The Charleston gold rush started in 1867, and James A. M. Turner and the family travelled north to follow it. “By 1967 Westport was surrounded by a prosperous group of goldfields. This position, being conducive to business, attracted a wide range of merchants, storekeepers from the south and also Nelson” (24) Gold had been mined on a…
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We recently entered our Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project for one of this year’s Digital Preservation Awards. Each institution was asked to supply up to three images to accompany their entry. We chose to submit one of the beautiful network graphs featured in a previous blog…
TROVE is an incredible tool unlocking access to a massive array of incredible resources. TROVE, run by the National Library of Australia, is much more than a search service. It provides access to newspapers, books, manuscripts, pictures and maps. It opens up access to the deep web, provides and searches though full-text…
I love this piece of video that goes behind the scenes and the Vatican Archives. As I watched my fingers started twitching to see exactly what was in those beautiful leather bound volumes. The Archive content covers twelve centuries and is stored on 85 linear km of shelving.
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