Reasons for having digital collections. Bethel already acknowledges this in this article.
Feb 2009 update of list for digitization resources from Jill Hurst-Wahl, Syracuse professor. Includes catgories for Blogs, Overviews, Worksheets, Copyright, Privacy & Publicity, Conversion (Imaging), Audio Conversion, Moving Image Conversion, Metadata, Asset Management, and Preservation.
Professional organization for American Archivists.
A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. Global in scale.
Version 74, December 31, 2008.
Table of Contents
1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
2.1 Case Studies and History*
2.2 General Works*
2.3 Library Issues*
3 Electronic Serials
3.1 Case Studies and History*
3.2 Critiques
3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*
3.4 General Works*
3.5 Library Issues*
3.6 Research*
4 General Works*
5 Legal Issues
5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
5.2 License Agreements*
6 Library Issues
6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
6.2 Digital Libraries*
6.3 General Works*
6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues*
8.1 Digital Rights Management*
9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies*
Appendix B. About the Author*
Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics
List of universities that have channels on YouTube. Path that was begun by Vanderbilt.
Seminar on uses of Contentdm in October 2008. Includes pdf documents of the presentations.
List of digital collections from all 50 states and multi-state collections maintained by the Library of Congress.
includes links to good digital collection resources and best practice issues.
Interactive resource created by ALA to guide digitization efforts by libraries. Spinner provides quick reference and clicking on the details provides more guidance.
Jill Hurst-Wahl's presentation of how to expand your audience using Digital Collections. September 10, 2008.
Search results on YouTube for Bethel University. Illustrate a YouTube channel for Universities.
Example of YouTube channel for a smaller University. Wesleyan has 2,700 full-time undergraduates.
Article that discusses how to increase awareness of Online Digital Special Collections. Great resource for communicating the value of digital collections in themselves as well.
Reasons for having digital collections. Bethel already acknowledges this in this article.
Johns Hopkins University Home page for Library Digital Programs.The LDP collaborates closely with faculty, library staff, academic departments within the University, and IT@Johns Hopkins.
This site provides current information on the status of LDP projects, including links to many project sites and the opportunity for users to ask questions and submit comments to project team members.
National aggregation of digital collections from Libraries, Archives and Museums funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Can browse by geography, subject or type of object (sound, video, text).
Bass, K., Puckett, C., & Rockman, S. (2008, January). Models of Digital Collection Use in a University Community. Educational Technology, 48(1), 44-49.
Digital collections allow university students and faculty to share academic scholarship across their campuses and beyond. Based on interviews, we present cases of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates to illustrate some factors that seem to determine why they do or do not use collections in their research, teaching, and learning. Findings have implications for the kinds of support structures needed to sustain digital scholarship.
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Resouces to guide the creation and management of digital libraries.
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