Whether starting a new repository or migrating an existing collection into a new environment,
institutions face many choices and challenges. Within the managed technology services unit
of NITLE, DSpace is the supported platform of choice for an institutional repository. As an
open source application, DSpace is a low-cost and flexible option for repository development.

NITLE's mission is to help participants using DSpace to become effective users quickly and
efficiently. Participating campuses--whether using the NITLE DSpace Service (a managed
service) or self-hosting DSpace--benefit from the professional development opportunities
and peer communities of practice that NITLE offers. DSpace user community meetings, both
face-to-face and virtual, give participants the opportunity to share best-case practices and to
leverage each other's expertise to make better use of the DSpace technology. NITLE also
offers DSpace workshops in a virtual environment as well as delivered face-to-face to
interested campuses, providing additional support to the NITLE DSpace community.

Manakin is the new custom interface tool kit recently released with DSpace version 1.5.
Manakin has a modular framework that allows any institution using DSpace the ability to
customize the campus repository to have a "look and feel" that meets the specific needs of
the campus repository, community within the repository, and / or collections within the
communities of that repository. NITLE believes that Manakin offers great value to DSpace
users who wish to customize their DSpace instances.

This poster will focus on examples that illustrate 4 different results (themes) from using
Manakin when applied to the DSpace 1.5 default as the base. The poster will show what
Manakin can do for the repository.

Christina Richison, NITLE Information Services, Technical Services Specialist, NITLE

NITLE, the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, is a not-for-profit
organization that enables small, undergraduate-focused colleges and universities stay
current in digital technologies and focused on education-centered goals. NITLE offers
professional development opportunities, peer communities of practice, and managed
technology services. NITLE aggregates the needs from participating institutions so that
cost-effective program development and technical solutions are attainable with
minimal cost and risk.

The Research Computing Lab, of the University of Virginia's Charles L. Brown Science and Engineering Library, has been collaborating with the University of Virginia's Department of Biology and Mountain Lake Biological Station to develop a digital herbarium collection. The digitization of this collection will improve access to the collection, while also preserving the knowledge stored in the physical collection and held by those who curate the collections. Immediately upon digitization, this collection will become available to a far wider audience, rather than just those who visit the semi-remote research facility during the summer months.

In addition to these basic digitization goals, we have aligned with the efforts of the NSF-funded SERNEC (Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections) project to develop standards for digital collections, funding, resources, and preservation of expert knowledge in Southeast herbaria. This wider collaboration will allow insufficiently-funded institutions the opportunity to pool resources with other institutions and still successfully preserve and increase access to their institution's herbaria. The potential impact of increased access to herbaria is significant. Newly discovered herbaria data, timescale collections, and subsequent opportunities for powerful computation and analysis, increases the potential for new discoveries and better decision-making around botanical resources in the Southeast.

Andrew Sallans, Research Computing Lab Manager, University of Virginia
Sherry Lake, Metadata Specialist, University of Virginia
Rebecca Pappert, Librarian for Life Sciences, University of Virginia

Additional Authors:
Carla Lee, Director of Science, Engineering and Education Libraries, University of Virginia
Deborah Eshenour, Web and Publications Editor, University of Virginia

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). It supports an average annual enrollment of 5000 students with 69 undergraduate degree programs and 4 graduate programs. Stevenson Library is the main campus library for LHU. With a staff of seventeen, it has operated in a team environment since 2000. Most library operations are administered and performed by teams whose members can be faculty or staff, permanent or temporary. Task forces are subdivisions of teams and are designated to support a particular project. The Digital Task Force, a child of the permanent Archive Team, was asked to create the Library's first digitization project. Task Force members included the Electronic Resources Librarian, the Health Sciences Librarian, the Technical Services Librarian, and the Information Services and Archive Technician.

The poster will review the development of the Task Force and the contributions of the individual members within this team environment. Each person brought unique talents to the project and focused on different aspects of its completion. This allowed a small library with no digitization experience to successfully create the LHU Wrestling Digital Collection. This collection is a part of the Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository.

