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Great Expectations: Technical Services And The Library Director, David Banush Mar 2023

Great Expectations: Technical Services And The Library Director, David Banush

Faculty and Staff Publications

Discusses challenges and opportunities for technical services in a landscape of shifting scholarly communication, increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence, and evolving information acquisitions.


Viewing History From The Sky: Geo-Rectification Of An Aerial Photography Collection, Kate F. Boyd Nov 2016

Viewing History From The Sky: Geo-Rectification Of An Aerial Photography Collection, Kate F. Boyd

Faculty and Staff Publications

After years of looking for funding, in 2013 USC Libraries was awarded a grant from the Gaylord & Donnelly Foundation to scan and geo-rectify the South Carolina historical aerial photographs from 1930-1980s. This presentation, given at the Digital Library Federation Forum in 2016, documents the efforts to receive funding and the process of bring these photographs online for users. Thanks to Bill Sudduth of Government Information for his efforts in continuing this process.


Cataloging Images Using Contentdm, Silke Higgins Jan 2012

Cataloging Images Using Contentdm, Silke Higgins

Faculty and Staff Publications

The project description provides insight into the author's first steps at creating and publishing a small collection of digital images with the use of the CONTENTdm digital collection management system and the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set in an effort to enhance the online finding aids of the university library's Special Collections & Archives department with visual materials.


Digital Image Databases: A Study From The Undergraduate Point Of View, Teresa Slobuski Jan 2011

Digital Image Databases: A Study From The Undergraduate Point Of View, Teresa Slobuski

Faculty and Staff Publications

This article investigates current metadata practices in art image databases. Searches were completed in the Bridgeman Education and ARTstor databases using only terms found in introductory art history texts. Details from the search results point to overalltrends in the data and offer comparisons between the databases for particular search sets. The examples reveal tendencies in precision,recall, and consistency, as well as identify some particular issues that may impede successful retrieval for the novice user. A short discussion on the usability of both of the databases' interfaces offers further insight into their respective strengths andpeculiarities.