In the Stacks: First Visit to The New Digital Library of America April 26, 2013 – Posted in: In the Stacks, Uncategorized

Books are weapons in the war of ideas. Poster 20 x 27.9 , 1942. Published by the United States Government Printing Office. In the this installment of In the Stacks we visit the newly launched and much anticipated Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The opening of DPLA represents a watershed moment in the history of American libraries and will undoubtedly become a seminal resource for our nation in the years ahead. It is safe to say this will…

The first e-book of Google fingers February 26, 2013

It had to happen sooner or later. An e-book composed entirely of digitized fingers that have crept into a page scan. It’s listed under the guise of A True Copy of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Greenshields (1709) which was originally digitized April 27, 2009 from Oxford University and is available for freeAbove image is the page spread, below some sample pages: A True Copy of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Greenshields. From the…

BiblioTech: The First Bookless Library January 14, 2013

The Bexar County, Texas satellite office. The future home the first bookless library. Photo: Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News You knew it was coming and I am not sure how it is going to last but here it is. The first bookless public library system in America. The name is a play on the Spanish word for library — biblioteca. artist’s conception of what the interior of the BiblioTech It was the brainchild of Bexar County…

Yiddish Goes Digital (with a Little Help from Its Friends) November 29, 2012

The first page of the Polish Yidel, July 1884 Calling all Yiddish speaking people… Two archives, one at Cornell University, the other at University of Warwick in the UK, have teamed up to digitize more than 1,500 pages from journals and newspapers originally written for working-class Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Much of the original material has never been translated into English and with the number of Yiddish speakers in the world in significant decline…

The Future is Here: A Book-Scanning Robot November 27, 2012

Featuring the latest in robotics and 3D technology the BFS-Auto is a lightning fast, hi-definition scanner that just might change the playing field. Developed at the noted Ishikawa Oku Laboratory at the University of Tokyo the BFS-Auto digitally scans books at an amazing rate of 250 pages a minute without modifying the book by cutting ! Let’s repeat: it scans 250 pages a minute in hi-definition without damaging the book. No more hands in the picture, no more…

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