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Digitization And Working With A Mountain West Digital Library Hub, Catherine Mcintyre

Catherine McIntyre

This presentation, which includes a brief video, focuses on some best practices for public libraries or other cultural memory institutions to follow when considering undertaking a digitization project. Given from the perspective of a Mountain West Digital Library digitization hub, Utah Valley University, we offer tips on planning and managing a digitization project and which key questions to ask of the hub, to make sure that each partner knows its responsibilities and expectations. This makes for a successful digitization project!

Oral History Curation In An Academic Library, Barbara Lewis, Mary Beth Isaacson, Kimberly Nordon, Alexandra Curran

Barbara Lewis

This four-person roundtable will discuss the different methods and applications that are currently being used by the University of South Florida’s (USF) Oral History Program to curate, present, and promote oral histories. This program, which is based out of the USF Tampa Library, has explored several different delivery models, both traditional and nontraditional. We will examine the digital platforms used by the oral history program, Omeka, LibGuides, and an internally developed media player, and their accessibility and usability for research and teaching. These two platforms provide different structural and organizational models, thus allowing for different levels of curation. In 2009, …

Using Digital Primary Sources For Teaching K-12, Cheryl D. Walters, Anne Diekema, Sheri Haderlie, Heather Leary

Heather Leary, Ph.D.

USU faculty and northern Utah K-12 teachers and library media specialists talk about how to identify and integrate digital primary sources such as photographs, letters, diaries, interviews and more into the curriculum to create engaging lessons. Digital resources such as the Library of Congress' American Memory, Mountain West Digital Library, and Utah Digital Newspapers, as well as tools for organizing the digital objects will be discussed.

Coordinating And Marketing Digital Collections, Barbara Lewis

Barbara Lewis

Coordinating and Marketing Digital Collections

1. What is a digital collection?

2. Staffing / Organization

3. Project management

4. Grant opportunities

5. Reaching your audience

6. Collection portals/guides and more

Rounding Up Unique Collections With The Mountain West Digital Library, Catherine Mcintyre

Catherine McIntyre

No abstract provided.

Using Digital Primary Sources For Teaching K-12, Cheryl D. Walters, Anne Diekema, Sheri Haderlie, Heather Leary

Cheryl D. Walters

USU faculty and northern Utah K-12 teachers and library media specialists talk about how to identify and integrate digital primary sources such as photographs, letters, diaries, interviews and more into the curriculum to create engaging lessons. Digital resources such as the Library of Congress' American Memory, Mountain West Digital Library, and Utah Digital Newspapers, as well as tools for organizing the digital objects will be discussed.

Using Digital Primary Sources For Teaching K-12, Cheryl D. Walters, Heather Leary

Cheryl D. Walters

This presentation was the first in a series of three exploring how digitized primary materials being used in educational settings and classroom teaching. It highlights a Utah training program for teachers that encourages integration of digitized primary sources into K-12 teaching.

Turning Up The Volume On Digital Collections, Catherine Mcintyre

Catherine McIntyre

No abstract provided.

Academic Library As Publishing Agent: Showcasing Student, Faculty, And Campus Scholarship And Publications, Teresa Fishel, Marilyn Billings, Allegra Gonzalez

Teresa A. Fishel

Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves to be a campus publisher. A means of doing this is to implement an IR, providing institutions an opportunity to showcase senior theses, and student and faculty peer-reviewed journals. Presentation includes representatives from a small college, a consortium of small colleges, and a university with a university press.

The Development Of An Ir At An Undergraduate Liberal Arts College: The Macalester College Experience, Teresa Fishel

Teresa A. Fishel

Presentation for bepress at ALA Midwinter, Philadelphia, 2008 for small colleges