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Why the British Library Is Spending $55 Million on News Archives - Adrienne LaFrance - The Atlantic Just 2 percent of the British Library's massive archive of print newspapers have been digitized. That's going to change. The institution is completing a seven-year effort to upgrade its news archives, a $55 million (£33 million) project that's aimed at expanding the library's definition of "news." In a blog post about the effort<http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/thenewsroom/2014/04/a-strategy-for-news.html> , curator Luke McKernan<http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/thenewsroom/2014/04/a-strategy-for-news.html> said that "news" can mean "anything of relevance to a particular community at a particular point in time." http://bit.ly/1rP8WVV Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/the-british-library-is-spending-55m-on-news-archives/361346/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1rP8WVV+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]