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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.
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 …
Metadata Standards For Digital Records: Helping The Public Find The Records They Need, Cheryl D. Walters, Kayla Willey, Sandra Mcintyre
Metadata Standards For Digital Records: Helping The Public Find The Records They Need, Cheryl D. Walters, Kayla Willey, Sandra Mcintyre
Cheryl D. Walters
Presentation explains how metadata and metadata standards can be used by records managers to make digital records more discoverable and easily accessible by their intended audience, in this case, the general public.
Take Another Look: Introducing The New Face Of Contentdm, Kevin Miller
Take Another Look: Introducing The New Face Of Contentdm, Kevin Miller
Kevin C. Miller
At ALA Midwinter 2011, Kevin Miller, Digital Collections Coordinator at Pepperdine University Libraries, discussed the newly released CONTENTdm 6 and how CONTENTdm helps their library staff to easily manage their collections and make them discoverable to users.
Historic Recipe File (Digital Collection), Rose Fortier
Historic Recipe File (Digital Collection), Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
For over 20 years, from the 1960s until the 1980s, librarians at the Milwaukee Public Library clipped hundreds of recipes from the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. These recipes were heavily used at Ready Reference to answer telephone questions relating to various recipes. Before recipes were readily available on the internet, someone in the Milwaukee area looking for a particular recipe or cooking technique would call Ready Reference. These clipped recipes form the nucleus of the Historic Recipe File digital collection. Many of Milwaukee's favorite foods appear in the recipes in this collection. This collection provides a fascinating glimpse into …
Institutional Repositories At Small Institutions In America: Some Current Trends, Melissa Nykanen
Institutional Repositories At Small Institutions In America: Some Current Trends, Melissa Nykanen
Melissa Nykanen
The research reported in this article was undertaken to determine the level of implementation of institutional repositories (IRs) at small institutions enrolling fewer than 10,000 students. The study analyzed quantitative and qualitative data from IRs at a number of small institutions with the aim of observing relevant patterns and trends that may or may not be unique to small institutions. The study concludes that IRs at small institutions exist in significant numbers, and they exhibit some unique patterns, particularly in the benefits and challenges specific to small institutions, the association with IR consortia, and the focus on student research.