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What’s on the Menu? Crowdsourcing at the NYPL

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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Happy Birthday – New York Public Library

Happy Birthday – New York Public Library

by Scott Voth on May 21, 2011 in GSLISANN

Monday is the New York Public Library’s 100th birthday. Check out the festivities at the Belmont Library in the Bronx. And all you librarians, don’t miss this Sunday’s New York Times’ crossword puzzle!

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