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WebJunction is hosting a free two-hour symposium that will feature four presentations on current trends and practicial appraoches to library digitization and preservation projects.
Guest panelists will address:
- Designing a digital preservation system using a framework that includes all stakeholders, from library administrators to archivists to IT workers to vendors
- The difference between access and preservation tools, and why we need to consider both
- Harvesting social networking websites for preservation
- The organizationsl “long-view” of preservation resources, technology, costs and polices.
Panelists include:
- Sarai Lastra, Vice Chancellor of Information Resources/Director of Virtual Library at Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico
- Sarah McHugh, Statewide Projects Librarian, Montana State Library, including Montana Memory Project
- Amy Rudersdorf, Director of the Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina and lecturer at San Jose State University, School of Library & Information Science
- Taylor Surface, Senior Product Manager, Digital Collection Services, OCLC
The Symposium will be held on August 25, 2010 from 2pm – 4pm Eastern Time. Register today!
July 19th, 2010
This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for June are American Civil War Collection, Dallin Aerial Survey Company, 1924-1941, NC State Publications Collection and C.K. Berryman Cartoons.
The organization names below are linked to each organization’s record, if available, in the OCLC WorldCat Registry. OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.
American Civil War Collection (http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_sie_civilw.php?CISOROOT=/sie_civilw)
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/918)
This digital collection was created by Lovejoy Library in 2009. It contains an assemblage of handwritten letters, song sheets, and military orders. Spanning the entire period of the American Civil War (1861-1865), these items gathered together provide a unique and insightful glimpse into the era. The project was made possible by Dr. Richard L. Millett, Emeritus Professor of History at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville who donated the use of his collection to the Library.
Dallin Aerial Survey Company, 1924-1941 (http://digital.hagley.org/cdm4/index_p268001uw.php?CISOROOT=/p268001uw)
Hagley Museum & Library (http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/45081)
This digital collection includes more than 7,500 of the approximately 12,000 images in the Dallin Aerial Survey Company collection. The company specialized in aerial images of factories, private estates, schools, country clubs, towns, airports, rivers and many other sites and some news events of the day. The majority of the photographs concentrate on the Mid-Atlantic region, although Dallin did make trips to other locales within the United States.
NC State Publications Collection (http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/govdocs/cdm/index.html)
State Library of North Carolina (http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/56690)
The North Carolina State Publications Collection is a project of the North Carolina State Publications Clearinghouse and the State Library of North Carolina. It contains both current and historical state publications produced by the various state agencies (Department of Public Instruction, Department of Cultural Resources, etc.) that make up North Carolina State Government.
C.K. Berryman Cartoons (http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/archives/berryman.php)
University of Mississippi (http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/1619)
The 26 original pen-and-ink drawings by political cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman in this collection appeared in print on the editorial pages of the Washington Star. Dating from 1924 to 1941, they all feature U.S. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi.
July 12th, 2010
Please plan to join OCLC for the following Digital Collection Services events at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC.
You may register for the sessions listed below on the OCLC Web site at https://www3.oclc.org/app/ala_registration/.
Share special collections on the Web with easy-to-use CONTENTdm
Saturday, June 26, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Washington Convention Center 210
It’s easy to setup, manage and share digitized special collections worldwide using CONTENTdm and WorldCat.
Learn more by hearing our special guest speakers, Edward Igelsias, Systems Librarian, Electronic Resources and Information Systems at Central Connecticut State University and Kevin Martin, Curator of Digital Collections at the Hagley Museum and Library, as they talk about their experiences with CONTENTdm and the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.
Audience: Prospective CONTENTdm users considering CONTENTdm or CONTENTdm “quick start” to manage and provide Web access to their digital collections. |
Improving discovery of your digital materials
Sunday, June 27, 10:30 – 12:00 PM
Washington Convention Center 142
With OCLC’s Digital Collection Gateway, you can upload metadata of digitized collections from any OAI-compliant digital repository to WorldCat. Learn how library cooperation is creating a global union catalog of open-access digitized materials and how you can be a part of it.
Additionally, Chaim Rosenberg, Director, and Yakov Shafranovich from the Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books in New York will join us to talk about their experience with the Gateway.
