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Library Presentations

2015

Digitization

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Ky Digital Newspaper Program, Kopana Terry Oct 2015

Ky Digital Newspaper Program, Kopana Terry

Library Presentations

Kopana Terry details the University of Kentucky Libraries' past, present and future newspaper digitization program, including how newspaper digitization came to fruition, selecting content for digitization, copyright, digitization from paper vs. film, vendor selection, software, and keeping the program afloat during tough economic circumstances.


Marc And Non-Marc Metadata For Digitized Government Documents, Kathryn Lybarger Feb 2015

Marc And Non-Marc Metadata For Digitized Government Documents, Kathryn Lybarger

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University of Kentucky digitized materials from their chosen agency, the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The titles had already been cataloged in MARC, but they needed Dublin Core metadata for loading the data into their digital library, and also MARC for the new electronic versions, cataloging according to current RDA standards. In this talk, the presenter will describe their workflow, and some of the difficulties encountered along the way.