Farewell ‘TASI’, Hello ‘JISC Digital Media’

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Digitisation Service, Events, JISC | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_544" align="alignright" width="67" caption="Photo by Chad Miller"][/caption] On the 5 March I attended the London launch of the rebranding of 'TASI' to 'JISC Digital Media'. Tables were decked with ... Read more..

What is the Library of the Future?

Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in JISC | No Comments »

Last Thursday's Libraries Of The Future (LOTF) event at Oxford University has been well covered elsewhere, so I'll just note a few key themes as I inferred them. LOTF is ... Read more..

BT Archives: Digitisation of Historic Posters

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Posted in Digitisation Service | No Comments »

We've just completed digitisation of a small series of interesting General Post Office posters for the BT Archives; all of which hover around the WW2 period (1930s to 1950s). These were ... Read more..

ULCC/Portico/DPC consortium to undertake JISC preservation study

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in DPC, JISC, News | No Comments »

We've just heard that a consortium of ULCC, Portico and the Digital Preservation Coalition has been awarded the contract by JISC to undertake a Preservation Study of recent digitisation ... Read more..

All the news that’s fit to download

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Events, JISC, News | No Comments »

Friday October 3rd saw the launch of Newsfilm Online, the output of one of JISC's largest and most ambitious digitisation projects. About 100 people were present in the intimate surroundings ... Read more..