Posted in Digital Libraries, Texas on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has funded 6 TexTreasures grants. This grant focuses on making special and unique collections of photographs, oral history interviews and historical documents more accessible through digitization. The winners are:
Houston Public Library: preserve and make the videorecordings of significant Houstonians available on the web
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University [...]
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Texas on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In September, Microsoft opened a data center in San Antonio. It is in the Westover Hills area, which is near Sea World and the medical district. This center follows their Environmental Sustainability initiative by making it as eco-friendly as possible.
They learned a great deal when building their last data center in Quincy, Washington and brought [...]
Posted in Internet, Telecommunications, Texas on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Speed Matters has surveyed Internet connection speeds for 2 years now. Their results are available for download. However, you can also see each state up close and personal. Although their download speeds for Texas look right, their upload speed map is way off — it has most of the state uploading at 2 megabits or [...]
Posted in Blogs/RSS, Fun, Software, Texas on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t yet found Wordle, then find 30 minutes of uninterrupted time and play. It basically creates word clouds from either websites or narrative you provide. The result can be modified:
Change case of words
Remove all numbers from the result
Change the font and order of words
Change type of shape or its orientation
Change the colors used
Here’s [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Money, Searching, Texas on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have materials in your library that are falling apart or are at-risk? The University of North Texas has received a grant from the Summerlee Foundation to help rescue them. The grant, Rescuing Texas History through the Digitization of At-Risk Photographs and Maps, will providing funding to digitize these materials and make them available through [...]
Posted in Catalogs, Research, Searching, Texas, Web 2.0 on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For some time, 8 museums have been asking museum-goers to tag their collections in an attempt to see if tagging improves access to their collections. The answer was a definite “yes”, so the museum community is continuing down this road.
The project, called “steve,” is also a set of open-source tagging tools. ”Steve” is not an [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Money, Texas on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The TexTreasures grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission supports the digitization of special and unique collections of photographs, newspapers, interviews and other historical documents, making them more accessible to all.
Of the 28 proposals, 8 were funded:
Houston Public Library — Preserve and make videos of significant Houstonians.
University of North Texas and Center for [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Legal Issues, Research, Texas on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watson found some previously unknown documents related to the Kennedy assassination in his office. They were originally compiled by Henry Wade, the district attorney at the time of the assassination, but were not made public.
Watson has scanned these documents and the Dallas Morning News has made them public. In [...]
Posted in Blogs/RSS, Fun, Money, Texas, Trends on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s coming! In other countries, television programs and videos are already streamed to cell phones. However, here in the United States, it’s a little different.
NBC Universal and News Corp. have banded together to provide Hulu, a free Internet service which provides television shows and movies over the web. Some of their partners [...]
Posted in Catalogs, Searching, Texas on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Google has introduced a set of protocols, Google Book Search API, that allow libraries’ automation systems to include Google’s scanned books into patron searches. Basically, if a library owns a title, they can provide a link to the full-text or to the preview, depending on its copyright restrictions. The University of Texas [...]
