Interactive Digital Exhibits: A Gateway to Community Engagement
#beinthecircle is an interactive exhibit for a community read initiative One Book, One Village 2017 at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Inspired by Dave Eggers’ The Circle, the exhibit invited library customers to reflect on how social media had influenced them, individually and collectively, as well as challenge them to imagine a utopian society of their own. My talk will highlight the exhibit conceptualization and content development. Using the exhibit as an example, I will address how special exhibits with the use of digital technology in public library can serve as community engagement and alternative impact assessment.
Presenter: Carol Ng-He, Exhibits Coordinator, Arlington Heights Memorial Library
Let’s get Visual: A New Tool for Assigning RightsStatements.org Statements
Introducing a new visual tool for selecting standardized rights statements from RightsStatements.org and Creative Commons: bit.ly/RightsTool. Created through PA Digital’s rights group, the Rights Tool lets you determine an item’s copyright status, then navigate to the correct statement without undertaking supplemental research or reading, easing implementation and simplifying workflows for hubs and repository managers. Galson will connect the Tool to the work currently being undertaken by the DPLA’s national rights statements working group, as well as to other efforts to encourage the adoption of the RightsStatements.org standard worldwide.
Presenter: Gabe Galson, Technology Projects Librarian, Temple University. Member, DPLA Rights Statements Working Group, and PA Digital Rights group
Integration of primary source sets into K-12 curriculum
This presentation will talk about the integration of MWDL’s primary source sets into classroom curriculum. Primary sources provide rich stories and historical experiences and are widely available today through digitization efforts and hosting on digital library platforms. MWDL is working on creating an education toolkit using primary source sets available in its portal, for integration into K-12 classroom curriculum and also as a supplemental resource for K-12 educators. These resources will support the use of culturally relevant primary sources that are engaging for students as supplemental resources to the traditional curriculum.
Presenter: Kinza Masood, Director, Mountain West Digital Library
Creating Community through Digital Futures: Sustainability beyond the 1's and 0's
The concept of sustaining digital projects is often seen as machine-dependent, focused on continual innovation to ensure content integrity via migration, web platforms or emulation. How can we work to extend this passion for continual innovation to building relationships that sustain and support our projects? This talk will share concrete examples and successful models for creating community around digital projects within and outside your organization.
Presenter: Molly Szymanski - NDSR Digital Preservation Fellow - The Art Institute of Chicago
Partners in History Revisited: DPLA and Beyond
Partners in History Revisited: DPLA and Beyond is a follow up to the 2017 DPLA presentation Partners in History: Chicago State University Archive and International Society of Sons & Daughters of Slave Ancestry Digital Collaboration. The lightning talk will include a debut of the collection on DPLA and share how CSU and ISDSA has “activated” the archive through outreach, "Wall of Remembrance", and public outreach programs.
Presenter: Raquel Flores-Clemons, University Archivist and Director of Archives, Records Management, and Special Collections, Chicago State University
Cultural Heritage in the Round: Considerations for pointing to 3D content from DPLA
Increasingly, museums and universities are integrating virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D modeling applications into their online platforms. This Lightning Talk will address some factors to consider as we embark on pointing to contributing partners' 3D content from DPLA.
Presenter: Tara Carlisle, University of Oklahoma
Search Strategy Strategies: Metadata Aggregation and Umbra Search African American History The challenges of umbrasearch.org search strategy go to the heart of challenges confronting archives and libraries regarding description, metadata standards, diverse collections, histories of non-diverse staff, archival protocols such as “More Product Less Process,” and more. This presentation provides a short overview of how we confront issues of race, description, and diverse collections as one of the largest consumers of DPLA's massive metadata corpus.
Presenter: Cecily Marcus and Mary Lodu, University of Minnesota Libraries
From 2-D Print to a Multi-Faceted Portal: Exploring the 25-year evolution of the LA as Subject Directory
This session examines the 20-year evolution of the LA as Subject (LAAS) directory as it moved from a print to an online format. The online version, allowed it to be edited and expanded by LAAS members in egalitarian fashion—giving each entity represented the power to update their own entry. Now in its 20th year, LAAS aims to move beyond the functionality of a directory to an interactive portal that will provide a dynamic online presence for community archives and a centralized platform for researchers that considers visual media; taxonomy creation; front-end and back-end user functionality; and face-to-face community engagement.
Presenters: Liza Posas, LA as Subject Coordinator, USC Libraries and Stella Castillo, LA as Subject Community Archives Specialist
New Horizons: Integrating the Last 20 into digital projects
The session will outline one approach to assessing titles that fall within a portion of U.S. copyright law (Section 108(h)) to include published works from 1924-1941 into digital initiatives. This talk will include current work that involves library personnel from digital projects, copyright, cataloging, collection development and systems to identify and select titles that qualify in the copyright exception, focusing on defining "forgotten" and "neglected" works. The talk will provide tips for librarians to start a Last 20 project with some initial steps for collections of any size.
Presenter: Virginia Dressler, Digital Projects Librarian, Kent State University
