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Queens Memory Project – Public Launch Event – Oct 27

by Scott Voth on October 19, 2011 in digital collections, Digital Humanities, Events

To all GSLIS students, The Queens Memory Project is ready for the public launch of its online archives! We are pleased to invite you to our public launch event to be held October 27th from 5pm-7pm on the 5th floor of Rosenthal Library at Queens College in Flushing. A formal program of invited speakers will [...]

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The Queens Memory Project

by Scott Voth on September 13, 2011 in digital collections, Digital Humanities, GSLISANN

From Christine Parker,via GSLISANN: The Queens Memory Project (QMP) is a site of digital collective memory which began here at Queens College, and in collaboration with Queens Library, as an independent study for GSLIS alumni and project director, Natalie Milbrodt. It is a digital archive, but its public face is a website featuring interviews and [...]

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Book Scanning Project at the ARChive of Contemporary Music

by Scott Voth on July 31, 2011 in digital collections, Digital Humanities, GSLISANN, interns

The ARChive of Contemporary Music and the Internet Archive of San Francisco would like to extend an offer to students studying Library and Information Science at Queens College to be involved in a joint book scanning project. The ARChive of Contemporary Music is the largest collection of popular music in America, with more than two million [...]

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What’s on the Menu? Crowdsourcing at the NYPL

by Scott Voth on June 24, 2011 in Digital Humanities

NYPL Labs is harnessing the power of library patrons to catalog its extensive collection of historical restaurant menus. The collection has over 40,000 items, all with different fonts and formats, and with multiple entries that make OCR problematic. The collection covers the past 170 years. The collection is prohibitively expensive to catalog by the library [...]

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