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stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Readers of Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys knows that MLK's unauthorized LP of Speeches, Marting Luther King at Zion Hill was tremendously influential.

It was also hard to find a digital copy, but Baylor has it for you
digitalcollections-baylor.quartexcollections.com/Documents/De...
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
bcdreyer.social
Usually I start at collections dot mcny dot org and type into the search bar whatever word or first name pops into my mind.

(And my backup is digitalcollections dot nypl dot org.)

Today's word was "story."
January 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy
"Measuring the Impact of Digital Collections: Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit"
https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v44i4.17404
#researchdata #digitalcollections #libraries
Measuring the Impact of Digital Collections: Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit | Information Technology and Libraries
ital.corejournals.org
December 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
factorygothic.bsky.social
#OTD 18 December 1915, 17-year old factory girl Pauline Walton was found with her throat cut in her bed in Paris, Texas. Initial news reports called it a mystery, but within a few days, police arrested her father for the murder. Later reporting revealed Pauline had been in a "delicate condition."
Black and white image with caption "Miss Pauline Walton" is a portrait of a young woman with curly hair under a hat. She wears a white, possibly lace blouse and is holding some flowers in her hands. The headline above reads "Paris Crate Factory Girl for Whose Murder Father is Held". Original available here: https://digitalcollections-baylor.quartexcollections.com/Documents/Detail/waco-semi-weekly-tribune-waco-texas-vol.-21-no.-60-saturday-december-25-1915/577208?item=577214 newspaper clipping reads "By Associated Press. Paris, Texas, Dec. 18 -- The body of Miss Pauline Walton, 17 years old, was found at her home with the throat cut from ear to ear early today. Two persons are under surveillance, although no arrests have been made." From Laredo Weekly Times, December 19, 1915. Original here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86089566/1915-12-19/ed-1/?dl=page&q=%22pauline+walton%22&sp=1 another newspaper clipping reads "The only door to the girl's room opens into her parents' bedroom, and they say they heard no one enter. There is a window in the room with a screen which fastens inside. This screen was found a short distance from the house. A man's footprints were discovered under the window. The parents say they were aroused by the girl's screams and found her dying on the bed. There was evidence of a struggle and much of the girl's hair had been torn from her head." From "Mystery in Girl's Death" in Boston Sunday Globe, December 19, 1915 newspaper clipping "FATHER KILLS HIS OWN DAUGHTER" from Nogales (Arizona) Daily Herald December 20th 1915
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
throwable.bsky.social
📦 slub/slub-digitalcollections v5.0.0

Templates, Styles and Configuration for the Kitodo.Presentation based Digital Collections by SLUB Dresden

🔗 https://github.com/slub/slub_digitalcollections
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
kurtdebelder.bsky.social
Apply now for 16 different #fellowships #grants at the #ScaligerInstitute of Leiden University Libraries to conduct #research using our #SpecialCollections & #DigitalCollections.
Deadline: 1 February 2026.

View all the #fellowship possibilities: www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
infodocket.bsky.social
NYU #Libraries Completes Multi-Year Project to Digitize "Daily Worker" and "Daily World" Negatives Collection (via @nyulibraries.bsky.social) guides.nyu.edu/blog/NYU-Lib... #digitization #photographs #digitalcollections #newspapers
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
infodocket.bsky.social
New Funding Opportunity From Internet Archive Canada to Help Digitize Arctic Collections Across Canada
internetarchivecanada.org/2025/11/18/n... @internetarchiveca.bsky.social #archives #digitalcollections
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
jstor.bsky.social
@vanderbilt.edu & @universityofdc.bsky.social both outgrew self-hosted systems for managing #DigitalCollections.

Enter JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. In a new case study, discover how both institutions moved beyond DIY.

Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47RNMkW
A testimonial quote on a red background from Zachary Johnson, Associate Director of Digital Special Collections at Vanderbilt University, reads: “Our migration was easy thanks to JSTOR’s support with moving our collections. And, with clear, set fees, it was simple to work with administrators as well as budget for future transfers.” The left half of the image is solid red with JSTOR’s logo and the quote, while the right half features a black and white scanned manuscript page filled with sketches of human heads, numbers, Hebrew letters, and handwritten annotations.
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
crowdcymru.bsky.social
We’re improving access to important #digitalcollections - whether it be a volunteer nurse’s reaction to a declaration of war, a poignant letter from a child to her father on the front-line during #WWI or a handwritten diary by a nineteenth century British socialite! 🎉 #digitalarchives #WDPD2025 🎉
Image shows collage of three documents – from left to right Priscilla Scott-Ellis collection [personal diaries] held at Cardiff University Special Collections & Archive Edward Thomas Literary Collection [letters and diaries] held at Cardiff University Special Collections & Archive Rolls Family Archive [including Lady Llangattock diaries] held at Gwent Archives
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
tobyfmartin.bsky.social
Isn't this great? A laser-scanned corpus of early medieval brooches from the Arctic Museum of Norway.

And, the renders also kind of look like ghost brooches, which is seasonally appropriate 👻

dataverse.azure.uit.no/dataset.xhtm...

