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Ellie Roberto | May 24, 2021 There is an endless amount of work to be done in the digital archives field. When most of the country faced job losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, online transcription provided Ohio University Libraries was able to pivot to remote work for staff and student workers with tasks that could be accomplished remotely. Contributing to the Libraries’ Digital Archives allowed the libraries to continue contributing to the access and discovery of library collections even when the library itself was closed. The University Libr...

The curious case of how an elephant ended up on the steps of a Delaware school Natalia Alamdari, Delaware News Journal There once was a 350-pound lioness named Bunji that lived in a single-family home in a Newport Replay Video UP NEXT For one or two nights a year, a menagerie of lions, tigers, horses, monkeys and more would inhabit the pasture off Route 9.  In the 1940s, the swath of New Castle land was tenanted by the Megginson family, who would rent the neighboring pasture to small circuses that toured up and down the East Coast.  For less than $1, children and their pare...

Stay-at-home orders mean no eating at restaurants, attending shows or visiting friends and family. It also means that Canadian archives institutions and facilities, following public health orders, have restricted access for genealogists, academic researchers and anyone else digging through the past. Why don’t archives just digitize everything and make it available online? Collections at a large archive like Library and Archives Canada (LAC) include hundreds of kilometres of records, millions of photographic images, maps, architectural plans and artworks, and hundreds of thousands of hours ...

Fujitsu shared some of the advantages that digital archiving provides to companies that embark on digital transformation.

By Dian Schaffhauser 02/12/21 Maryland's Towson University has moved its digital archives to Quartex, a hosted application that enables libraries to share and showcase their digital collections. Towson has placed 12 collections from its Special Collections & University Archives on the platform, covering five subjects: university history, Jewish studies, performing arts, World War II and the history of education in Maryland. Now, much of the material will be made accessible to anybody online. Among the materials are these kinds of digital files: Copies of Towson commencement programs, going ba...