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Facilitating Greater Access To Etds Through Contentdm, Rachel Howard, Tyler Goldberg
Facilitating Greater Access To Etds Through Contentdm, Rachel Howard, Tyler Goldberg
Rachel I. Howard
Bound theses and dissertations (BTDs) have increasingly been supplemented or replaced by electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Since 2002, the University of Louisville Libraries have been building a collection of born-digital and digitized ETDs in order to provide free worldwide access to these titles, and to enable graduate
students to include digital media in their works. In 2009 the Libraries migrated the ETD collection from a homegrown database to CONTENTdm, in order to allow for full-text searching and simultaneous searching of other electronic collections. This article will discuss the cataloging workflows for the different phases of the project, including the …