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The Independent Radio News/London Broadcasting Company radio archive consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. It is the most important commercial radio archive in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period.
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This project digitised the Carl Giles Archive, the single most important archive of British newspaper cartoons, and a key resource for British political and social history that has never before been open to the public. The collection will become a major part of the existing University of Kent Cartoon Centre, thereby creating the largest archive [...]
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Over half a million images were digitised from microfilms to create an online resource with access to the full-text Cabinet papers from 1915-1978, plus a contextualisation package. These collections of minutes and memoranda, which cover both peace and wartime, constitute a fascinating record of the way in which the British government grappled with events of [...]
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This project represents an innovative public-private partnership between the Bodleian Library2 at Oxford University and ProQuest3 a leading publisher of electronic educational resources. The project aimed to deliver online approximately 65,000 complete items (equivalent to about 170,000 images) drawn from the Bodleian’s John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera4, thereby broadening access to a vast range [...]
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McGill University Library is pleased to announce a partnership with Kirtas Technologies and its Canadian partner Ristech, which will allow students, faculty and the general public to request to have books scanned and made available through the new Digitize on Demand program.
thanks to OAN
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The overall aim of the project was to provide researchers, teachers and learners with online access to significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held within UK research libraries.
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Through a special initiative, ERIC has converted and archived nearly 340,000 microfiche documents that were added to the ERIC collection between 1966 and 1992. The full text of nearly 192,000 of these documents – approximately 55% – is now available online. ERIC continues to seek permission from copyright holders to post and disseminate an electronic [...]
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Offered as part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection’s History collection, Germany Under Reconstruction provides the public with access to a variety of publications in English and German from the early days following World War II. The documents cover a wide range of topics, and they include works that look at the political, economic, [...]
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f you’ve ever dreamed of reading the January 2, 1900 edition of Paris, Kentucky’s “Bourbon News”, this site will offer a form of wish fulfillment.
This newspaper (and many others) are part of the Chronicling America website, which was produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program. The program is the result of a partnership between the [...]
You can find lists of fiche that have been digitized on the ERIC site
at: http://eric.ed.gov/
Click the link “ERIC Information … For Librarians”. Then, Weeding Your Microfiche Collection (top left corner of Information for Librarians page).
Wil Frost
Chair, ERIC Users Committee
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