libraries

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• 8/4/2019
  

  PubMed Central Offers a Historical Treasure Trove

  by Jeffrey S. Reznick, Christy Henshaw, Laura Randall, Rosalyn Leiderman, and Kathryn Funk

  The digitization of medical journals now allows access to valuable historical research opportunities.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
  11-23-16
  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology invites academe to collaborate on future of libraries

  “I don’t think we need to save libraries, but I do think we might need libraries to save us.” — Chris Bourg, director of libraries at MIT

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  12-18-13
  

  Naples' Girolamini: The looting of a 16th Century library

  The Biblioteca Girolamini's invaluable fifteenth and sixteenth century book collections have been plundered.

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  12-4-13
  

  Two world-class libraries launch online archive of ancient Scriptures

  The Vatican Library and Oxford's Bodleian Library are teaming up.

• SOURCE: Press release
  6-28-13
  

  National Library of Medicine launches new biomedical history blog

  The NLM's History of Medicine Division has launched a new blog, Circulating Now, to encourage greater exploration and discovery of one of the world's largest and most treasured history of medicine collections. Encompassing millions of items that span ten centuries, these collections include items in just about every form one can imagine—from books, journals, and photographs, to lantern slides, motion picture films, film strips, video tapes, audio recordings, pamphlets, ephemera, portraits, woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs. The NLM's historical collections also include items from the present day: born-digital materials and rich data sets—like the millions of records in its IndexCat database—that are ripe for exploration through traditional research methods and new ones that are emerging in the current climate of "big data" and the digital humanities.