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Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer
Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer
Rose Fortier
An exploration of collaboration between institutions for the creation of digital collections using CONTENTdm. Wisconsin Heritage Online and the Milwaukee Public Library reveal how they were able to enter into a partnership to host digital collections from smaller institutions who would not be able to afford to purchase or subscribe CONTENTdm on their own.
For The Benefit Of All: Digitizing Hearings From The 60s, 70s, And 80s, Sonnet Ireland
For The Benefit Of All: Digitizing Hearings From The 60s, 70s, And 80s, Sonnet Ireland
Sonnet Ireland
A common misconception surrounding the government information field is that everything is available online. Surprise, it’s not! Of course, us government documents librarians know that already. While GPO is making an effort to put more and more items online, they suffer the same financial and staffing difficulties that the rest of the library world does. That’s where digital projects, such as the one at the Earl K. Long Library (University of New Orleans), come in. Our Federal Documents section is in the process of scanning U.S. Hearings from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. So far, we have digitized over 600 …
Capitalizing On (Un)Limited Potential: Building Digital Collections With A Student Workforce, Erin Passehl
Capitalizing On (Un)Limited Potential: Building Digital Collections With A Student Workforce, Erin Passehl
Erin Passehl Stoddart
Regardless of size or budget, libraries and archives are being asked to do more with fewer resources. Digitization projects are susceptible to these same demands. One way to make progress in this digital environment with a shoestring budget is by taking advantage of a student workforce. This presentation shares strategies for digitizing collections using undergraduate student labor, including working with students with no prior knowledge or experience with archival materials or digital collections. The presentation will also address managing additional educational requirements for credit-earning interns, appropriate assumptions for timelines and workflows, scheduling dilemmas, student turnovers, and working with an untrained …
The Milwaukee Public Library's Digital Projects: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Digital Collections, Rose Fortier
The Milwaukee Public Library's Digital Projects: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Digital Collections, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
Part of a series of presentations given at a panel discussion at the 2011 WAPL conference. The panel was called "Adventures in Digitization: Digital Collections" and included digitization efforts from six different public libraries of varying sizes. Panel members who had worked with public libraries of various sizes discussed their experiences in creating digital collections, including the successful implementation of digitization procedures and how they were able to overcome obstacles. This presentation covers experiences and collections from the Milwaukee Public Library
Virtual Memories: Organizing And Digitizing Your Photos, Rose Fortier
Virtual Memories: Organizing And Digitizing Your Photos, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
A presentation given at a Milwaukee Public Library program on organizing and digitizing personal photos. Patrons were given information on scanning, photo editing, and sharing photo for the creation of personal digital collections.
A Look Into The Rocky Mountain Herbarium Library Collection And Digital Projects, Chad Hutchens
A Look Into The Rocky Mountain Herbarium Library Collection And Digital Projects, Chad Hutchens
Chad E Hutchens
“From Picas to Pixels” editor Chad Hutchens takes a look into a herbarium library collection that is quickly being digitized and will be available in the new JSTOR Plants database. Dr. Ronald Hartman, curator of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, discusses the physical collection of thousands of plants, as well as the scope of the collection. Larry Schmidt, science and engineering reference librarian at the University of Wyoming Libraries, talks about digitization efforts and the development of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium online databases.