The Technical Report Archive & Image LibraryManaging Digital Materials

Maliaca OxnamUniversity of Arizona

1.14.200912th Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International Meeting

Phoenix, AZ

Nature and Scope of Collections

•Federal technical reports literature spans a wide range of technical and scientific topics

•These reports contain important information that is poorly indexed and often difficult to obtain

•The project focused on pre-1975 reports to avoid copyright issues

Charge

Develop a collaborative project with the

Center for Research Libraries to identify,

digitize, archive, and provide persistent

and unrestricted access to federal

technical reports issued prior to 1975. Digital Archives

+Print Archives

Prototype - Collection•National Bureau of Standards (NBS)

▫Monograph Series•Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) -

partial▫Division of Biology & Medicine ▫Health & Safety Laboratory▫Civil Effects Test Operations ▫Division of Technical Information

•Bureau of Mines (USBM)▫Bulletin Series

Additional Collections

•Office of Saline Waters•Bureau of Mines

▫Reports of Investigations▫Information Circulars▫Miscellaneous Series

Initial Timeline

•Occurs in phases:▫Years 1-3 Development Phase▫Years 4-6 Building Phase

Years 7-? Continuation of building phase?Project could continue to preserve additional report series & collections as long as there is funding and value and interest to the user community

▫Years X-Z Sustainability Phase

Collaborative Opportunities

•Center for Research Libraries (CRL)•Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA)

▫Regional consortium▫32 members▫Strategic direction for preservation

•University of Michigan▫Mbooks (Google Scanning)▫Hathi Trust

•Stanford University

Collaborative Collection Building

•National collection building effort•Gift-culture model

▫This model can be achieved regardless of the number of participants, geographic location, collection scope, or member assets

Process

Contributor Node

Print Archive

Digital Archives Central

Accomplishments• 17,575 page-views of the TRAIL Pilot site

(7/1/07-6/30/08)

• ~5000 items cataloged & in scanning queue (6/08-12/08)

• Establishing collection sets in OCLC

• 22 participating institutions (to date)

• Completed an inventory of all defunct federal agencies and report series that were issued by those agencies

• Working with Stanford to plan user interface

Questions?

TRAIL Project Info - http://tinyurl.com/TRAILinfo

Pilot Site - http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/

Maliaca OxnamUniversity of Arizona Librariesmaliaca@u.arizona.edu520-621-4612