Brian Ardan, Electronic Collections Librarian
Bernadette Heiney, Information Services Librarian
Joby Topper, Technical Services Librarian
Cathy Weglarz, Health Sciences Librarian

Stevenson Library
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

Images, visual representations of the world and ideas around us, have become a pervasive presence in the 21st century. Technological advances in the past two decades and the growth of the Internet have accelerated the amount of visual material available to us and increased our access to images. Although there has been great deal of enthusiasm for the entry of images into the digital realm, research into the topic of image users has not seen an equal level of support. In an attempt to understand image users' behaviors this study will examine twenty-four participants in four separate user groups, including six in each group: archaeologists, architects, art historians and artists. The choice of these groups of participants creates a situation where two groups, archaeologists and art historians, are expected to need images for pedagogical and research purposes while the two remaining groups, architects and artists, are believed to need images for inspiration and problem-solving aims. These groups of image users will allow for an assessment of image users' behaviors by discipline and underlying needs. This examination will be used to identify the critical characteristics of users' image needs, retrieval and use. The frequency of image needs and the extent of direct image seeking are among these critical characteristics which will in turn lead to the development of a theoretical model to explain users' image behaviors.

Joan E. Beaudoin
Ph.D. Candidate & IMLS Research Fellow
College of Information Science & Technology
Drexel University

This poster focuses on using a wiki technology both as a tool for community outreach as well as digital preservation. With a wiki's unique collaborative interface, libraries are better able to reach out to various constituencies (students, alumni, faculty, community...the world?) in the spirit of collaboration. This not only acts as a promotional tool, but also, invites the community to participate in its own local history, generate genealogical interest and much more. Included also are the web 2.0 social technologies which come part and parcel with a project of this nature. Specifically, we address the notion of a hybrid approach by combining good old fashioned research, oral history and archives with Web 2.0 social technologies (e.g. podcasts, mashups, wikis, blogs) and other folksonomy-friendly web based applications such as Flickr and LibraryThing.

This poster is not intended to address the technical issues of the Wiki-world; rather, we hope to address our peers in layman's terms to describe our experiences, best practices and lessons learned.

Judith Brink-Drescher, Faculty Librarian, Dowling College
Diane Holliday, LISS History Curator, Dowling College

In January 2005, the West Virginia University Libraries West Virginia and Regional History Collection and Special Collections embarked on an ambitious project to digitize a collection of approximately 25,000 historical photographs for both access and preservation purposes. The project included the creation of detailed Dublin Core based metadata records for each photo. The project was conducted without external funding employing primarily student labor. The results of the project have transcended all hopes in terms of the speed of progress, the quality of the results and the popularity with which the digital photo collection has been received by the public. Currently offering more than 27,000 images, the website is currently drawing more than 50,000 visitors each month.

John A. Cuthbert, Director, West Virginia and Regional History Collection and Special Collections, West Virginia University Libraries

This poster focuses on a vernacular photography digitization project currently underway at the Queens College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science (QC GSLIS). The presentation is being made by John Fahs, with quality control and consulting input from my former QC classmate and current NYPL colleague Abigail Meisterman of NYPL Labs. The Global Photos Metadata Project was initially conceived as the final project in Dr. Colleen Cool's Digital Libraries course (GSLIS 753) and is currently being refined as an Independent Study project under Professor Thomas Surprenant (GSLIS 791). The project has been heavily modeled on the Waterways of New York postcard project initiated by Dr. Surprenant and Dr. Claudia Perry of QC.

The Global Photos Metadata project encompasses a subset of 20 images from a large collection (500+ images) from a defunct wire service to which all rights have been acquired. They were originally created as works for hire by anonymous Fleet Street hacks on the crime beat in London from 1965-1981.

The project to date has included scanning both the front and backs of the photos to create high-resolution Tiff files; the creation of access derivatives; the assignment of metadata; and the creation of an access point for end users via Flickr. Collection building is also underway with these images using Greenstone, but for the purposes of the poster the focus will be on the work currently accessible on Flickr in order to present a case study in getting started with a project using metadata in a rapid development project and in preserving fragile photographic materials before creating access for researchers and other stakeholders. The goal is to show how experimentation and collaboration in applying metadata to a special collection of vernacular photography can provide usability to researchers from an artistic, historical and social background.

Vernacular photographs are often considered to be "accidental" art in that they have typically been produced for purposes other than artistic. Sometimes described as "Fine Art Documentary Photographs" or "Outsider Art," the genre is by definition quite large, relatively new in terms of scholarly interest, and due to the nature of the images; both compelling and addictive.

