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Pitfalls And Pratfalls: The Waa Collection At The Milwaukee Public Library, Rose Fortier
Pitfalls And Pratfalls: The Waa Collection At The Milwaukee Public Library, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
An overview of the Milwaukee Public Library's attempt to digitize building plans and architectural drawings in the Wisconsin Architectural Archives. Details the technical details of digitizing an unusual format. Also describes the legal and policy pitfalls that prevented the final collection from being realized beyond the planning stages.
Wwi Postcard Collection: A Community-Based Model For Digital Libraries, Marc D. Bayer
Wwi Postcard Collection: A Community-Based Model For Digital Libraries, Marc D. Bayer
Marc D Bayer
The paradigm shift of academic libraries from information purveyors to places of learning and communicating must occur virtually as well as physically. By creating informal virtual communities around digital collections , librarians can participate in the academic discussion and make more formal collections better known.