1 14
100%
Actual Size
Fit Width
Fit Height
Fit Page
Automatic
Brigid Burke Technical Services & Digital Projects Librarian Fairleigh Dickinson University
Digital Library Startup
Embed Size (px)
344 x 292
429 x 357
514 x 422
599 x 487
DESCRIPTION
Presentation on starting digital initiatives with little funding for the NJLA Conference, April 27, 2010.
Citation preview
1. Brigid Burke Technical Services & Digital Projects
Librarian Fairleigh Dickinson University
2.
5,000 items in Madison Archives (not including Sammartino
Archives)
7,000 items in Hackensack Archives
3.
No organized digital projects
Canon scanner and Photoshop
No server for digital projects
No budget for digital projects
4.
Who is interested in our collections?
Where are we going to put it?
5.
Small projects can be done in house:
100 pages of text, 100 images, or less
Text, photo, or audio sources
Size of text/photos cannot be greater than 8 x 11
Larger projects require grant funding
6.
Talk to University Advancement officedeal with privately funded
grants, alumni donations.
Talk to Alumni Association, Friends of the Library, other
interested groups.
Find out what archival materials are being requested from
Reference and Archives staff.
Think about the history of your library, your materials, your
university or town.
7.
Keep it small, focused, and measurable
Read the grant guidelines carefully
Look at samples of grants from previous recipients
State your objective clearly
Provide a reasonable budget
Provide a mechanism for determining if youve met your
objective
8.
The FDU Library opted to purchase Content dm software,
licensing, and hosting from OCLC.
Your university (or library or municipality)s web server
Purchase web server space
9.
A program for editing scanned images
Software for converting podcasts or other sound files to
MP3s
10.
Start with small projects
Simple metadata (DC is easiest and most flexible)
Finish one project before starting another
Look to current digitization articles and best practices sites
for guidance
11.
Picasa3 (Photos) :http://picasa.google.com/
Picnik(Photos) :http://www.picnik.com/
Audacity (Sound Files) :http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Switch Sound File Converter (Sound Files)
:http://www.nch.com.au/switch/
CT Developing (PDF creation/editing)
:http://www.ctdeveloping.com/ctdeveloping/products/pdftypewriter_info.asp
12.
Dspace, Greenstone, ePrints (Repository software) :
http://www.greenstone.org/
WordPress (interface and hosting options)
13.
Penn State
:http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digipres/bestpractices.html#internet
Washington State
Library:http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/projectmgmt/index.htm
14.
LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative (ends January
2011)http://www.lyrasis.org/Products-and-Services/Digital-Services/Mass-Digitization-Collaborative.aspx
NJ Digital Highwayhttp://www.njdigitalhighway.org
DASH (eBrary)http://www.ebrary.com/kb/librarian/dash.jsp
LOAD MORE