digital library startup
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Presentation on starting digital initiatives with little funding for the NJLA Conference, April 27, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Brigid Burke Technical Services & Digital Projects Librarian Fairleigh Dickinson University
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- 300,000 Books
- 500 Maps
- Special collections:
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- 5,000 items in Madison Archives (not including Sammartino Archives)
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- 7,000 items in Hackensack Archives
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- No organized digital projects
- Canon scanner and Photoshop
- No server for digital projects
- No budget for digital projects
- No staff (except for me)
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- Money, money, money
- Who is interested in our collections?
- In house or outsource?
- Where are we going to put it?
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- Small projects can be done in house:
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- 100 pages of text, 100 images, or less
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- Text, photo, or audio sources
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- Size of text/photos cannot be greater than 8 x 11
- Larger projects require grant funding
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- 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.
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- Keep it small, focused, and measurable
- Read the grant guidelines carefully
- Look at samples of grants from previous recipients
- Basic parts of a grant:
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- State your objective clearly
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- State why its important
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- Provide a reasonable budget
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- Provide a mechanism for determining if youve met your objective
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- The FDU Library opted to purchase Content dm software, licensing, and hosting from OCLC.
- Other options:
- In-house only database
- Your university (or library or municipality)s web server
- Purchase web server space
- Cloud computing services
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- A scanner
- A program for editing scanned images
- Software for converting podcasts or other sound files to MP3s
- PDF creator and editor
- Computer storage space
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- Start with small projects
- Simple metadata (DC is easiest and most flexible)
- Finish one project before starting another
- Test project?
- Look to current digitization articles and best practices sites for guidance
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- 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
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- Dspace, Greenstone, ePrints (Repository software) :
- http://www.dspace.org/
- http://www.greenstone.org/
- http://www.eprints.org/
- WordPress (interface and hosting options)
- http://wordpress.org/
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- Penn State :http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digipres/bestpractices.html#internet
- Washington State Library:http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/projectmgmt/index.htm
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- 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