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The Indiana State Library has several mobile scanning units available for loan to cultural heritage organizations. This program is an effort to enhance the digital collections of Indiana’s public and academic libraries, museums, and local historical societies and archives, as well as those of Indiana Memory. These mobile scanning units will provide basic equipment and [...]
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Initially a holiday commemorating the harvest, Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national holiday in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. Tradition followed that it would be celebrated on the last Thursday of every November. In 1939, a year with five Thursdays in November, President Franklin Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be [...]
Courtesy of the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Based on the enthusiastic response from museum, library and archive professionals throughout the country, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will offer a third, and final, round of competition to distribute an additional 1,000 copies of the IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf. Online applications can [...]
Originally conceived as a tribute to the end of World War I, Veterans’ Day is a federal holiday observed on November 11 honoring all wartime American servicemen and women. Armistice Day, as it was first called for the signing of the agreement that ended fighting between Germany and the Allied nations of the first World [...]
An extensive collection of eBooks is now available to all Indiana residents through INSPIRE, Indiana’s Virtual Library. As electronic full-text copies of published print materials, eBooks can be viewed from any home, business, school or library computer with Internet access in Indiana. The Indiana Shared eBook Collection contains over 2,500 titles from leading publishers of [...]