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Las Vegas History | Las Vegas News Bureau 75th Anniversary
75 Years of Capturing Las Vegas History The LVCVA [Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority] Archive has nearly 7 million images, 11,000 pieces of film and video, and 1,300-linear-feet of manuscripts and artifacts. The largest collection in the LVCVA Archive is the Las Vegas News Bureau Collection, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2022.…
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A Love Letter to the People Who Build the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
“When you visit a public library, you get to meet the librarians and others who build and care for those collections. You know there are people who empty the garbage cans, who put back the borrowed books, who maintain the computers, and who determine what ends up on the shelf.” “A digital library, on the…
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Turning the Page | News | The Harvard Crimson
While Harvard’s library digitization efforts have presented new opportunities for scholars to access and preserve sources for posterity, they have also brought their own set of challenges. Editor’s Note: Via Library Link of the Day Source: Turning the Page | News | The Harvard Crimson
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Libraries Digitize Thousands of Colonial Documents | News | The Harvard Crimson
Thousands of essays, journals, and other archival documents from the 17th and 18th centuries are now available online, after a group of Harvard libraries launched the Colonial North American Project website last week.The launch is part of a broader push to digitize the archives in the library system. The Law School library recently announced an…
