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Brown University Library participates in Northeast Regional Scanning Center
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The Boston Library Consortium, Inc. (BLC) announced today that it will partner with the Open Content Alliance to build a freely accessible library of digital materials from all 19 member institutions. The BLC is the first large-scale consortium to embark on such a self-funded digitization project with the Open Content Alliance. The BLC’s digitization efforts will be based in a new scanning center, the Northeast Regional Scanning Center, unveiled today at the Boston Public Library.
The Consortium will offer high-resolution, downloadable, reusable files of public domain materials. Using Internet Archive technology, books from all 19 libraries will be scanned at a cost of just 10 cents per page. Collectively, the BLC member libraries provide access to over 34 million volumes.
The BLC is an association of academic and research libraries located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, dedicated to sharing human and information resources to advance the research and learning of its constituency. Founded in 1970, the Consortium supports resource sharing and enhancement of services to users through programs in cooperative collecting, access to electronic resources and physical collections, and enhanced interlibrary loan and document delivery.
The members of the BLC are Boston College, Boston Public Library, Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, the Marine Biological Laboratory & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MIT, Northeastern University, the State Library of Massachusetts, Tufts University, University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, University of New Hampshire, Wellesley College, and Williams College.… Brown University Library participates in Northeast Regional Scanning Center
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Brown Librarians help produce Association for Research Libraries publication
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Celebrating Research: A Guide to Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries was recently released to coincide with the organization’s 75th anniversary. The publication is co-edited by Samuel Streit, Brown University’s Director for Special Collections, who also contributed an overview of the University’s Special Collections. In addition to Streit’s extensive contributions, curator Peter Harrington wrote a profile of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection and Ben Tyler, Digital Imaging Specialist, oversaw the design of the page. Housed at the John Hay Library, the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection is the foremost collection in the United States on the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering.
Streit shared responsibility for editing Celebrating Research with Phillip N. Cronenwett, Special Collections Librarian Emeritus, Dartmouth College Library, and Kevin Osborn, Research & Design Ltd. Specific collections of distinction are drawn from 148 member libraries. Among them are the Collection of Rare Maps of the Tokugawa Era from the University of British Columbia Library. The Water Resources Archive from the Colorado State Universities Library, The Emily Dickinson Collection from Harvard University’s Houghton Library, the Orson Welles Collection from Indiana University Bloomington’s Lilly Library, and the Cervantes Collection from Texas A& M University’s Cushing Memorial Library. Each profile tells the story of the collection and provides fascinating insight into how each was acquired, maintained, and developed. -
Friedman goes Hollywood !
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On Monday 9/17, the Library and the Office of Student Life introduced a collection of current DVDs for students at the Friedman Study Center. The collection is comprised of recently released DVDs most popular on American college campuses. Starting with about 100 titles, the collection will grow at the rate of 20 DVDs per month and will eventually contain about 260 rotating titles. Friedman DVDs can be browsed online and movies listed as ‘available’ may be requested at the Friedman Service Desk.
The collection is available only to Brown students.
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