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Pimp my bookcart
I wouldn’t normally think to post something terribly off topic (this is meant to be a digital library blog) but I thought that a little humour every now and again might not be a bad thing. I came...
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Broadcasting to the world ….
… not quite, but almost. The Library has a three month trial of the online meeting / web conferencing application WebEx and this week I hosted a training session using the software. In our Causewayside...
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Adobe Max 2007 Conference
Adobe Max 2007 Europe featured hundreds of sessions, lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops on the Adobe product suite. I went along to find out which products and emerging technologies could...
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Imprentit: 500 Years of the Printed Word in Scotland
Our new exhibition, Imprentit: 500 Years of the Printed Word in Scotland (http://www.nls.uk/events/printing-exhibition/index.html) opened to the public today, and it has already welcomed one or two...
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IIPC Featured Member
Earlier this month we had the privilege of being selected as the featured member for the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) a group we elected to join last year to help with the...
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Missing dark matter found in NLS catalogue
You know how those physicists are worried about all that missing dark matter in the Universe. Well, I think I have found it inside our main catalogue. Award me that Nobel Prize for Physics now. Here...
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More flickr additions. The RLS Haig “Official Photographs”
Today I’ve put a number of new photographs into our Flickr account, as a draw to the whole collection that forms part of the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The images have now been...
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The mysteries of Flickr…..
Soldier's comrades watching him as he sleeps, Thievpal, France, during World War I I was looking at our Flickr account as normal this morning and noticed that our most viewed image is creeping towards...
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The NLS Digital Archive
I thought that I should post an update on the blog to let everyone know that we’ve just put the link up on the main NLS site to the Digital Archive. Its been a long time coming, but thanks to the...
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Update from the Planets project (and some good background on digital...
In March 2009 the Planets project engaged in a collaborative WePreserve training initiative to introduce the preservation challenges and the solutions emerging from various European projects. The event...
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