only in a few locations and that are in danger of decomposition. The project will involve both books in the public domain and copyrighted materials -- and the latter have been controversial. The Google Expansion The promise of the Google Library Project has always been its ability to offer an unmatched collection of digitized materials.

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