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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