FINDERS Research Services MONTHLY DIGEST ON ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES & INFORMATION SCIENCE |
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WELCOME TO THE 4th MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I'm very excited about this months newsletter, created in collaboration with Hadar Ben-Yehuda, a writer, editor, translator, and researcher in Israel. She specializes in literature, film, Hebrew culture, and social media for cultural institutions. Until recently, Hadar worked as a writer, content editor and social media manager at the National Library of Israel, with a focus on stories from the Library collections. She's currently pursuing her own endeavours, including a children's literature podcast. Follow Hadar on Facebook, get in touch via email, and also visit her blog. Together we have selected fun and surprising stories, featuring unique digitizing projects from the French Revolution to bees. Another highlight are two and somewhat related, recently settled court cases; the fate of Max Brod's papers, and the removal from auction of the first drafts of the Israeli declaration of independence. In both disputes the State legally won, but the battle over ownership of national heritage is far from over. And for dessert, two stories about musical archives, one in the Palestinian electro scene and one from Radioheads hacked collection. And if you only hit one link on this month's newsletter, have it be the S.H.E extension. Enjoy! Hadar & Elisha |
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University of California's massive bee collection has been digitized, Stephanie Babych, Calgary Sun A new online collection of high-resolution pictures of bees will transform the way people think about the insects | | |
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The Smithsonian is digitizing political and military posters Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post More than 200 posters a day are being converted to make them more accessible to the public. | | |
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French Revolution Archive launched at Stanford University Caterina Sbrana, Digital Meets Culture As an extraordinary example of Cultural Cooperation between in Stanford and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, archival material about the French Revolution is now available to the International scholarly community. | | |
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Dispatches from the Associated Press (AP) from 1915 to 1930 are now online, The Library of Congress The collection of news dispatches of the Washington, D.C., Bureau of the Associated Press spans the period 1915-1930 and consists of 375 volumes (387,082 images), housed in 254 boxes, the contents of which provide an unbroken chronology of world and national events as reported by the news agency.. | | |
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Letters by Otto Frank, Anne Frank's Father, Are Being Digitized for the First Time Jake Rossen Mentalfloss Decades after his family was ousted from their attic hiding space, Otto Frank began corresponding with a pen pal named Ryan Cooper. Throughout the 1970s, Frank and Cooper exchanged letters, with Frank offering perspectives on his time in seclusion and captivity during World War II. His daughter Anne’s famous diary was written while the family was hiding from German forces in Amsterdam. | | |
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The Eastern European Pinkas Kahal: Image and Reality Adam Teller, NLI This new projects lets you locate, catalogue and digitize record books from Jewish communities between the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Through the pinkas of a given community, we can assess the life of the individual and the kahal in all its breadth and all its depth. | | |
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Germany to Return Stolen Max Brod Manuscripts to Israel Haaretz Documents from the estate of Max Brod that were stolen in Tel Aviv a decade ago and later offered for sale in Germany are to be returned to Israel, the German federal police (BKA) and the Israeli embassy in Berlin said on Monday. | | |
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Drafts of Israel’s Declaration of Independence Cannot Be Auctioned, Top Court Rules Ofer Aderet , Haaretz The drafts were written by Jerusalem lawyer Mordechai Beham in 1948 and put up for auction by his sons - starting at a quarter million dollars. Court says they're state property | | |
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First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis ICCROM Study Course in Rome, Nov 2019. Apply Below | | |
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THE S.H.E. EXTENSION A search tool that was built by Pantene to help take bias out of search. As a browser extension, S.H.E. operates on the search backend, filtering and repositioning results to yield more equalized, accurate representations. | | |
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Librarians Are Trying to Encourage Children to Read—by Bringing Books Straight to the Laundromat David Beard, Mother Jones Several initiatives across the USA are turning laundromats into libraries to front-load literacy | | |
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500 year-old library catalog owned by Columbus son found in university collection Romeo Rosales Public Libraries Online The manuscript, which is more than a foot thick, contains more than 2,000 pages and summaries from the library of Hernando Colón, the son of Christopher Columbus who tried to create the biggest library the world had ever known. | | |
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How Palestine's forgotten songs got rebooted, Pierre France, Middle East Eye Electrosteen is intended to celebrate Palestine's rich musical heritage, giving a new lease of life to rarely heard traditional music while celebrating the burgeoning electronic scene. | | |
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Radiohead Is Selling Its 'Hacked' Archives In the Name of Climate Change Brian Kahn, Gizmodo, The band has released 18 hours of OK Computer-era recordings it says were being held for ransom after band member Thom Yorke’s minidisc archive was stolen. The band is donating the proceeds from the sale towards fighting climate change. | | |
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