Audience: Any organization interested in promoting its digital collections and those interested in using the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway to upload their digital collection metadata to WorldCat. |
Many members of the CONTENTdm team will be available at ALA Annual to discuss your organization’s digital collection environment and plans. If you wish to set up a one-on-one meeting, send us an e-mail at contentdm@oclc.org. Otherwise, stop by the OCLC booth # 3717 to speak with a team member or to see ongoing CONTENTdm demonstrations.
For those of you unable to attend ALA, but interested in learning more about CONTENTdm, please feel free to e-mail us at contentdm@oclc.org.
June 14th, 2010
This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for June are Albertsons Library Digital Collections, Dakota Lithographs and Engravings, Utonian Yearbooks and Fort Wayne Area Economic Development.
The organization names below are linked to each organization’s record, if available, in the OCLC WorldCat Registry. OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.
Albertsons Library Digital Collections
Boise State University
This collection contains photos, documents, maps, and other resources from the Special Collections at Albertsons Library at Boise State University in Idaho. The materials document the history, culture, and people of Idaho and the American West.
Dakota Lithographs and Engravings
North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives
The Institute for Regional Studies has acquired over time a small collection of original lithographs, engravings, and woodcuts published in nineteenth-century periodicals that help document the early settlement era in North Dakota. The collection includes images of the bonanza farm era, Indians, weather, politics, and small-town life. Almost the entire collection has been digitized and is available online. The high resolution image versions have been mounted for this collection, enabling the researcher to view each image in greater detail.
Utonian Yearbooks
University of Utah
The Utonian is the annual yearbook of the University of Utah. This collection created by the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University includes digitized versions of the Utonian from 1905 to 1981. The yearbooks are all full text searchable and are presented using JPEG2000 images.
Fort Wayne Area Economic Development
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; IPFW
The Fort Wayne Area Economic Development digital collection highlights the planning and economic development documents and reports, maps and data for Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana. The collection is a collaborative project between the IPFW Community Research Institute and IPFW’s Helmke Library.
June 14th, 2010
Register now for the CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting at ALA Annual
The CONTENTdm End-user Experience Redesign is underway! Join us to learn about the upcoming release and about synchronizing metadata with WorldCat, and to network with colleagues. Don’t miss the CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting on June 28, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon, at the Washington Convention Center, Room 201.
Register for the Users Group Meeting at ALA Annual >>
Eastern Regional CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting: Proposals due June 1, plus registration will open soon
The third annual Eastern Regional CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting will be held at the United States Military Academy Library at West Point (New York). Sponsored by OCLC, Lyrasis and Nylink, this event will include a pre-conference on August 4, 2010, and presentations and poster sessions on all aspects of using CONTENTdm, building digital collections and and best practices will take place August 5 – 6.
Visit the event site for more details >>
New free webinar—OCLC 101: A guide to your cooperative
This free webinar offers an overview of the benefits of membership in OCLC, valuable resources and opportunities for participation. Designed for anyone who wants to learn more about the OCLC cooperative, this session is open to all. Join us as we review everything from WorldCat to Web-scale Management Services, valuable support and training resources, comprehensive research and advocacy initiatives and much more! We are offering this webinar on Thursday, June 3, 2010, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (ET).
Register for OCLC 101 >>
Last chance to register for the June 10 session on Introduction to Funding for Digital Programs
This course is designed to help institutions develop a strategic funding plan for their digital programs. In addition to exploring the options, both internal and external, for funding, suggestions for developing a successful grant proposal will be discussed. This course provides basic information and is appropriate for libraries, archives, museums and cultural heritage organizations.
Register today for this course >>
May 26th, 2010
North Carolina State Archives enters the 150,000th record
On April 15, a record, titled “The Old North State,” from the North Carolina State Archives, marked the 150,000th record entered into WorldCat using the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.
The record is the August 5, 1870 issue of The Old North State, a title variance of the Carolina Watchman, a historic newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina. The item is part of the State Archives’ North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project and can be viewed at www.worldcat.org/oclc/601578348.
The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway™ provides CONTENTdm users like the North Carolina State Archives, with a Web-based, self-service tool to upload metadata for unique digital collections to WorldCat®—the world’s largest database of bibliographic information. Once records are uploaded, the digital collections receive unparalleled visibility through WorldCat and on the Web. In the next several months, OCLC will expand the Gateway’s capabilities to support all OAI-compliant repositories.
