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A digital library of primary materials from around the world spanning 8000 BC to present. Very clear intuitive navigation and interesting browsing choices like a draggable time period bar. Strong descriptions of the items...great clear zoomability with something called seajax viewer?? Pretty cool digital library that's very well done in a lot of ways.

The most memorable digital preservation happenings of 2011

Some great ideas of things that would make digital calendars more useful.

An argument against focusing on the information tools and for good old fashioned knowledge and critical thinking

I like how they feature a group of collections on the home page and then include a separate section of additional collections. It clearly shows which are of greater importance and leaves no question of where users can click to start exploring. On the con side, only some of these featured collections lead to digitized primary source materials. We need to make it clear for our users which collections are available online and which only include online finding aids.

Cabaniss Papers Digitization Project

Team Chaos have struck again! But do not fear, Team Digital Preservation are on hand, in what could be their funniest adventure yet.

Really interesting way to crowd-source transcription of handwritten material

They'll face some of the same challenges we will with building LALSDL as well as some even bigger ones

2014 Digital Scholarship Colloquium YouTube Channel The two keynotes come highly recommended by Cindy Fisher

Example of mobile site using jQuery Mobile. From the Digital Services Librarian: "...; I released our library's first mobile site this summer (http://m.library.iit.edu), and the framework allowed me to concentrate on the university-specific items I had to address (such as rewriting our textbook checkout code) rather than how to make it look nice on various mobile platforms."

Alternative to CSS hacks

In an effort to digitize university libraries, San Francisco State will keep only 25 percent of their million+ books and other materials for browsing.

Interesting open source project for managing a local display screen network