John Fahs, Senior Young Adult Librarian, New York Public Library
Abigail Meisterman, NYPL Labs, New York Public Library

This poster reports my digital library evaluation experiences, including the evaluations of the Moving Image Collections (MIC, http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/), the New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH, http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/index.php), and the NJVid (http://www.wpunj.edu/njvid/).

Usefulness was the primary evaluation criterion for both the MIC and the NJDH. The evaluation of the MIC used FRBR's four tasks (find, identify, select, and obtain) as the framework and uncovered what metadata fields were useful in these four information retrieval stages. The evaluation of the NJDH helped to discover the priorities of themes to add to its collections, why some local museums were not able to participate, and other usability issues. The evaluation of the NJVid has thus far completed its first stage: needs assessment.

Judy Jeng,.Head of Collection Services, New Jersey City University

Academic and research libraries are increasingly becoming involved in digitization activities. As the management of digital projects and initiatives is a relatively new endeavor for most libraries, there is an impact on the libraries' organizational structures, workflows, staffing and budgets. Digitization activities require different models for selection, cataloging, funding, and access. Staff skill sets are different, as well as supporting equipment, and computer hardware and software.

This SPEC Kit was designed to identify the purposes of libraries' digitization efforts, the organizational structures that libraries use to manage digital initiatives, whether and how staff have been reassigned to support digitization activities, where funding to sustain digital activities originated and how that funding is allocated, how priorities are determined, whether libraries are outsourcing any digitization work, and how the success of libraries' digital activities has been assessed. The focus of the survey was the digitization of library materials, rather than the creation of born-digital objects. Survey results were published by the Association of Research Libraries as ARL SPEC Kit 294. While the survey addressed research libraries (primarily academic), there is much in the survey results that might be of interest to small or mid-size academic and public libraries that are considering digital projects. Criteria for digital project selection is one such topic that has broad appeal.

Rebecca L. Mugridge
Head, Cataloging and Metadata Services
Penn State University Libraries

The West Virginia and Regional History Collection's Printed Ephemera
Collection, which dates back to the early history of WVU Libraries'
archival collections, contains more than 100,000 pamphlets, brochures,
event programs, news clippings, and other items about West Virginia and
Central Appalachia. To make this valuable regional collection more
accessible, a new Dublin Core electronic finding aid is being created
which will soon appear on the West Virginia and Regional History
Collection website. The finding aid will eventutally include
approximately 600 full-text digitized items from the collection.

This poster highlights some of the research materials in the
Printed Ephemera Collection and describes the method being used to
create an electronic finding aid for the collection. The finding aid
meets international interoperability digital collection standards and
may well serve as a model for other institutions planning to make
indexes to their similar unique resources available on the World Wide
Web.

Anna M. Schein
Printed Ephemera Curator
West Virginia and Regional History Collection
West Virginia University Archives

I Never Met A Digital Object I Couldn't Cite: Zotero and Alternatives for Personal Digital Libraries

Zotero, a free utility developed at George Mason University, is a client-based application for bibliographic management and document storage while using the web. Based exclusively on open source and on the Firefox browser, Zotero is finding a niche in an open-source world, and recently was cited as the bibliographic management tool of choice for the American Social History Online project. See http://www.dlfaquifer.org/

In this poster, Zotero will be demonstrated and compared to other packages that may be available to users in University settings, and the advantages and shortcomings will be offered. As digital libraries expand, the desire of users to collect objects and even build personal libraries, while maintaining the importance of citing sources correctly, will remain important for anyone who plans to incorporate them into scholarly or popular works.

Jack Widner, Assistant Professor, Reference Librarian, Edinboro University of PA

Acquiring Digital Surrogates of Antiquities Collection for the Institutional Repository: A Collaboration Among Brandeis Faculty, Students and Library & Technology Services

The Classical Artifact Research Center (CLARC), part of the Classical Studies Department at Brandeis University, houses a collection of some 800 archaeological artifacts primarily from the Mid East. Each year a select group of students are awarded internships to manage and research this collection. During academic year 2007-2008, the current group of interns began a project to photograph and describe each object in order to provide broader access to the collection than can be accomplished through local exhibits. Simultaneously with this initiative, Brandeis has launched an institutional repository based on DSpace software. The logical next step was to negotiate the addition of the CLARC digital image collection in the institutional repository. This effort has been a joint negotiation and collaboration among the student interns, the faculty advisor, and Library & Technology Services (LTS) staff members.

