We are pleased to announce the launch of the redesigned Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL). An initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), AWDL will identify, collect, curate, and provide access to a broad range of…
Camp Kinderland collection is live
Camp Kinderland was founded on Sylvan Lake in Hopewell Junction, NY in 1923 by members of the Workmen’s Circle who worked in the organization’s New York City schools. The camp’s founders sought to create a summer youth camp that would…
Collecting Photography from the Arab World
Akkasah, the Center for Digital Photography at NYUAD, has been collecting photography from the Arab world. Under DLTS’s direction, they are digitizing these images, which DLTS will then preserve and publish through finding aids. To read about Akkasah, please see…
Born-Digital workflows and the Jeremy Blake Papers
(this post is a shortened version of the originally published NDSR blog post. This is the first in a series of updates by NYU Libraries Fellow Julia Kim) While the Digital Library and Technical Services department has long worked to…
Indian Ocean site launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Indian Ocean Digital Collection, a site that gathers together a diverse group of materials from the region. This site is a collaboration of several departments: site vision and content curation from…
Videos from the Armenian struggle
NYU Abu Dhabi has acquired archival footage from Bars Media Documentary Film Studio, chronicling the struggles in the hotspots of the former Soviet Union. Bars Media (“Bars” means “simple” or “clear”), one of the first independent film companies in Armenia, specializes…
CNI fall 2014 Dispatch: It’s all about relationships
At CNI 2014, I decided to pick a topic and focus, rather than graze on all the various and…
Image collections are rolling out!
Some months ago, during the Libraries all-staff meeting, we mentioned that our image publication process has reached maturity. This statement has proven to be true, and we have become more and more efficient at providing access to some of the…
Preparing for vendors
We do a lot of digitization of print materials in-house, but there are occasions when we engage the services of a vendor. Packaging the materials to be transported to the vendor is an important task, and one that involves people…
Time to rethink an old workflow
Though my involvement as project manager of NYU’s Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library dates from 2004, this project is even older than that. And we continue to add new materials and provide new services to this collection. Over the 10+ years…