Day: October 5, 2006

  • Finding your niche: leveraging limited resources to build a digital program

    Mary Molinaro, University of Kentucky   Mary Molinaro discussed how the University of Kentucky Libraries is leveraging existing resources and securing new ones to build a digital program and become a leader in film-to-digital conversion.  Mary makes some very important points, the first one being that institutions must change the vocabulary in how we discuss…

  • After AACR2: Content standards for resource description and access

    Matthew Beacom, Yale RDA will be: Multinational content standard providing bibliographic description and access for a variety of media and formats collected by libraries today. Developed for use in English language environment; it can also be used in other language communities. Independence of format (i.e., like MARC21) Will support FRBR tags Enable users of library…

  • National Digital Newspaper program: enhancing access to America’s newspapers

    Helen Aguera, National Endowment for the Humanities Mark Sweeney, Library of CongressNational Digitial Newspaper program:  enhancing access to America’s newspapers  NEH Future directions: NEH will only be making one award per state, looking for collaborative partnerships Projects should Have an advisory board Represent the diversity of the state Will consider “orphan titles” Will cover costs…

  • Opening remarks

    August Imholtz, ReadexKolakowski’s “What the past is for”: a reflection on the irreality of the past and its consequences in the digital world August provided a philosophical discussion of Kolakowski’s lecture, “What the past is for” (http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/kluge-prize-speech.html).  The talk was a discussion of history and the idea that there is no historical truth, only interpreted…

  • Welcome to Chestire, VT — Day one of the Readex Digital Institute

    Ok — so its been a few days since I have last posted on my weblog.  Well, I’ve been traveling.  I actually spent the last week in Vermont at the Readex digital institute.  Using Microsoft’s live writer, I’d been blogging the conference but have waited to upload everything till I returned.  So, the posts will…