LITA Blog

Speaker: Jennifer Ward, University of Washington Libraries
Jennifer started by showing a YouTube video, “Finding Time in the Penn State Libraries,” to illustrate the problems searchers have when looking for material through library catalogs. I was amused when I looked for the video that another librarian has posted a video response, “Finding Time [...]

Speaker: Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
Mark discussed the experienced he has had as manager of the Digital Projects Unit at the University of North Texas Libraries. Their projects include the Portal to Texas History, a multi-institutional repository of approximately 20,000 items relating to Texas History; the CyberCemetery, a collection of websites from defunct [...]

Speakers:
Gretchen Gueguen, Digital Collections Librarian, University of Maryland Libraries
Jennifer O’Brien Roper, Metadata Librarian, University of Maryland Libraries
PowerPoint presentation
Gretchen Gueguen began the session by giving an overview of the work done by the University of Maryland Libraries. UM has identified four basic types of digital collections:

Thematic collections, sometimes containing multiple types of digital objects, tightly [...]

Speakers:
Chieko Maene, Map Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Library
John Shuler, Government Documents Department Head, University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Chieko Maene began the session with an overview of Web services, particularly the concepts of reusability, information sharing, and service orientation. She focused on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and its standards for Web [...]

“Save America’s Treasures: Preservation of Rare Acetate and Vinyl Recording Transcriptions”
Speaker: Dr. John Rumble, Senior Historian
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
(operated by the non-profit Country Music Foundation)
Dr. Rumble spoke about the history of the CMHFM, which opened in 1967. It new location opened in 2001, and the Bob Pinson Recorded Sound Collection now [...]