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A new grant program for 2009 is designed to promote the digitization of Indiana’s unique historical materials. The Indiana Before Statehood grant program focuses on those materials that document life in Indiana before 1816. All digital files created as a result of this grant project, and the associated metadata records, will be available through Indiana [...]
This week, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization released the World Digital Library. The WDL features digitized books, maps, manuscripts, films, photographs, journals, and sound recordings from libraries and archives around the world. Browse its contents (via different seven languages) by place, time, topic, type of item, or institution. Once you have selected [...]
The Boards of Directors of NELINET and Lyrasis recently approved a resolution to recommend NELINET join Lyrasis. Together, Lyrasis and NELINET will comprise the largest membership collaborative of its kind serving more than 4,500 libraries and cultural heritage institutions in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, Southeastern U.S., and Indiana. The leadership of both organizations recognize this [...]
Governor Daniels has proclaimed April 13-18 as Indiana Wind Energy Week. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) recently designated Indiana as the #1 Wind Power Growth Rate state in the country for 2008. As part of the celebration, two new wind farms will be holding their groundbreaking events this week. The two new farms will [...]
Please join State Librarian, Roberta L. Brooker, as she tours Indiana’s public libraries, meets Hoosier library professionals, and discovers the creative and innovative ways Indiana’s public libraries serve their communities. Highlights from her first tour stops at the Eckhart Public Library, Jeffersonville Township Public Library and Greenwood Public Library can now be viewed online.
This summer [...]