Supply and Demand: Special Collections and Digitisation

RLG Programs

Ricky Erway, RLG Program OfficerOCLC Programs and Research

JISC CNI MeetingTransforming the User ExperienceBelfast, Northern IrelandJuly 10, 2008

My Checkered Past

RLG Programs Supply and Demand: Special Collections and DigitisationRicky Erway - JISC CNI Jul 2008

““It is not the It is not the

strongest of the strongest of the

species that species that

survives, nor the survives, nor the

most intelligent most intelligent

that survives. that survives.

It is the one that It is the one that

is the most is the most

adaptable to adaptable to

change.”change.”——Charles DarwinCharles Darwin

Image: Auckland Museum

Yale University

Image: from the end of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

Marsh’s Library, Dublin

Princeton University Archives

RLG Programs

Digitization Matters Symposium

11 Yale University Archives vault

Digitize for access

Selection has already been done

Woodcut from Sebastian Brant, “Stultifera…” The ship of fooles… 1570At University of Edinburgh Library

Don’t get further behind

Trinity College Dublin

14 University of Aberdeen

Stop thinking about item-level description

RLG Programs

Quantity over quality

Images: labs.live.com/photosynth/

17 Image: Library of Congress

Build permanent infrastructure

“At this stage, no new effort should be undertaken without a sense of how it will be merged with other existing collections and where the resources for long-term maintenance will come from.”

--Cornell University digital projects librarian

Ongoing programs, not projects

Funding for sustainable workflow at scale

21 Scribe book scanner

Encourage development of format-specific gear

22 University of Glasgow

Learn from your users

Linen Hall Library, Belfast

Be where the users are

Image: informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-2008-beta/

25 Image: Charles Tilford (flickr)

Images: Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin

Combine approaches

Process not projects

Do it all

Images: A View to Hugh (blog)

Share your findings

Images: A View to Hugh (blog)

33 Images: various

The Stokes Imaging System

Images: Stokes Imaging

Funding for streamlined processes

Preserve Right to Reuse/Remix

Work with partners to get what you want

Get going!

Say it out loud

“During the next five years, the Library will strengthen further its distinctive work in two areas: digital information technology and special collections.

At the same time, [we] will work collaboratively with both internal and external partners to increase access to these exceptional tools, systems, and resources; support new modes of teaching, learning, research, and scholarly communication; and preserve, store, and manage traditional and digital materials for future generations.”

Let your goal be discoverability

Discovery happens elsewhere – be there

Think big thoughts

46Images: RLG Cultural Materials

Resources

• Shifting Gears http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/collectivecoll/harmonization/specialcollections.htm

• Blog http://hangingtogether.org/• Web www.oclc.org/programs• Ricky Erway erwayr@oclc.org

• Thanks to Jennifer Schaffner, Merrilee Proffitt, Karen Calhoun, and other OCLC contributors.

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