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Vacancy – Assistant Images Officer, ITMA (FÁS Work Placement Programme)

ITMA is offering a mentored placement under the FÁS WPP scheme.  Working specifically in images (all formats), this will be an opportunity for anyone with an interest in audio/visual librarianship or digital media. The successful applicant will contribute to an ongoing project of making ITMA’s image collection digitally available to users. Participants will gain experience [...]

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Posted on 7th February 2012Comments Off
Stellar line-up for Spring series of dlr Library Voices

The Spring series of dlr Library Voices, curated by Bert Wright features a stellar line-up of international names starting today 7th February 2012 with Joanna Trollope. Trollope is one of the most successful authors in the world and she will be chatting with journalist/broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson about her latest novel The Soldier’s Wife. Best-selling author [...]

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Ratiodata erweitert Scan-Services mit LuraTech um das PDF/A-2-Format – Currentgame (Pressemitteilung)

Ratiodata erweitert Scan-Services mit LuraTech um das PDF/A-2-FormatCurrentgame (Pressemitteilung)Die Ratiodata IT-Lösungen & Services GmbH führt den neuen Normteil PDF/A-2 des ISO-zertifizierten Formates für die Langzeitarchivierung ein. Dabei …

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Ratiodata erweitert Scan-Services mit LuraTech um das PDF/A-2-Format – Goodnews.de (Pressemitteilung) (Blog)

Ratiodata erweitert Scan-Services mit LuraTech um das PDF/A-2-FormatGoodnews.de (Pressemitteilung) (Blog)Die Ratiodata IT-Lösungen & Services GmbH führt den neuen Normteil PDF/A-2 des ISO-zertifizierten Formates für die Langzeitarchivierung ein….

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Publicly Accessible Portal to Search, Browse, and Read ECCO-TCP

From the Text Creation Partnership blog:

In April 2011, we   announced   that restrictions had been lifted from around 2,200 TCP texts from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Within hours, we heard from many folks who were f…

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Posted on 6th February 2012Comments Off
QotM: February 2012

Do you currently have a digital preservation workflow set up for your projects? If not, why not?”

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Recap of Recent Google Improvements

From the Google Search blog :

Here’s the latest installment of our monthly series on “search quality highlights,” with 17 new quality improvements to read about for January. In addition to this month’s big announcement of…

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20th EBLIDA – NAPLE conference, Copenhagen May 2012

Registration now open!
“Democracy Development in a New Media Environment”
A conference on the role on libraries in Europe and their current e-challenges
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» Welcome and program (pdf)

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Posted on 3rd February 2012Comments Off