The initial collection for the institutional repository consists of about 300 images of some 170 objects in the CLARC collection. Additional images as well as student's research papers, senior honors theses, and bibliographies will be added as they become available. As more research is conducted, metadata for the objects will be updated; therefore, this is an active, living collection in the institutional repository. Future plans include 3-dimensional viewing of the objects.

The presentation will cover decision-making and negotiation processes, metadata choices, metadata crosswalks between FileMaker Pro local metadata set and DSpace qualified Dublin Core, working with multiple manifestations of each object, and the overall experience of collaborating and coordinating with busy students and faculty.

Lois Widmer
Associate Director for E-Research Support
Brandeis University

Dai Wei
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Brandeis University

The Applied Physics Laboratory had a collection of approximately 30,000 digital photographs dating back to 1999 managed using a desktop application called Extensis Portfolio. The collection was mainly used by a few graphic artists and designers. A project was undertaken in 2006 to make the collection web accessible by all laboratory staff. Web access was launched in July 2007. This presentation will explain the project and include a discussion of:

* Defining a metadata schema for the collection
* Using a taxonomy vs. authority lists
* Indexing the Collection
* Designing the web interface
* Conducting the Usability study
* Future enhancements

Karen Higgins
Johns Hopkins University

Balancing the Need for the Efficient Submission of Scientific Data with the Need to Collect Metadata

Providing capabilities for efficient self-submission of scientific data into digital repositories can enable scientists to submit their data for preservation and use by current and future communities of users. Obtaining documentation and descriptions of submitted data from scientists can improve the quality of the submission and facilitate the discovery, use, and curation of scientific data. When designing capabilities that enable web-based submission of scientific data and research-related information into digital repositories, the user interface enabling self-submission must offer simple and efficient ways for scientists and their representatives to contribute metadata, documentation, and descriptive information about the data that they are sharing. Digital repository developers and managers need to meet the challenge to balance the requirements for enabling efficient submission of scientific data with the requirements for scientists to provide metadata, documentation, and descriptive information with their data. Designing the user interface to enable capabilities for the self-submission of data that meets this challenge can facilitate the submission of scientific data that includes the information needed to improve data quality, provenance, and understandability, and to facilitate its preservation for future discovery and use.

Robert R. Downs, PhD
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Archives Manager, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

Dr. Robert S. Chen
Director of CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network)
Columbia University

Part One: Part of the Team: Working with Faculty to Meet Their Digital Goals

Many of the digital projects that have been undertaken utilizing resources of the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections have been initiated by faculty at the college. In some cases, professor and archivist worked very closely through every detail of the project, while in others the archivist merely provided advice on scanning and metadata standards. Some projects involved college resources and personnel exclusively, and others required working with outside vendors and website designers. In this presentation, Jim will be talking about his different collaborative experiences and will suggest ways in which information professionals can be especially helpful when supporting faculty members in their digital aspirations.

Jim Gerencser
College Archivist
Dickinson College

Part Two: Teaching History using Digital Resources

Can the usual secondary and tertiary source readings assigned in upper-level college history classes be replaced by primary sources taken from digital libraries and archives? Have the online resources created by scholars and librarians developed to the point that secondary studies, analyses, and summaries can be put aside in favor of the building blocks of history itself: primary sources?

These questions rest on two levels: first, the debate concerning the value of primary sources vs. secondary and tertiary analyses, and second the question of the viability of current online resources as a vehicle of study for college level students. I will treat both questions, but my primary interest is the latter. What is the state of online history resources, and is it reasonable to expect that they can be used as central reading materials in a college-level course?

My talk is drawn from my experience teaching a 300-level history course using only digital sources. In the process of working with students I discovered both the advantages and the pitfalls of this approach. I will be looking at the subject with the unique perspective as an working instructional technologist with 15 years experience teaching college level history courses and a background as a digital librarian. As such my talk will be of interest to instructors, librarians, and technologists.

