digitization – Library & Information Technology Services http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis Middlebury College Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:00:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 4785360 Recent article by Robert Darnton http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/12/14/recent-article-by-robert-darnton/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/12/14/recent-article-by-robert-darnton/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:56:52 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=24613 Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library, describes many of the issues facing libraries – from digital books to the rising price of journals in this article published November 23, 2010 in the New York Review of books.

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Digital Archives Team update http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/05/03/digital-archives-team-update/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/05/03/digital-archives-team-update/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 00:18:53 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=23033 In order to comply with our rule that ADs are not team members, Mike Lynch has stepped down as leader of the Digital Archives Team.  Rachel Manning is the new Team Leader.  Mike remains available as a resource for the Team.

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Proposal: a Digital Center http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/03/18/proposal-a-digital-center/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/03/18/proposal-a-digital-center/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:34:29 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=22610 In fulfillment of part of its charge, “to create workflows to allow for effective scanning, storage, cataloging, and archiving,” the Digital Archives Team has submitted to the Area Directors a proposal for the creation of a Digital Center within which all LIS digitization efforts will happen.  Details about the center are described in this document.

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Process for nominating and selecting digitization projects http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/03/17/process-for-nominating-and-selecting-digitization-projects/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/03/17/process-for-nominating-and-selecting-digitization-projects/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:04:45 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=22562 The Digital Archives Team was charged with, among other things, creating a process for prioritizing digitization efforts.

We have conceived of a process through which Middlebury College community members can propose LIS resources for digitization, and also conceptualized a committee that would evaluate those proposals and prioritize projects.

The first step is the nomination of a project.  This can be done by a curator of a collection or any faculty or staff member or student who feels an LIS resource should be digitized.   The form for nominating such a project is here and we would like to get feedback on it from anyone who has it to offer.  The final version would presumably be a web-based form, but this would be up to the committee.

Here are the guidelines we suggest the committee use to evaluate nominated projects.  Numerical points (on a scale to be established by the committee) would be assigned to each element.  (The guidelines will be made available to nominators so they are aware of the judging criteria when they fill out their nomination form.)

Please pass along your thoughts either in a comment here or email me at holzapfe AT midd….

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Google Books Settlement 2.0 – The EFF Weighs In http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/01/google-books-settlement-2-0-the-eff-weighs-in/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/01/google-books-settlement-2-0-the-eff-weighs-in/#respond Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:04:37 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=15681 The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Deeplinks blog has an informative and balanced series of posts concerning the revised Google Books settlement that was announced last month.   This settlement has the potential to provide public access to more books than most major research libraries own, but of course there are down sides as well, such as the potential for Google to impose monopoly pricing over subscriptions to institutions such as the Middlebury Library.

Anyway, the EFF posts are informative and well-written.  Take a look.

Part 1, Evaluating the Pros and Cons

Part 2, Evaluating Access

Part 3, Evaluating Competition

Part 4, Evaluating Privacy

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LIS Acquires an ILL Digitization System http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/07/16/lis-acquires-an-ill-digitization-system/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/07/16/lis-acquires-an-ill-digitization-system/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:48:49 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/list/?p=325 Submitted by Joe Toth

LIS has acquired from DLSG (http://www.dlsg.net/) a digitization system that will simplify and speed up interlibrary loan processing. It consists of a Bookeye 2 Color Planetary Scanner with overhead scan design and scan/print electronics that include auto-focus and book-fold correction to safeguard book bindings and to increase scanning efficiency. The scanner also has automatic centering and border removal, as well as text and photographic scan modes. The second component of the system is BSCAN ILL production capture software designed for interlibrary loan departments. It permits staff to scan, review, and rescan items very rapidly, while its image cleanup features provide optimum image quality. It also reads barcoded loan request sheets and automatically sends scanned articles to requestors through Ariel or ILLiad, a highly desired combining of processing steps will make ILL staffers smile! ILL will use the grayscale and color modes sparingly, as they produce files often too large for libraries to receive; however, since this refurbished machine cost less than a new black and white model with a smaller bed, we thought the additional size and features could be used to support in-house projects. The scanner has a 400 DPI maximum, as it is not the manufacturer’s newest model.

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50,000 digitized maps available http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2008/10/17/50000-digitized-maps-available/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2008/10/17/50000-digitized-maps-available/#respond Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:38:10 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/list/?p=134 Submitted by Hans Raum

Government Information Resources

More than 50,000 historical digitized maps are now available online at http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=SSMAP.  The original maps are part of the U. S. Congressional Serial Set and they include a broad range of themes and cover from the early 1800’s to about the 1950’s.  Early maps were created by expeditions that surveyed the American west, Alaska, and other parts of the world, as well as early surveys of cities, harbors and other geographic features for most of the country.  Among the maps of local interest are a 1904 soil survey of Addison County and maps of Silver Lake, Lake Dunmore, and Otter Creek.  Other maps provide detail of specific battles in the Civil War and some early city plans.  Although the maps may be of greatest interest to geography majors, they may also be useful in supporting student research in geology, American history, and ethnic studies, among other disciplines. 

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