“We started to work with the Gateway after I attended a training Webinar. I wanted to give the Gateway a try and evaluate the process, and I also figured it would be beneficial to have the newspaper collection in WorldCat. My first impression of working with the Gateway was that it went very smoothly,” said Tiffanie Mazanek, Processing Assistant at the North Carolina State Archives.
In 2009, the North Carolina State Archives completed a project to digitize newspapers from its collection that were, up until that time, only available on microfilm.
Now available on the Web through OCLC’s CONTENTdm® Digital Collection Management Software, these collections (www.archives.ncdcr.gov/newspaper/index.html) include papers dating from 1752-1890s from North Carolina cities like Edenton, Hillsboro, New Bern, Salisbury and Wilmington. This online newspaper collection is comprised of a total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable. The project was made possible by a LSTA grant provided by the State Library of North Carolina.
Historic newspapers are fundamental research tools for all researchers, from students and casual readers to university faculty and professional genealogists. They provide a wealth of data about the civic, political, cultural, and social events of the periods they document. Historic newspapers offer an intimate close-up view of the American past that few other sources can provide.
May 18th, 2010
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Save up to $3,500 on an OCLC Digital Archive subscription today with two limited-time special offers, and continue to save in the future with our new Digital Archive pricing.
OCLC’s Digital Archive™ provides a secure storage environment for you to easily manage and monitor the health of your master files and digital originals.
It provides a foundation for preservation of all your digital collections. It also integrates into the workflow of any content management system, including CONTENTdm® Digital Collection Management Software. What’s more, the Digital Archive provides tiered pricing to grow with you as your digital collections grow.
More information
Learn more about our current special offers and new lower pricing for Digital Archive at: http://www.oclc.org/info/digitaloffer/
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If you have questions, please contact us at digitalcollections@oclc.org
May 18th, 2010
This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for May are Connecticut State Library Digital Collections, Senior Theses from The Claremont Colleges, Historic Houston Photographs, and Kenneth Rogers Photographs.
Included in the collection information below is a link to each organization’s record, if available, in the OCLC WorldCat Registry. OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.
Connecticut State Library Digital Collections – http://cslib.cdmhost.com/index.php
Connecticut State Library (WorldCat Registry) – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/73255
These Digital Collections feature objects from the Connecticut State Library, State Archives and Museum of Connecticut History. This includes modern and historical records from the three branches of State government documenting the evolution of state public policy and its implementation, the rights and claims of citizens, and the history of Connecticut and its people.
Senior Theses from The Claremont Colleges – http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/stc/
Claremont University Consortium (WorldCat Registry) – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/5640
Senior theses are original research reports by students at the Claremont undergraduate colleges that reveal whether students have developed the skills and abilities to make significant and meaningful contributions to the body of knowledge in their fields. Theses in the collection are in the form of digitized video or pdf.
Historic Houston Photographs – http://digital.lib.uh.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fp15195coll2
University of Houston, M.D. Anderson Library (WorldCat Registry) – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/5524
Downtown Houston with horse-drawn buggies, the old City Hall and Union Station buildings, verdant parks, and swimming holes. See the Houston of yesteryear in these photographs, gathered over twenty years by Houston Post newspaperman and local historian George Fuermann. The digital collection Historic Houston Photographs is drawn from the extensive group of research materials known as the George Fuermann Texas and Houston Collection.
Kenneth Rogers Photographs – http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com
Atlanta History Center (WorldCat Registry) – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/85073
Kenneth Rogers was a photographer for the Atlanta Constitution from 1923-1972. Rogers covered important news events in Atlanta and Georgia, and captured scenes from the Georgia countryside. The Kenneth Rogers photograph collection is comprised of images Rogers took as head of the Photography Department and Director of Magazine Photography at the Atlanta Constitution and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The collection features images of political leaders, athletes, and celebrities as well as events, such as the Masters Golf Tournament, the Gone With the Wind premiere, the Georgia Democratic Convention, and the textile mill strike of 1934.
May 18th, 2010
This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for April are The Southern: Florida Southern College’s Student Newspaper, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection, and H. L. Bolley Photograph Collection.
Included in the collection information below is a link to each organization’s record, if available, in the OCLC WorldCat Registry. OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.