#digitalcollections #opendata #archaeology
2D render of a 3D laser-scanned early medieval brooch
October 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
infodocket.bsky.social
Save Our Signs Archive Containing Over 10,000 Photos of National Park Service (#NPS) Interpretive Materials Launches Online www.infodocket.com/2025/10/13/d... #digitalcollections #nationalparks @datarescueproject.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
tamueccb.bsky.social
Texas A&M ECCB is expanding access to biodiversity data 🌎

Through the Ranges Digitization Network, our mammal collections are now digitized to support research & conservation.

Read more 👉 agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2025/09/11/t...

#TAMUECCB #Biodiversity #ConservationScience #TAMU #DigitalCollections
September 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
claireboardman.bsky.social
A candid, and therefore useful, account of one GLAMs move to an open sourced digital collection management system. #DigitalCollections
oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 11
Howard | Maintaining an Open Mind: Sustaining Open-Source Digital Collections | Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/joerhe/article/id/20346/
Maintaining an Open Mind: Sustaining Open-Source Digital Collections
After a slow and laborious migration process, the University of Louisville successfully migrated from proprietary digital collections software to an open-source Samvera Hyku solution. After our migration our over-enthusiastic customizations started to catch up with us and our users. Without sufficient funding and development support, even as an R1 institution, we are stuck unable to support our bespoke approach. Despite this we are persisting with Hyku, largely because of the supportive Samvera community and its efforts to increase the sustainability of the system. From the perspectives of three mid-career librarians (serving as project manager, designer, and developer) and the early-career Metadata Librarian, we will discuss the importance of a) assessing resources before diving into an open-source project and b) cooperating with community partners in open-source software development and maintenance.
www.iastatedigitalpress.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
azstateresearchlib.bsky.social
Arizona history, your way! 🌵📖 Replay our August AMPlify Your Research session on YouTube. youtu.be/ElsNx_jQBB4
#AZHistory #DigitalCollections #LibraryLove
Image of a laptop computer with an image of the Grand Canyon on the Arizona Memory Project.
August 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
infodocket.bsky.social
Report: "Funding for the #California Digital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of the Employees Responsible for the Project Anyway" (via @cvindependent.bsky.social) cvindependent.com/2025/07/losi... #newspapers #digitalcollections #history #CDNC
Losing Our History? Funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of the Employees Responsible for the Project Anyway - Coachella Valley Independen...
The CDNC includes content from hundreds of newspapers that have been published throughout the state, going back as far as 1846. As of this writing, there 23,449,221 pages in the CDNC archive—but the s...
cvindependent.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ubleiden.bsky.social
Did you know one of the earliest mentions of North America can be found in our #SpecialCollections?

This manuscript was recently translated by the Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv in the Sagimen Project using only images from our #DigitalCollections:
➡️ digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl
July 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ubleiden.bsky.social
Two early Chinese-Portuguese dictionaries are now available via #DigitalCollections in #PublicDomain.

María Teresa González Linaje wrote a #SpecialCollectionsBlog about their fascinating contents. Like early transliteration efforts or a diagram for the tones used in Mandarin:
edu.nl/m4xfp
Two 17th century Chinese-Portuguese dictionaries digitized
The Leiden Library Asian Collection hosts, under the shelfmarks Or. 1929 a and Or. 1929 b two Chinese Portuguese dictionaries. These have now been made available in digital form. María Teresa González...
edu.nl
July 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
mladair.bsky.social
A hint for parents - if you don't want your child's info to appear online, then perhaps think twice about having in published in a newspaper. 🤦‍♂️ #DigitalCollections
July 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social
The poet John Jarmain died on 26 June 1944.

Digital copies of 120 items of Jarmain's wartime correspondence to his wife Beryl (and a full transcript of the letters) are available online at ➡️ specialcollectionsarchive.exeter.ac.uk/collections/show/2

#JohnJarmain #Archives #DigitalCollections #WW2
Air mail letter card showing handwritten text on the left side and the postal section on the other side with the address of 'Mrs John Jarmain' (Beryl Jarmain) and a postage stamp.
June 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
microformheritage.bsky.social
Fashion is history in motion.

We help preserve iconic designs, textiles, and archives with expert digitisation services for the fashion industry.

Explore how we support fashion heritage:
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#FashionArchives #TextilePreservation #HeritageFashion #DigitalCollections
June 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
ctrknitcrochet.bsky.social
There's still time to join the CKC Board of Directors! As a CKC Board member, you will support a variety of initiatives that help preserve our shared crafts, develop our #OnlineMuseum and #DigitalCollections, and expand the #CKCCommunity! Learn more at our link in bio.
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
ctrknitcrochet.bsky.social
Stay tuned for a few more pieces of filet crochet from the CKC #DigitalCollections!
Unknown, “Crochet Alphabet with Six Letters Missing (FILOPY),” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/3....
#MCVCollection
digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
bringthehuman.bsky.social
Next step, finding the straggler dupes and getting two hard drives to back the whole thing up, in prep to put it onto #Spydus! #archives #backlog #archivists #archivessky #digitalcollections

Adventures of a #lonearchivist or #lonearranger in an #academicarchives #smallarchives
May 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
g3om4c.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy
Another great opportunity to join us at the University of Glasgow, as we invest and expand our digital capacity in #digitallibraries, #digitalarchives, #digitalhumanities and #digitalcollections!

This particular post is Digital Research Collections Coordinator, overseeing the management and […]
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May 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM