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Date: Tue Apr 10 13:59:17 2001
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diglib: Fw: REMINDER: Joint Digital Library Group/Collection DevelopmentMeeting
Digital Library Group:
Many of you have already received this message
but I wanted to make sure that everyone in DigLib
had a chance to read it before tomorrow's meeting.
Thanks, Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Faye Chadwell" <chadwelf@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:53 PM
Subject: REMINDER: Joint Digital Library Group/Collection Development Meeting
Don't forget the joint meeting of CD and the Digital Library Group tomorrow.
Toward that end, I thought you might take a look at these sites outlining
the criteria for selecting what resources to digitize. These may not be the
best, but they offer a starting point.
Basically, I am a strong believer in not reinventing the wheel. On the
other hand, I think there are some opportunities for us to think beyond our
traditional collection(s) and consider collaborative opportunities with
others within the UO or Oregon community and to consider any positive
impacts we could make in this arena for the state of Oregon. It couldn't
hurt the UO image!
1) Columbia University Libraries: Selection Criteria For Digital Imaging
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria.html
MY COMMENTS: I think CU does an excellent job of succinctly pulling
together the issues involved in selecting resources to digitize.
2) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SELECTION CRITERIA FOR DIGITIZATION
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucpag/digselec.html
You might also check out these articles by LJ's columnist Roy Tennant:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/articles/infotech/digitallibraries/20001115_16
873.asp
http://www.libraryjournal.com/articles/infotech/digitallibraries/19980801_32
26.asp
Mark, the DLG may already have seen these sites, but if not, can you
forward these on to that group?
Faye
>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:22:00 -0800
>From: "Mark R. Watson" <mrwatson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>Subject: lib-faculty: Joint Digital Library Group/Collection Development
Meeting
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>Library Staff:
>
>Collection Development and the Digital Library Group
>invite you to attend a joint meeting on Wednesday, April
>11, at 1:30 p.m. in the Browsing Room. The topic for
>discussion is explained in the message below. The
>"Digitalography" can be accessed at:
>
>http://libweb.uoregon.edu/diglib/Digitalography.html
>
>We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.
>
>Mark Watson, Convenor, DigLib
>Faye Chadwell, Head, Collection Development
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark R. Watson" <mrwatson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>To: "Digital Library Group" <diglib@lists.uoregon.edu>
>Cc: "Faye Chadwell" <chadwelf@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 5:30 PM
>Subject: diglib: Fw: UO uncataloged or underrepresented
>
>
>DigLib:
>
>At our meeting today we agreed to take up the
>topic and task of setting down principles to guide the
>rationale development of digital collections. As
>the predecessor to DigLib outlined, this necessarily
>involves establishing principles in four areas:
>
>--The decision to include a given item or set of items in
>our digital collection (Collection Development aspect)
>--The process of creating or converting the information
>into digital form (Technical aspect)
>--The provision of storage space and server capacity for
>the digitized product (Systems aspect)
>--The provision of tools and methods for providing access
>to the digital information (Access)
>
>Before getting too far down the road of digitization, we
>need to answer the question: "How do academic libraries
>set about creating a body of knowledge and begin to convert
>traditional print [analog] collections to a digital format in order
>to satisfy what today's researchers want?" In other words,
>what will our digital collections include and why?
>
>There are many answers. In a message to the Orbis Collection
>Development group, Faye suggested possibilities for
>digitization (see below). Do these resources suggest an underlying
>theme or rationale for digitization? Paula De Stepano explores
>this question in her article "Selection for Digital Conversion in
>Academic Libraries" (see Digitalography). Manfred Thaller
>does the same.
>
>At our next meeting on April 11, we will take up these issues.
>I invite you to spend the next month reading and reflecting on
>this topic. The Digitalography contains some interesting
>articles on this topic. The earlier work of the Digital Library
>Initiative Task Force and especially its "Value Set Questions"
>is instructive. If you have other ideas and suggestions, please forward
>them to the list.
>
>Thanks, Mark
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Faye Chadwell" <chadwelf@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 3:04 PM
>Subject: UO uncataloged or underrepresented
>
>Best Candidates For Digitization
>
>We have several projects already underway that might be of interest to some
>Orbis members. We thought these were good candidates for digitization
>since we embarked on the projects.
>
>1) E-Asia e-books-we are digitizing approximately 500 East Asian books in
>English and the vernacular. I think our site is restricted to UO only, but
>if you want to try it, see
>http://fluffy.uoregon.edu/read/
>
>2) Selected photos from the Doris Ulmann Collection of paper prints,
>negatives with
>subjects from Appalachia (1920's - 1934), approximately 9,000 images.
>See http://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/vrc/demo/ulmannl.html
>
>3) Eugene Print Collection is approximately 118 historic photographs of
>Eugene in the 19th and 20th centuries.
>
>4) Selected aerial photos for Eugene and Corvallis that are requested
>frequently; see
>http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/orephoto/digital_index.htm
>
>Some specific possibilities that we might easily digitize because the
>permission to digitize might be relatively easy to obtain. I think all of
>these would be valuable to Orbis, especially the Oregon members and they
>would be valuable to the state as a whole. Thanks to Katy and Heather for
>these ideas.
>
>5) F874.3.O7 1978 A cemetery survey for the state of Oregon / by The
>Oregon Dept. of Transportation; Salem, Or. : The Dept., [1978 or 1979]
>
>
>6) Index of Oregon Marriages (Bride and Groom) (1906-1970) (Ask at
>Microforms desk)
>
>7) Marriage Index by Groom [for Oregon] (Ask at Microforms desk) - A
>publication of the State of Oregon, covering 1961 to the present
>
>8) Marriage Index by Wife [for Oregon] (Ask at Microforms desk) - A
>publication of the State of Oregon, covering 1961 to the present
>
>9) Oregon Death Index (Ask at Microforms desk) - A publication of the state
> of Oregon covering 1903 to the present. A separate Death Index for
>Portland goes back to 1881.
>
>10) Oregon Biography Index (edited by Patricia Brandt and Nancy Guilford)
>(Or. Coll. and Ref. Z 5305.U5 B7) - tells which directories to use to
>find biographical
>information about Oregonians, especially 19th and early 20th century
>persons.
>This title was published by the OSU Press so maybe they would collaborate
>with us to publish this electronically.
>
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Faye A. Chadwell
Head of Collection Development
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
phone: 541-346-1819
fax: 541-346-3485
email: chadwelf@oregon.uoregon.edu
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/colldev/colldev.html