Digital Library Startup

• 1. Brigid Burke Technical Services & Digital Projects Librarian Fairleigh Dickinson University

2.

• 300,000 Books

• 500 Maps

• Special collections:

• • 5,000 items in Madison Archives (not including Sammartino Archives)

• • 7,000 items in Hackensack Archives

3.

• No organized digital projects

• Canon scanner and Photoshop

• No server for digital projects

• No budget for digital projects

• No staff (except for me)

4.

• Money, money, money

• Who is interested in our collections?

• In house or outsource?

• Where are we going to put it?

5.

• Small projects can be done in house:

• • 100 pages of text, 100 images, or less

• • Text, photo, or audio sources

• • Size of text/photos cannot be greater than 8 x 11

• Larger projects require grant funding

6.

• Talk to University Advancement officedeal with privately funded grants, alumni donations.

• Talk to Alumni Association, Friends of the Library, other interested groups.

• Find out what archival materials are being requested from Reference and Archives staff.

• Think about the history of your library, your materials, your university or town.

7.

• Keep it small, focused, and measurable

• Read the grant guidelines carefully

• Look at samples of grants from previous recipients

• Basic parts of a grant:

• • State your objective clearly

• • State why its important

• • Provide a reasonable budget

• • Provide a mechanism for determining if youve met your objective

8.

• The FDU Library opted to purchase Content dm software, licensing, and hosting from OCLC.

• Other options:

• In-house only database

• Your university (or library or municipality)s web server

• Purchase web server space

• Cloud computing services

9.

• A scanner

• A program for editing scanned images

• Software for converting podcasts or other sound files to MP3s

• PDF creator and editor

• Computer storage space

10.

• Start with small projects

• Simple metadata (DC is easiest and most flexible)

• Finish one project before starting another

• Test project?

• Look to current digitization articles and best practices sites for guidance

11.

• Picasa3 (Photos) :http://picasa.google.com/

• Picnik(Photos) :http://www.picnik.com/

• Audacity (Sound Files) :http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

• Switch Sound File Converter (Sound Files) :http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

• CT Developing (PDF creation/editing) :http://www.ctdeveloping.com/ctdeveloping/products/pdftypewriter_info.asp

12.

• Dspace, Greenstone, ePrints (Repository software) :

• http://www.dspace.org/

• http://www.greenstone.org/

• http://www.eprints.org/

• WordPress (interface and hosting options)

• http://wordpress.org/

13.

• Penn State :http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digipres/bestpractices.html#internet

• Washington State Library:http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/projectmgmt/index.htm

14.

• LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative (ends January 2011)http://www.lyrasis.org/Products-and-Services/Digital-Services/Mass-Digitization-Collaborative.aspx

• NJ Digital Highwayhttp://www.njdigitalhighway.org

• DASH (eBrary)http://www.ebrary.com/kb/librarian/dash.jsp