The MetaArchive Cooperative are seeking curators of digital newspaper collections—both born-digital and digitized—to complete a brief survey (link included below) about the digital preservation needs of these collections.
Many unique historical books and newspapers can now be found more easily by researchers and students, thanks to the inclusion of two bibliographical databases in UniCat, the Belgian union catalogue of research libraries. Abraham - Belgian Newspaper Cataloque and STCV - Bibliography of the Handprinted Book in Flanders contain titles from dozens of heritage institutions not previously included in UniCat.
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