UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums presents ...

Digital Library: Soup to Nuts

December 3, 2010 - 9:30am - 4:30pm

Registration: $105 / $70 (students)

Description: This session will describe what digital libraries are, 
and provide a framework that attendees can use in their local context 
for designing and implementing a digital library.  Every library and 
collection holds unique materials that can benefit from increased 
accessibility through digitization. The session will describe what 
role digital collection development and management plays in the 
current library environment and then go over the components of a 
successful program, including selection, digitization, metadata, 
access, promotion, and preservation.  Finally, attendees will leave 
with a list of resources and ways to get started at their own libraries.

1. What are digital libraries and what are they good for?

a. Some general notes:  integrated with library's activities, unique 
collections are everywhere, users are everywhere too.

2. Academic context

a. Public library possibilities
b. Small colleges
c. Special libraries
d. Larger research libraries

3. Modules/components:

a. Selection
b. Digitization
c. Metadata
d. Web publication
e. Promotion
f. Preservation
g. Interaction
h. Infrastructure
i. Workflow

4. In-house vs. Outsource

a. In: licensing is easy, harder to build your own DL
b. External:  vendors and what they do.

5.       Grants and Funding

6.       Resources

Instructors:

Stephen Davison: Stephen is Head of the UCLA Digital Library Program, 
prior to which he was the Music Librarian for Special Collections and 
Systems and Assistant Head of the Music Library. His involvement in 
computing and the humantities stretches back to his undergraduate 
degrees in both Physics and Music, through graduate work in 
Musicology, and a "systems" emphasis in "Library School." His 
interests and responsibilities include digital projects involving 
audio and video in particular.

Lisa McAulay: Lisa is a Librarian for Digital Collection Development 
at the UCLA Digital Library Program, where she is the project manager 
for several projects including the Cuneiform Digital Library 
Initiatvie, the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, the Bernard Picart 
18thcentury Encyclopedia of World Religions, and the St. Gall Virtual 
Medieval Manuscript Library. She specializes in developing guidelines 
for full text projects using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and 
metadata approaches for accommodating museum materials in a digital 
library. She holds a MA in English literature from the University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and BA in Government from Cornell University.

Jennifer Weintraub:   Jennifer is currently Librarian for Collection 
Development/ Map Digitization Project Manager at the UCLA Digital 
Library Program.  Before arriving at UCLA in May 2010 she worked at 
Yale University Library on a number of major digitization projects 
and also served as an electronic collections librarian, handling 
licensing and managing vendor resources.  She holds an MLIS from the 
University of Michigan.

For additional information and to register, go 
to:  http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/friday_forums/workshops/2010/101203.htm