Using digital collections como2015
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The document discusses the definition, creation, and applications of digital collections across various organizations, including libraries, museums, and archiving institutions. It lists examples of digital collections, national initiatives, and tools for discovering these resources, emphasizing their importance in research and education. Additionally, it highlights how to evaluate and assist users in navigating digital collections effectively.
Using digital collections como2015
- 1. Using Digital Collections for Reference and Research Russell Palmer Membership Engagement Manager
- 2. lyrasis.org What are we talking about today? • Defining & discovering digital collections • Who creates them? • What types of collections/items can be found? • Examples of digital collections (list)
- 3. lyrasis.org What is a digital collection? • What do you think of when I say the very broad term “digital collection?”
- 4. lyrasis.org What is a “digital collection?” --It’s more than just some scanned stuff... “…organizations provide the resources--including the specialized staff--to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities.” • Council on Library and Information Resources
- 5. lyrasis.org Discussion: Share about digital collections you have used • Share time! • Share with the audience about a digital collection you have used recently for reference, research and/or instruction/user education. • What was the question/area of research/class/program? • What digital collection(s) did you use? • What type of info was found in the collection?
- 6. lyrasis.org Who creates digital collections? • Broadly thinking, who creates digital collections? • Example: • State Library Organizations
- 7. lyrasis.org Organizationally speaking… • National initiatives • Consortia • State library organizations • Individual libraries/museums/archives • Individuals/corporations
- 8. lyrasis.org Areas where digital collections help us • History –National, Local, Regional • Manuscripts • Maps • Newspapers • Photographs • Music/Media • Art and objects • Books • Scholarly literature • Learning objects • ?
- 9. lyrasis.org National initiatives US: • Digital Public Library of America • dp.la • Library of Congress, American Memory • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
- 10. lyrasis.org The World • Europeana (EU sister to dp.la) • http://www.europeana.eu/ • Eurodocs • http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
- 11. lyrasis.org Regional • Documenting the American South • http://docsouth.unc.edu/ • Mountain West Digital Library • http://mwdl.org/ • Sometimes done by individual institutions, sometimes done cooperatively
- 12. lyrasis.org Consortia • The Sheet Music Consortium • http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ • The HBCU Alliance Digital Collections • http://contentdm.auctr.edu/cdm/
- 13. lyrasis.org State agencies • Vanishing Georgia • http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vanga/ • Florida Memory • http://www.floridamemory.com/ • Kentuckiana Digital Archive • http://kdl.kyvl.org/
- 14. lyrasis.org Individual libraries, archives, museums • Cornell University • http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/ • The Getty Research Institute • http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital_collections/ • David Rumsey Map Collection • http://www.davidrumsey.com/
- 15. lyrasis.org History/manuscripts • Hundreds of sites address history and contain manuscripts
- 16. lyrasis.org Maps • Perry Castaneda Collection (UT-Austin) • http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ • Boston Public Library Rosenthal Collection • http://maps.bpl.org/
- 17. lyrasis.org Newspapers • State library or anchor university collections are often significant • Utah, University of Utah • http://digitalnewspapers.org/ • The National Newspaper Project created “Chronicling America” • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
- 18. lyrasis.org Photographs • The HBCU Alliance • http://contentdm.auctr.edu/
- 19. lyrasis.org Music and Media • Library of Congress, American Sheet Music • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/ • The Internet Archive, Live Music Archive • http://archive.org/details/etree • Alan Lomax Collection • http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp
- 20. lyrasis.org Intellectual media • Supreme Court Media • www.oyez.org • Historic Speeches • Vincent Voice Library, University of Michigan • http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/ • Historic Company Information, Columbia University • http://library.columbia.edu/locations/business/corpreports.html
- 21. lyrasis.org Art and objects • Archives of American Art (SI) • http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/online • Getty Research Institute Digital Collections • https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital_collectio ns/ • Art Institute of Chicago • http://www.artic.edu/research/archival-collections
- 22. lyrasis.org The Getty—art books • The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has made 250 art and conservation books available for free! • http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/new-virtual-library-offers-over- 250-art-books-for-free-download/ • ““it is now the mark—and social responsibility—of world-class institutions to develop and share free cultural and educational resources.” • James Cuno, from the Getty, quoting the NMC Horizon Report
- 23. lyrasis.org More books • International Children’s Digital Library • http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ • Making of America (Cornell, Univ of Michigan) • http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/
- 24. lyrasis.org Scholarly resources • Open Access • PubMed Central • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ • Historical journals and magazines • Google Magazines • Hidden slightly within Google Books
- 25. lyrasis.org Learning objects • Merlot • www.merlot.org • Connexions Learning Object Repository, Rice University • http://cnx.org/
- 26. lyrasis.org Tools and Services Discover digital collections more broadly Answer questions and guide users in research
- 27. lyrasis.org Discovering digital collections: tools • General tools • Tools for finding more specific collections
- 28. lyrasis.org DPLA
- 30. lyrasis.org OCLC • WorldCat • www.worldcat.org • OCLC ArchiveGrid • http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/ • CONENTdm Collection of Collections • http://collections.contentdm.oclc.org/
- 31. lyrasis.org Discover (digital) collections geographically • University of Idaho • http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special- collections/Other.Repositories.html • “A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar…” • Note: No longer supported, but still a nice online guide as long as it stays active
- 32. lyrasis.org OpenAccess • Books • Scholarly research • Institutional repositories (IR’s)
- 33. lyrasis.org How can Google help?
- 34. lyrasis.org Evaluating and using digital collections: what to look for • List of what is in the collection • Differentiation between what is available digitally, and what physical items are represented by a finding aid • Search box/advanced search box • Other browsing features/indexing: • Geographic index • Subject index • Author/creator index • What features are most important to you?
- 35. lyrasis.org Assisting library users • Identify their research need (reference interview) • If you have digital collections or special collections/archives, have great finding aids • Use finding tools to identify where relevant collections reside • Become aware of and point users to helpful features of relevant collections (search, how the info is indexed/presented, printing, etc)
- 36. lyrasis.org How can LYRASIS help? • Training and Consulting • Digitization • Preservation • Metadata • Best practices • Collection Management