Stacey Colleen Kozakavitch: Every house has a history [talk]
http://archive.org/details/personaldigitalarchiving2012pt2

Margaret Cook: Every house has a history
http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/documents/heritage/Every_House_Has_History.pdf

Richard M. Daley / Alicia Mazur Berg: Your house has a history
http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/static/pdf/Your_House_Has_A_History.pdf

Waverley Council: Who lived in my house?
http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/23161/House_history_research_guide_for_LS_website.pdf

http://www.si.edu/content/gwc/BestofBothWorldsSmithsonian.pdf

"The Smithsonian Institution released a free 77-page e-book Tuesday concerning one of the institution’s top priorities: digitizing 14 million objects in its massive collections. In “Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age,” G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian, writes that digitization, or the process of translating images and data into digital formats, is necessary for the Smithsonian to maintain its national and international footprint."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/smithsonian-offers-an-e-book-to-detail-its-digitization-efforts/2013/08/27/dfffa80c-0f45-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html

"We are happy to announce, that BASE (www.base-search.net) has reached
another milestone with indexing more than 50,000,000 OAI-records.

The records are provided by about 2,700 repositories worldwide. In
this year alone, we have indexed about 10,000,000 records."

http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=ind1308&L=LIBLICENSE-L&F=&S=&P=63262

http://edwired.org/2013/08/26/historians-and-books/

"You see, regardless of what we might think about open access, or dissertation embargoes, or any of the other issues that came up in the ahagate conversation this summer, if we accept that history has been and remains a book-based discipline, then we are accepting that the book is the standard by which historians should be judged for such things as jobs, promotion, tenure, raises, etc. For our professional association to make such a bold defense of the book as the gold standard is more than just counter productive, it’s really out of touch with the realities of the history job market our MA and PhD grads find themselves in."

Via MR

"As you know, effective July 1, 2013 the Georgia Archives transferred to the Board of Regents. The Governor and General Assembly approved a budget increase of $300,000 for FY 14 in the Archives budget. The funds have allowed the Archives to open to the public two additional days a week, Wednesday and Thursday, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. The new hours become effective July 31, 2013. The additional staff will also allow for increased conservation and processing activities of the Archives collections.

So far, the Archives has hired Allison Hudgins, who began working in Reference Services beginning August 2. Allison, who has an MLIS from Valdosta State and a BA from Mercer, comes to us from the Cobb County Library System. She also gained valuable experience as a student assistant at Mercer University Special Collections. A new Conservator is scheduled to start October 1. This position will not only perform conservation duties but will assist in the Original Document Reading Area when needed. The Georgia Archives is also currently in the process of reviewing applications for another Reference Archivist position.

In addition, Archives staff have already begun discussing partnership opportunities to engage USG students and faculty in its work. As part of the USG, the Archives will be able to tap the enormous range of faculty, staff, and student talent to assist with its mission. The Georgia Archives hopes to resume its internship programs this semester by having two interns at the Archives. These interns will learn and work with reference staff and with me.

Thanks to the staff of the University System of Georgia, the staff of the Office of Secretary of State, and the staff of the Archives, the transition from SOS has gone quite well. The transition was a massive undertaking and it is close to being finished. Although our website has transitioned to USG, some of its pages are down. We will work to get these pages back up but know that the whole site will be replaced in the coming months with a completely new website. Please forgive us for any inconvenience.

I want to thank everyone for their support. Without you, the Georgia Archives would not be doing as well as it is. The Council of State Archivists has awarded its Advocacy Award to the Friends of Georgia Archives at the joint SAA-CoSA meeting earlier this month. Although the award was given to FOGAH, know that all of you share in it.

I am excited about what the future holds and believe the Archives is heading in a good direction. I look forward to the coming years and to meeting and working with more of you. Thank you all for your strong support of the Archives through the years, especially over the last several months. I invite each of you to come to the Georgia Archives and see OUR TREASURES.


Christopher M. Davidson, J.D.
Director, Georgia Archives
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
5800 Jonesboro Road
Morrow, GA 30260
http://www.GeorgiaArchives.org "

https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiansAgainstClosingStateArchives/posts/352531244877890

Thanks to Maria Rottler.

