We recently digitized some nitrate negatives from the Sylvester Manor collection. In addition to being fragile, this format can also be volatile, and so there’s an urgency to our work. We’re pleased that these negatives are incredibly sharp (see picture…
Another Poly Portrait Surprise
The Poly Portrait surprises continue with this photo of Philippe Petit, the “man on the wire,” who was a speaker at the school now known as Tandon.
AUC Camera
The camera made its way safely to Cairo, and the team at the American University in Cairo set it up, just as they had been taught by DLTS. They sent us a lovely document describing the process, with pictures to…
Digitization is Groovy
Sometimes even a collection that seems pretty straightforward will yield interesting materials. Such was the case for the Poly Archives Portrait Collection, which consists mostly of formally dressed faculty and alumni in typical poses. Amid these photographs was this gem…
AUC has left the building
We just completed a successful training session with photographers from the American University in Cairo. They learned the entire process of digitizing books for Arabic Collections Online. This week, we are shipping a camera to them so that they can…
Special Collections and Bobcat
We’re pleased to announce that a digital collection from Special Collections is now discoverable in Bobcat. Items from the David Wojnarowicz Papers from Fales Library can now be discovered and accessed right from the Library’s main catalog. The magic behind…
Scaling up publication
Earlier this year, we completed work on a massive renovation for our book viewer. The new viewer for books and other media uses scalable software and protocols, such as MongoDB and JSON, to deliver book information and book images efficiently.…
Connected Youth site now live
DLTS, in partnership with NYU Press, launched connectedyouth.nyupress.org , a site for open access reading of the first two books in the book series Connected Youth and Digital Futures. The site builds upon the base of our main open access books site, and was…
New Keywords Book from NYU Press
NYU Press has launched a Web site for Keywords for Environmental Studies, with the goal to create a new “state of the field” inventory and analysis of the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental…
Moloney Sheet Music Now Available
The Tamiment Library and Labor Archives have made sheet music from the Mick Moloney Irish-American Music and Popular Culture Collection available online. These songs are part of a collection that documents the Irish and Irish-American image in American popular culture during the…