The Southern: Florida Southern College’s Student Newspaper – http://archives.flsouthern.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/Southern
[WorldCat Registry] Florida Southern College – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/596
This collection contains issues of The Southern newspaper, Florida Southern College’s student newspaper, from 1908 to the present. Newspapers published during the construction of the Child of the Sun structures (1935-1959), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, were cataloged first. Note: Some issues are lost.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) – http://twudigital.cdmhost.com/cdm4/index_p214coll2.php?CISOROOT=/p214coll2
[WorldCat Registry] Texas Woman’s University – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2944
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Collection represents the official archive of the post-war organization of the WASP of World War II, donated to Texas Woman’s University in 1992 and added to by members who served in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, the Women’s Flying Training Detachment, and the meshing of those two organizations to create the WASP. The collection includes over 300 oral histories, 3,000 images, and over 300 separate collections of manuscripts, clothing and textiles, and artifacts.
Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection – http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm4/index_car.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcar
[WorldCat Registry] Virginia Commonwealth University – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/113670
These 15 oral history interviews deal with the history and culture of Carver, a primarily working class African American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, just north of VCU’s Monroe Park campus. The interviews were originally recorded in 2000 as part of a grant funded project described as a “Living Newspaper.”
H. L. Bolley Photograph Collection - http://library.ndsu.edu/digital/bolley-photograph-collection/
[WorldCat Registry] North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2205
The H. L. Bolley Photograph Collection consists of lantern slides taken by Professor Henry Luke Bolley, Dean of Biology and Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology at North Dakota Agricultural College. Most of these images were taken in 1903, when the College and the United States Department of Agriculture funded a trip to allow Bolley to study the chief flax growing areas in Holland, Belgium, Northern Germany, and Russia.
April 9th, 2010
This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for March are Bethine Church Collection, John Muir Correspondence, Charlotte Harbor Area Historical Society and Ulysses Samuel (U.S.) Cleveland Collection, and Edward J. McCauley Photographs.
Included in the collection information below is a link to each organization’s record, if available, in the OCLC WorldCat Registry. OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.
Bethine Church Collection – http://digital.boisestate.edu/cdm4/index_bchurch.php?CISOROOT=/bchurch
[WorldCat Registry] Boise State University – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/772
The Bethine Church Digital Collection provides access to photographs of Bethine Church, wife of the late U.S. Senator Frank Church. The collection includes photographs of Bethine’s extraordinary life as a wife, mother, as the ‘third senator’ from Idaho due to her active participation in public life during her husband’s tenure in the Senate, as well as her recent accomplishments in the Idaho Democratic Party, Sawtooth Mountain Recreation Area, and Sawtooth Society.
John Muir Correspondence – http://library.pacific.edu/ha/digital/muircorrespondence/
[WorldCat Registry] University of the Pacific – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/360
This collection consists of the correspondence of pioneering environmentalist John Muir from 1856-1914. The vast majority of the letters were sent and received by Muir, although the collection also includes some correspondence of selected family members and colleagues. Muir’s correspondence offers a unique first-hand perspective on his thoughts and experiences, as well as those of his correspondents, which include many notable figures in scientific, literary, and political circles of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Charlotte Harbor Area Historical Society and Ulysses Samuel (U.S.) Cleveland Collection – http://ccflhistory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/p15007coll1
[WorldCat Registry] Charlotte County Library System – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/8969
U.S. Cleveland was a celebrated Florida author and historian. In 2004, Mr. Cleveland’s home was destroyed by Hurricane Charley. Afterwards, he donated the remains of his vast collection of photographs and historical artifacts to the Charlotte County Historical Center for preservation and display.
Edward J. McCauley Photographs – http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/mccauley/
[WorldCat Registry] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2147
Edward Johnson McCauley (1926-2003) was a photojournalist and life-long resident of Burlington, North Carolina. He spent more than twenty years on the staff of the Burlington Daily Times-News, covering a wide variety of events in Burlington, across Alamance County, and in other parts of North Carolina. This digital collection contains a selection of images from the Edward J. McCauley Photographic Materials taken between the years 1952 and 1972, mostly for the Burlington Daily Times-News. A majority of the images in this digital collection center around political campaigns and elections as well as other events in and around Alamance County, North Carolina.
March 17th, 2010
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