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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
The National Diet Library of Japan to add records to WorldCat
OCLC and Japan’s National Diet Library agree to cooperative effort to make 5 million records from Japanese national bibliography more visible through WorldCat
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 10, 2010—OCLC and the National Diet Library (NDL) have signed an agreement to work cooperatively to make more than 5 million records from NDL more visible and accessible to scholars and researchers worldwide through WorldCat.
In the agreement, NDL and OCLC state their intent “to cooperate for the benefit of libraries, library patrons and end users of information services.”
“We at OCLC are honored to work with the National Diet Library to make the official national bibliography of Japan available in the WorldCat database,” said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. “This partnership will add significant value for the global community of Japanese language readers and scholars.”
“The National Diet Library values its cooperation with OCLC,” said Makoto Nagao, Librarian of the NDL. “Through WorldCat, our records from the Japanese National Bibliography will be of great benefit to global users. We are pleased to share Japanese cultural resources on a worldwide scale.”
The National Diet Library has been using WorldCat for current cataloging of Western languages materials since 2007. This new agreement provides for the contribution of the complete contents of the JAPAN/MARC database, the official national bibliography of Japan, to WorldCat on a regular basis.
NDL and OCLC will work together to add the 5 million records to the WorldCat database. Once records are added to WorldCat, they are more visible and accessible to Web users worldwide through WorldCat.org, the destination for search and discovery of library materials on the Web.
Kinokuniya Company Ltd., OCLC’s distributor in Japan for 24 years, helped to facilitate this agreement.
WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive database of library materials. Updated in libraries and by library professionals around the world at a rate of nearly one new record every second, WorldCat comprises more than 180 million bibliographic records and holdings contributed by thousands of libraries.
Thirty-five national libraries are adding digital images, national files and bibliographies to WorldCat by both batchloading records and online contribution.
Watch WorldCat grow in real time at http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/newgrow.htm.
About National Diet Library
Established in 1948, the National Diet Library has achieved many results over some 60 years as an organization assisting the legislative activities of the National Diet and as the sole national library of the country. As the only depository library in Japan, the NDL acquires all materials published in Japan, preserves them as national cultural heritage, and provides various types of bibliographic data. NDL-OPAC, the online catalog system, is available on the Web at http://opac.ndl.go.jp/index_e.html. The NDL is also developing the digital library in which digital materials are available directly from the NDL website. For more information, visit http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world’s richest online resource for finding library materials. Search WorldCat.org on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
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June 10th, 2010
This is to inform you that the WorldCat Collection Analysis Quarterly Snapshot will be pulled the week of June 21, 2010. We anticipate its release near the end of July 2010.
June 4th, 2010
National Library of China shares its rich collection with libraries worldwide through OCLC’s WorldCat Resource Sharing service
DUBLIN, Ohio, May 27, 2010—The National Library of China will share its rich collections with libraries and researchers around the world as a new participant in the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing service.
Since November 2009, 2.4 million records from the National Library of China have been added to WorldCat, the world’s largest online resource for finding library materials. With those records in WorldCat, resources from the National Library of China are more visible worldwide through the Web. Once records from the National Library of China are discovered in WorldCat, researchers and scholars will be able to access and obtain these important Chinese materials through WorldCat Resource Sharing.
“We live in a global village and become increasingly closer due to ever advancing information technology,” said Director-General Zhou Heping, of the National Library of China. “The National Library of China is pleased to do its part to meet the increasing interest in and need for information about China.”
“OCLC’s mission is to further access to the world’s information,” says Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, “and information from China is playing an increasingly important role in the world. OCLC is pleased to develop this new partnership with the National Library of China to benefit scholars and students of Chinese culture around the world.”
The National Library of China, which celebrated its centennial in September 2009, is the largest library in Asia with a collection of 30 million volumes and articles. The library was established in the final year of the Qing Dynasty, inheriting the Imperial Wenyuange Library collection of the Qing Dynasty, which includes books and manuscripts since the Southern Song Dynasty.
In addition to collecting and preserving records of Chinese culture, the National Library of China provides document consulting services to leaders of the Chinese government to facilitate their decision making, as well as to support research and teaching in China. Now the library will share its rich Chinese collection with libraries worldwide through WorldCat Resource Sharing.
WorldCat Resource Sharing is a unique set of tools built on the WorldCat database through which more than 10,000 libraries in more than 40 countries cooperate to create a global network to simplify interlibrary lending. It provides an integrated set of features that help libraries reduce costs, increase efficiency and quickly satisfy user needs.
According to Andrew H. Wang, Vice President, OCLC Asia Pacific, OCLC’s partnership with the National Library of China began in 1986 when OCLC introduced its CJK system to support cataloging in Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts. The National Library of China and OCLC formed a partnership at that time to create in WorldCat the National Bibliography of the Republic Era, 1911-1949. The library now uses the OCLC Connexion service to catalog its newly acquired titles, and participates in OCLC Worldcat.org for exposure of its holdings on the Web.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 171 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world’s largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
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May 27th, 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
Until July 31, 2010, you can save $500 on your subscription to WorldCat Collection Analysis. We’ll waive the $500 set-up fee and, if you’ve used WorldCat Collection Analysis before, we’ll give you a month free so you can get acclimated to all the great enhancements we’ve made!
WorldCat Collection Analysis helps you make the most of your acquisitions budgets. You get precise data that reveals your library’s subject-matter strengths, gaps, and overlaps.
Order Now! This great offer ends July 31, 2010.
Groups are eligible to receive a 15% discount on new subscriptions purchased by July 31, 2010. Contact us at 1-800-898-6252 or email WCAGeneral@oclc.org for more information.
May 18th, 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
Build preservation into the digital library workflow and SAVE!
Libraries can 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.
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/
If you’re a current CONTENTdm licensee, learn more about exclusive savings for you at: http://www.oclc.org/info/daoffer/
Hurry! These offers end June 30, 2010.
If you have questions, please contact us at digitalcollections@oclc.org
May 18th, 2010
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