From UMich's John Wilkin via LIBLICENSE:

"Klaus is essentially right about HathiTrust, and I believe that
roughly the same thing is true for Google. Per guidance from
Michigan's General Counsel, HathiTrust uses a default value of 140
years for countries that use "life + 70" for their term of copyright.
If the author's death date is known (and significant resources are
going into determining death dates for some countries), the actual
death date + 70 is used. Now, or very soon, HathiTrust will be using
120 years for "life + 50" countries; again, an actual death date
overrides this default value. All of this applies to users outside of
the US viewing works published outside of the United States, and the
date used (e.g., 1873) changes automatically at the turn of the year."

This means that there is now a good chance for suggesting worldwide opening of works by authorts who were 70 years dead! My own experiences with opening of pre-1923 volumes for US-citizen are very promising.

The most useful 21 links

1. Digitized manuscript catalogs (Brigitte Pfeil)

http://www.ub.uni-kassel.de/handschriftenkatalogeonline.html
http://www.uni-kassel.de/ub/historisches-erbe/sondersammlungen/handschriftenkataloge.html

Please mail Ms. Pfeil additions: pfeil at bibliothek.uni-kassel.de

2. Online catalogues of medieval manuscripts (Albrecht Diem)

http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/Catalogues-of-Latin-Manuscripts.html

3. Handschriftencensus manuscript catalogs

http://www.handschriftencensus.de/forschungsliteratur/kataloge

4. Medieval Manuscript Catalogs & Inventories (Robert D. Peckham)

http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/mscatalogs.shtml

5. Kristeller Online: Latin manuscript books before 1600

http://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/kristeller/

Please note that there is a printed addendum published in 2006.

6. Peraldus.ch: A collection of bibliographical references to medieval
manuscripts

http://www.peraldus.ch/

7. Looking for a manuscript in the publication Scriptorium and in the Bulletin codicologique

http://www.scriptorium.be/search_manuscript.php?lang=en

8. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

http://www.hmml.org/research2010/research10.htm

9. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/

AUSTRIA

10. manuscripta.at - Mittelalterliche Handschriften in
österreichischen Bibliotheken

http://manuscripta.at

BELGIUM/ THE NETHERLANDS

11. Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta

http://www.library.leiden.edu/special-collections/manuscripts/subcollections-whs-bnm.html

12. Medieval manuscripts in Dutch collections

http://www.mmdc.nl/

13. Online guide to mediaeval manuscripts in Wallonia - Brussels

http://www.cicweb.be/en/recherche.php

EAST EUROPE

14. Manuscriptorium

http://www.manuscriptorium.com/

Mostly Czech Republic

FRANCE

15. Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux

http://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/

16. Enluminures, Liber Floridus, Mandragore

http://www.manuscritsenlumines.fr/

17. Initiale - Catalogue de manuscrits enluminés

http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/

GERMANY

18. Manuscripta Mediaevalia

http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/

Please note: There are (i) descriptions and digitized catalogs in the
database, (ii) an old presentation of older digitized catalogs where
you can link directly to pages at

http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/kataloge-online.htm

(iii) PDF-descriptions in the section "Projekte" which cannot be
searched (respective incompletely via Google site:search)

ITALY

19. MANUS - Censimento dei manoscritti delle biblioteche italiane

http://manus.iccu.sbn.it/

SWITZERLAND

20. Verbundkatalog HAN

http://www.ub.unibas.ch/?id=1469

Mostly modern materials but also medieval mss. from Basel, Luzern, St. Gallen (Vadiana), and Solothurn (to mention only the most important libraries with medieval manuscripts)

USA

21. Digital Scriptorium

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium/

UPDATES

May, 2014

I should have mentioned

FRANCE

Calames
http://www.calames.abes.fr

July, 2014

Bibliografia dei manoscritti citati in rivista
http://tlion.sns.it/mssb/

December, 2014

MIRABILE
http://www.mirabileweb.it/

USA

Directory of Collections in the United States and Canada with Pre-1600 Manuscript Holdings
http://bibsocamer.org/wp-content/uploads/Conway_Davis_2014.pdf

"Scholars, campaigners and lawyers can for the first time readily access more than 2,200 documents from a largely unknown archive housed at the United Nations that documents thousands of cases against accused World War II criminals in Europe and Asia."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/over-2200-world-war-ii-documents-now-online

http://www.legal-tools.org/

http://the1709blog.blogspot.de/2013/07/crime-without-remedy-destruction-of.html

An entry as excellent as the whole blog (on copyright issues). Recommended!