Posts with the tag: Digitization

The Archivist’s Nook: Virtual Historians All

All you need is a computer–heck, all you need is a smartphone to do historical research these days.  Three years ago, my colleague John Shepherd described our efforts in boutique digitization, which offered digital researchers several carefully selected sets of digital materials for use online.  Since then, we have undertaken many more large-scale digitization projects Read More

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The Archivist’s Nook: Get Off the Road to Digital Perdition

… and come to this Conference! Come all ye lovers of free things digital!  Teachers and archivists, archivists and teachers, we call you all.  The Catholic Archives in the Digital Age Conference takes place October 8-9, 2015 on the campus of The Catholic University of America.  And it’s FREE. Perdition:  I don’t know how to Read More

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The Archivist’s Nook: Digitization – The Revenge

The following post was authored by Digital Archivist Paul Kelly. As John Shepherd wrote in last week’s blog, the first few years of the 2000s saw Catholic University getting its digital feet wet in collaboration with other members of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC). The products of that collaboration (since christened “Boutique Digital Collections”) Read More

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Vatican Digitizes Manuscripts: Available free online

The Vatican Library has digitized over 1000 manuscripts from their collection, and made them publicly available online. Watch this video for more information on the Digita Vaticana project. (Heads up! It’s in Italian) For more great stories, follow us on Facebook (CUA Religious Studies, Philosophy & Canon Law Library) and Twitter (@CUATheoPhilLib)

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