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Pronouns In Institutional Repository Metadata, Emma Boisitz
Pronouns In Institutional Repository Metadata, Emma Boisitz
Sandbox Series
In institutional repositories, pronouns may appear in descriptive metadata. This presentation will cover the importance of using correct pronouns, explore best practices for finding and utilizing pronouns in descriptive metadata workflows, and suggest resources for such efforts.
Improving Special Collections Discovery With Dcx Digital Exhibits, Rachel S. Evans
Improving Special Collections Discovery With Dcx Digital Exhibits, Rachel S. Evans
Sandbox Series
This short paper and presentation is an update on the previously presented in July of 2021 titled “Automation Using Metadata Filters & Leveraging Research Assistants” with Savanna Nolan. Since that presentation, UGA Law Library served as a beta tester for Elsevier’s DCX – the Digital Commons exhibit solution. Launched late summer 2021, the exhibits that went live from UGA Law pleasantly surprised librarians who were lucky enough to discover that researchers were already retrieving the new digital exhibit content in their search engine results. This short paper shares the reasons why I have preferred working in DCX to build digital …
Preserving Podcasts In Institutional Repositories, Erik Moore, Valerie Collins
Preserving Podcasts In Institutional Repositories, Erik Moore, Valerie Collins
Sandbox Series
In response to the 2020 global pandemic, the University of Minnesota Archives sought to gather digital content documenting the public health crisis and institutional response to COVID-19. Staff identified university-produced podcasts from several departments as information-rich contemporaneous content that was also at high risk of loss. Over the course of this work, we determined that these podcasts should be preserved in our institutional repository, as we came to see University podcasts more broadly as a digital serial publication. Our focus is now on the ongoing maintenance of serial digital publications in a repository and demonstrating the preservation of podcasts as …
Creating Topical Exhibits In Digital Commons, Linda Tesar
Creating Topical Exhibits In Digital Commons, Linda Tesar
Sandbox Series
When the William & Mary Law School Equity and Inclusion Exhibits Committee decided to begin hosting a series of physical exhibits with online components, the Wolf Law Library staff eagerly offered the scholarship repository as the best place to house the online exhibits collection. In late February, the library launched the first digital exhibit, “Black History at W&M Law.” In this talk, Linda will discuss the repository structure and format W&M chose, how different material was integrated into the collection, and give some insight into what worked and what didn’t.