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Be A Digital Survivor: Digitize, Share And Preserve, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, Linda Richter, Alex Kent, Kendall Larson, Pam Gladis
Be A Digital Survivor: Digitize, Share And Preserve, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, Linda Richter, Alex Kent, Kendall Larson, Pam Gladis
Library Services Publications
Are you feeling marooned on your own island? You are not alone. Is your tribe facing challenges, such as time, funding, preservation and storage? Looking to achieve the reward of providing access to and preserving your digital collections? Join these Minnesota digital survivors as they share their quest to digitize, preserve, and showcase their digital objects by using the open source Islandora digital asset management system, customized and supported by PALS. Together these tribes, along with the Islandora community, have formed alliances where they learn from, share with and collaborate to enrich their digital collections. Each tribe will share their …
Digivengers: Digital Preservation In Progress, Heidi J. Southworth, Jamie Dalbey, Anne Stenzel
Digivengers: Digital Preservation In Progress, Heidi J. Southworth, Jamie Dalbey, Anne Stenzel
Library Services Publications
For the past ten years, the Archives and Preservation Unit at Minnesota State University, Mankato has been working with digital collections, but we lacked a formal digital preservation plan until the DigiVengers came to save the day. A small but mighty group, the DigiVengers used their super powers to draft a digital preservation plan using various magical gizmos, thing-ma-bobs, doohickeys, and extra-sensory perception gleaned from trial and error. The DigiVengers utilized lessons from conferences and training to harness the power of preservation. We don’t know our final destination yet, but join us as we share our journey with you. You …
Two Repositories, One Strategy: Marketing Digital Collections, Daardi Sizemore, Heidi J. Southworth
Two Repositories, One Strategy: Marketing Digital Collections, Daardi Sizemore, Heidi J. Southworth
Library Services Publications
In the last year, the Library at Minnesota State University, Mankato has launched two repositories for digital content, Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works and ARCH: University Archives Digital Collections. An important component of developing these repositories has been our marketing efforts. We will share how we worked together with Integrated Marketing, Printing Services, and the Library Outreach Committee to actively promote and advance the collections.
Digital Projects Made Easy: It’S All About Partnerships, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, Heidi J. Southworth
Digital Projects Made Easy: It’S All About Partnerships, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, Heidi J. Southworth
Library Services Publications
This session will explain how digitization projects have evolved at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Learn from our mistakes and successes as we share our experiences digitizing and providing access to: photographs, oral histories, newspapers, electronic theses, and archival materials. We will share the training, workflow and documentation that we have developed and explain how University Archives projects have been outsourced both within and outside our library. We will also share information about our new institutional repository. This session is aimed at organizations in the early stages of their digitization efforts and those that want to see how others do it …