Transformations Mount Holyoke's Class Project Becomes a Digital Archive Aime DeGrenier Brian Kysela Gail Scanlon.

Transformations

Mount Holyoke's Class Project Becomes a Digital Archive

Aime DeGrenierBrian KyselaGail Scanlon

Who are we?

Why are we here?

What did we do?

How did we do it?

Why did we do it?

Are we really doing it again?

The Early Years

• Early adopter with high expectations

• Cutting Edge vs. Bleeding Edge

• Technology hindered our process and progress—can’t live with it, don’t have a job without it!

• Communication, Building Trust, Good Listening….and admitting when you just don’t know!!

• Team Planning---Bob brought us the desired outcome but like all good chefs we hand selected the ingredients, chose our favorite recipes and used our own kitchen – Project Planning, Project Development, Timeline

• Course Based Website---with student research on historical campus themes, MHC Archive Collection – images, letters, newspapers

• Project Needs---scanning & metadata standards, database tool, web development tool, and lots of time!

The Recent YearsMapping the Memorable

A Cultural & Environmental History of the Mount Holyoke Campus

Mapping the Memorable A Cultural & Environmental History of the

Mount Holyoke Campus

2003

• Spring --Planning

• Summer --Design, Maps, Standards, Infrastructure & Babies(!)

• Fall --Add 25 students, Research, Scanning, Production

2004

• Spring --Clean Up after 25 students, add Reunion Class of 1929

• Summer --New Archvist, Team Recovery

Fall – New Techie guy brings the Images into his flavor of the month database

2005• Spring –ContentDM

arrives—saves the day!

• Fall – planning for Spring 2006 course and 2006 Reunion, (another baby on the way!)

2006• Spring – Mapping the

Memorable II

www.mtholyoke.edu/go/atlas

http://poe.mtholyoke.edu/edu.html

At Last! Atlas Morphs into Online Collection

Archives and Special Collections

Introduction: Summer 2004

New Head of Archives and Special Collections,

Jennifer Gunter King

Ralitsa Donkova, Archives Student Assistant

The Collection in an AccessDatabase

ContentDM http://contentdm.com/

• Steven Folsom, Digital Collections Intern

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/imagebase/index.html

Where We are Today

• Scan-on-Demand service for patrons.

Compound Objects

verso of photograph

compound object metadata

Transformations

www.mtholyoke.edu/go/atlaswww.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/

Aime DeGrenier, [email protected] Kysela, [email protected]

Gail Scanlon, [email protected] Gunter King, [email protected]