Robert Alan Harris, MA, MLIS
Asst. Dir. for Academic Technology, IRT
The William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne

Part Three: Collaborating with Faculty

What do historic architecture, bees, snakes, and multicultural masks have in common?

They're all the subject of digital projects involving collaborations between faculty and the instructional technology group at Bucknell University. Faculty at Bucknell use digital resources in research, scholarship, and classroom activities. Some projects may involve existing digital resources, while others involve creating new resources. Often, there is some form of underlying technology necessary to support the digital project, and that's where the instructional technology group gets involved. With some projects, we are working with the faculty alone. In other cases, we are also working with students in a particular course.

We'll take a look at several digital projects at Bucknell. Emphasis will be on the collaborations between faculty and instructional technologists in creating and supporting these projects and resources.

Michael Weaver
Instructional Technology -- Lead
Bucknell University

Defining and Digitizing a Common/wealth: Towards a Collaborative Approach to the Digitization of Pennsylvania's History, Society, and Culture

Time: 2:00 - 3:00

The presentation will focus on two collaborative undertakings by several of Pennsylvania's library consortia -- PACSCL, PALCI, and PALINET -- in conjunction with Access Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Office of Commonwealth Libraries to help define and create Pennsylvania's digital library.

The first part of the presentation will concentrate on the efforts of the Collection Development Working Group of the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee for Collaborative Digitization (PACCD), a statewide coalition of leaders in digitization of and access to important resources across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Representatives from this working group will report on their activities to develop guidelines for the subject matter and content of a comprehensive, distributed, statewide digital collection of Pennsylvania's history, society, and culture.

The second part of the presentation will elaborate on PALINET and other consortia's efforts to carry out a regional mass digitization operation that complies with the Open Content Alliance philosophy of free and open access through the Internet Archive. With support from a Sloan Foundation grant, PALINET and PALCI member libraries have committed to make a portion of their public domain books available for digitization in order to provide a broad array of research materials to students, faculty, and the community as a whole.

The intersection of these undertakings with the Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository and the Pennsylvania Digital Library metadata repository will also be discussed. Meeting attendees will be encouraged to discuss and provide feedback on these projects, which will then be used to shape the digitization work being done.

John Barnett
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI)

LSTA Projects: From Project Planning to Fruition to Sustainability

Part One: The Lycoming County Women's History Project

Lycoming College, in partnership with the James V. Brown Library and the Lycoming County Historical Society received a LSTA planning grant for a digital Lycoming County Women's History Project. The presentation will focus on the conditions existing in the Williamsport community that led us to envision such a grant and the beginning steps in procuring the grant. Details will be shared about the consulting process and the formation of a community users group to guide the planning and implementation stages for this project. Emphasis will be on the need for careful planning and will elaborate on our use of a project manager not employed by any of the three institutions. Future steps that will occur as a result of this planning process will also be included.

Janet Hurlbert
Associate Dean and Director of Library Services
Lycoming College

Part Two: Manageable and Reasonable: Implementing an LSTA Digitization Grant

Abstract: In September 2001, Dickinson College submitted its first grant proposal for a digital project through the LSTA program. Receiving that first grant provided a valuable foundation on which we have been able to build ever since. We recently completed our third LSTA-funded digital project, this past one being a collaborative venture with Millersville University, and we began work on our fourth project just last month.

In this presentation, Jim will discuss his experiences with submitting, implementing, and sustaining each of these LSTA grants. Jim will address the application process as well as the reporting and other administrative details necessary as part of the grant process. Jim will also speak about the challenges of maintaining and sustaining digital initiatives through the years and will suggest several options as possible solutions to these challenges.

Jim Gerencser
College Archivist
Dickinson College
Waidner-Spahr Library

Part One: Seeing, Seeking and Sensing: Intellectual Access to Visual Collections

Although images are among the most intriguing materials to be found in digital collections, providing intellectual access to them presents unique challenges.

This session sets out to address the various dimensions that must be considered in providing access to images in an online setting. These dimensions are the cataloging of materials, the methods of retrieval, and user expectations.

