Browsing by Subject "digital collections"
Item Embarking on a Digital Journey: Getting Started with Digital Collections(2011-11-14) Baich, Tina; Johnson, JenniferIs your library interested in developing a digital collection but not sure where to start? This pre-conference workshop will provide the guidance you need to launch your library on a digital journey. Topics will include choosing appropriate collections for digitization, hardware and software considerations and options, personnel issues, and planning and creating metadata.Item A Gallery for the Outlaw: Archiving the Art of the Iconoclast(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2013., 2013-04) Pollock, Caitlin M.J.; Battleground, Andrea L.Item Mixed Bag: Describing and Publishing a Collection of Open and Restricted Born-Digital Records using Digital Objects(2020-05-20) Rayman, DeniseArranging and describing collections with mixed open and restricted content can be tricky, and especially tricky when working with born-digital records. Likewise, as with physical material it is often not practical to describe born-digital material to the item level. This presentation will show a method of representing both the openly accessible and restricted born-digital material within a single collection. The method uses folder-level description combined with the published/unpublished feature in ArchivesSpace’s digital objects. This provides a record for all born-digital files in the collection, with a public link to the repository for open material, and a hidden digital object accessible from the staff interface only. This method balances the need for basic description of restricted content while providing privacy to the donor’s materials, and provides maximum clarity for researchers in what is accessible and what is not. It also allows staff to quickly find and access the material when needed, and any temporarily restricted material can be published and unrestricted easily at a later date. The presentation will show this method using a DSpace repository and DSpace’s published/unpublished feature for objects, but it is applicable to other systems as well.Item Organic, Symbiotic Digital Collection Development(2013) Johnson, Jennifer; Palmer, Kristi L.One of the critical success factors most evident in this project is cooperation and collaboration on a community-wide scale. while grants and internal resource allocations provided the necessary start-up funds, partnership working enabled the project leaders to lever additional funds from other sources. Success has bred success, with other partners wanting to participate as a result of initial achievement. Care needs to be taken however, when there is multiple bidding for funds as a partner institution, and clarity of role is required in applications.Item Social Studies in the Spotlight: Digital Collections, Primary Sources, and the Common Core(2013-10) Lamb, Annette; Johnson, LarryItem The Use of Personal Value Estimations to Select Images for Preservation in Public Library Digital Community Collections(2014-05) Copeland, Andrea J.A considerable amount of information, particularly in image form, is shared on the web through social networking sites. If any of this content is worthy of preservation, who decides what is to be preserved and based on what criteria. This paper explores the potential for public libraries to assume this role of community digital repositories through the creation of digital collections. Thirty public library users and thirty librarians were solicited from the Indianapolis metropolitan area to evaluate five images selected from Flickr in terms of their value to public library digital collections and their worthiness of long-term preservation. Using a seven-point Likert scale, participants assigned a value to each image in terms of its importance to self, family and society. Participants were then asked to explain the reasoning behind their valuations. Public library users and librarians had similar value estimations of the images in the study. This is perhaps the most significant finding of the study, given the importance of collaboration and forming partnerships for building and sustaining community collections and archives.