Author: Ben Naddaff-Hafrey
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Dead Sea Scrolls Online: Biblical Texts Haven’t Been Viewed on This Many Tablets Since 70 A.D.
To those who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, the idea of an infinitely reproducible copy that could be viewed and manipulated on touch screen tablets powered by electricity would probably have been less easily believed than the miracles described within the texts themselves. Yet, approximately 2,000 years after their creation, and a half century after…
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Digital Library Digest: September 30, 2011
The DPLA Beta Sprint Review Panel announces results, invites creators of nine projects to present at the October 21st Plenary Meeting. “The [nine] selected projects were invited on the basis of recommendations made by an independent review panel composed of public and research librarians and experts in the fields of library science and information management.…
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Digital Library Digest: September 23, 2011
A new European-wide Mass Digitization Deal, the intersections of the social internet and digital libraries, Amazon’s Kindle library lending program, and more.
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Digital Library Digest: August 12, 2011
Dwight McInvaill joins the DPLA Steering Committee, digitizing historical Tennessee newspapers, and more.
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Digital Library Digest: August 5, 2011
The OverDrive Digital Bookmobile tour, LibLabapalooza, and more.
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Digital Library Digest: July 29, 2011
Video updates from the Beta Sprinters.
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DPLA Listserv Recap: July 29, 2011
The data divide, notes from a DPLA focus group, and more.
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Digital Library Digest: July 22, 2011
Digital library efforts in Dubai, digital textbook rentals from Amazon, and more.
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DPLA Listserv Recap: July 22, 2011
Crowdsourcing a name for the DPLA, nominations for the Beta Sprint Review Panel, and more.
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DPLA Listserv Recap: July 15, 2011
Berkeley Law seeks a Digital Library Fellow.