Joan E. Beaudoin
Ph.D. Candidate & IMLS Research Fellow
College of Information Science & Technology
Drexel University

Part Two: Image Search, Retrieval, and Collaborative Use during the Costume Design Process

Visual information is used during collaborative design processes to convey both factual and affective information. Understanding image use during design facilitates developing digital collections to support communities of practice that need to find, retrieve and discuss images. This session will present results from a pilot study of image use during a costume design process. It will discuss how the findings fit with previous users studies of image use in other contexts and within a larger research framework on image use during collaborative costume design practice.

Rachael Bradley
Ph.D. Candidate
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
Information Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

This session is designed to introduce topics and technologies related to digital libraries and metadata. The session is intended for librarians who are new to digitization projects and digital library concepts. Topics will be covered quickly and at a very broad, general level.

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Libraries expend a huge amount of resources creating and maintaining MARC data for their online public access catalog. Transforming catalog records to MARCXML allows libraries to reuse their MARC data in XML-based digital library projects. Free open source tools for creating MARCXML from MARC, built on a variety of platforms, are available to help librarians make the transformation.

The lecture will present a brief overview of the MARCXML standard and feature some of the tools for creating XML from MARC records. Specific tools will include the Library of Congress MARCXML Toolkit, MarcEdit, MARC4J, and MARC/Perl. Strengths and weaknesses of each of the tools will be explored using actual data.

Michael Bolam
Metadata Librarian for Digital Production
University of Pittsburgh

Increasingly, more institutions are streaming video and audio within institutional repositories and digital library collections to distribute multimedia content to global audiences. In this presentation, we will review the basics of web streaming and present a simple solution that will allow an institution to easily begin to stream video. We will demonstrate techniques using a combination of software that many institutions already own and some additional open-source utilities. We will also cover the steps required to integrate digital video services with the Akamai global distribution network and discuss options for incorporating the streamed video into digital library and institutional repository systems.

Attendees are encouraged to bring laptops to the session.

Eric Smith
Network Administrator
Bucknell University

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As libraries transition their digitization initiatives from ad hoc projects to ongoing programs, there is great incentive to scale-up the work of creating and managing digital objects. The Digital Research Library within the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh has been engaged in such an effort; over the last several years it has worked to generalize its processes, streamline workflows, and automate as much of its digital production work as possible.

This lecture will present our workflow strategies as a case-study, focusing on general principles that should be widely applicable to other library digitization practitioners. Specific topics will include: process mapping, workflow tracking, file management, quality control, documentation strategies, automation design, and custom tool development. Ongoing challenges and future goals will also be addressed.

Aaron L. Brenner
Digital Projects Librarian
University of Pittsburgh

The Archivists' Toolkit is the first open source archival data management system to provide integrated support for accessioning, description, donor tracking, name and subject authority work, and location management for archival materials. NYU has adopted the Archivists' Toolkit for archival management, and has created workflows that leverage the Toolkit to facilitate preservation- and access-oriented digitization; desktop web publishing; and OAI-PMH exposure of archival collections. This demonstration will review the main functionality of the Toolkit, highlighting new features in the latest release. We will then discuss the various authoring and publication lifecycles of finding aid data at NYU and invite questions and discussion.

Brian Hoffman
New York University

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Sibyl Roud
Archivists' Toolkit

Building Audiovisual Collections: An Example from the Archives

Advances in technology have put the possibility of making audiovisual content available digitally within reach for many institutions that could not previously afford to do so. There are unique challenges associated with digitizing and managing this type of material. In this presentation, attendees will learn how to make their audiovisual collections accessible, including digitization software, file formats appropriate for archival purposes, and metadata standards which exist to make this material findable. The Jack Rabin Collection, a digital collection produced by Penn State with significant audiovisual materials, will be used to demonstrate these topics.

Kevin M. Clair
Metadata Librarian
Penn State University

Local History Online: An Open Source Solution to the Management and Access of Historical Collections

The Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System (CVRLS) project provides greater management and online access to its local history and genealogy collections. Like many public libraries, CVRLS had amassed numerous unidentified and unprocessed historical collections but had little experience managing and providing access to them. To complicate matters, CVRLS agreed to assist other cultural heritage organizations in arrangement and access to their respective archival collections. How does a library, with limited resources, establish intellectual control and provide online access to these unique collections? Archon, an open source archival management tool developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This presentation will discuss the selection of an open source management system, usability issues, project workflows, and will emphasize the challenges and benefits of serving history online.

John Lyles
Archivist/Genealogist
Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System