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3rd Annual
Upper Midwest
CONTENTdm
User Group
Meeting
November 8 – 9, 2010
Hosted by Minitex
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Upper Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting
Hosted by
Sponsored by
www.oclc.org/contentdm/
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Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
Monday, November 8
9:00 – 9:10 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:10 – 10:00 am
No Muss, No Fuss: EAD Finding Aids Without XML
Rose Fortier, Milwaukee Public Library
Finding aids using Encoded Archival Description (EAD) are a great way of letting your patron base know what special collections your institution has available. However, without a working knowledge of XML they can be very difficult to create. This session will discuss how to create finding aids using EAD standards that can be added to a CONTENTdm collection without using any XML.
10:00 – 10:10 am
Break
10:10 – 11:00 am
Counting on CONTENTdm, Deciphering Statistics and Looking for Alternatives
Eric Celeste, Consultant to the Minnesota Digital Library; Chris Schommer, Library Special Projects, Macalester College; and Johan Oberg, Digital Scholarship and Services Librarian, Macalester College
When comparing the MN Digital Library’s CONTENTdm reports to those of an identical collection on Flickr, Eric became suspicious that the OCLC numbers were a bit off. He will describe techniques for analyzing CONTENTdm logs, what he learned about their accuracy, and how OCLC has worked to resolve the issues uncovered. Chris and Johan will describe how Macalester has moved beyond CONTENTdm's reports to use Google Analytics for a very different and informative view of their collection's usage.
11:00 – 11:10 am
Break
11:10 am ‐12:10 pm
OCLC CONTENTdm Update
Phyllis Kaiden, Product Manager, OCLC Digital Collection Services
What’s coming in CONTENTdm 6? Quite a lot! Come find out about what will be in this major release, the impact on your collections, migration path and schedule. You also will hear the latest about usability studies and see an up‐to‐the‐minute demo of the new public interface.
12:10 – 12:15 pm
Wrap‐Up
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Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
Tuesday, November 9
9:00 – 9:10 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:10 – 10:00 am
Wisconsin Digital Archives : Preserving Electronic State Documents
Abby Swanton, Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library
As more state documents are born‐digital and published only on the Web, it has become increasingly challenging for the Wisconsin Document Depository Program to collect and preserve state documents. Learn how Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning utilizes OCLC preservation tools and CONTENTdm to preserve and provide access to electronic state documents, as well as creating a way state agencies can continue to fulfill their statutory obligation to participate in the Wisconsin Document Depository Program.
10:00 – 10:10 am
Break
10:10 – 11:00 am
How to Massage and Upload Metadata with Diacritics onto CONTENTdm
Jill Strass, Metadata Librarian, St. Olaf College
Learn how to take diacritics from a library catalog to CONTENTdm. Take records from Innovative's catalog, use its export function, then massage the records with MarcEdit and get them ready to upload into CONTENTdm using Excel.
11:00 – 11:10 am
Break
11:10 am ‐12:00 pm CONTENTdm "quick start" Users
Brooke Roegge, Digital Information Specialist, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
Stephanie Bents, Youth Services Librarian, Rapid City Public Library
Stacia McGourty, Digital Initiatives Librarian, South Dakota State Library
Over the past year, a number of institutions in the Upper Midwest region delved into digitization projects using the CONTENTdm “quick start” package. In this “show and tell panel,” you will hear about digital initiatives from the institutions listed below.
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Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
Tuesday, November 9 (Continued)
11:10 am ‐12:00 pm
CONTENTdm "quick start" Users
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) is using CONTENTdm to capture material created and produced by DEED. They are currently digitizing recent and old publications (like “Minnesota Economic Trends” and “Minnesota Employment Review” magazines), but plan to digitize any content worth permanently archiving, regardless of format.
The Rapid City Public Library’s digitization project is part of a larger effort, the Black Hills Knowledge Network that is an information hub for “everything local” in the Black Hills region. The Community Memory component of the Knowledge Network gives citizens and policy makers access to documents, photographs, maps, reports and other historical materials to build a sense of shared history and common purpose in our community.
The South Dakota State Library provides services to libraries within South Dakota and state government. Our purpose in using CONTENTdm is:
‐ Learn how to use it effectively.
‐ Promote its use to other South Dakota libraries.
‐ Facilitate the use of South Dakota State Library resources.
Currently the South Dakota State Library is curating two digital Collections: (1) Libraries of South Dakota showcases the history of South Dakota’s libraries with images and Scrapbooks, and (2) The Capitol Centennial Collection that features the June 19, 2010 celebration of our South Dakota Capitol Building. Future projects will include organizing our vertical file and historic state documents with CONTENTdm.
12:00 – 12:15
Wrap‐Up
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Speakers
Stephanie Bents is the youth services librarian with the Rapid City Public
Library. She has been working on the library’s digitization project since its
inception one year ago.
Eric Celeste, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, consults in the field of library
technology. His clients have included the Minnesota Digital Library, the
Digital Library Federation, the Association of Research Libraries and OCLC.
At MIT, Eric shepherded the creation of DSpace, open source digital
repository management software, developed with HP and now deployed
at hundreds of institutions worldwide. At the University of Minnesota
Libraries he encouraged the development of the UThink blog service, a
wiki‐based staff intranet, LibData and the University Digital Conservancy.
Rose Fortier is the Digital Projects Librarian at the Milwaukee Public
Library. She has been working at MPL for five years; much of that time has
been spent working with digital collections. She has mainly been working
with photograph collections during that time but has recently gotten the
opportunity to expand into non‐photographic collections.
Phyllis Kaiden joined OCLC in September 2009 as the CONTENTdm
product manager. Her career spans both libraries and software systems.
Prior to OCLC, she worked as Program Manager and Development
Manager at Seattle area high‐tech companies. She was born and raised in
New York where she was a librarian at public and academic libraries
before moving into software development of library and student records
systems. Phyllis resides on Vashon Island, Washington and recommends it
to anyone who can deal with living on an island accessible only by ferry
and constantly digging blackberry vines out of the garden.
Stacia McGourty is living proof that you don’t need to be a techie to learn
how to use CONTENTdm. She has been the digital initiatives librarian at
the South Dakota State Library since 2009, despite having no formal
training in that area.
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Johan Oberg is the Digital Scholarship and Services Librarian at Macalester
College. He works with all aspects of digital services within libraries,
including web development and user interaction, and creation of open
access digital content. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's
School of Information.
Brooke Roegge is the Digital Information Specialist for the Minnesota
Department of Employment and Economic Development. She serves the
agency in a dual role as librarian and website administrator, and is also
responsible for maintaining the agency’s social media accounts (Twitter,
Facebook and YouTube). Current projects include creating a digital library
for the agency.
Chris Schomberg is the Digital and Special Projects Associate at
Macalester College DeWitt Wallace Library, Visual Resource Curator for
the Macalester Art Department, and a CONTENTdm administrator for
Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (CLIC) in the Twin Cities. Prior to
moving to St. Paul, Chris was the Visual Resource Curator at St. Olaf
College.
Jill Strass is the transformative agent for digital material at St. Olaf College.
She works with groups both inside and outside the library to transform
books, images and whatever else into digital formats, accessible through
the Internet, using CONTENTdm, and custom‐made tools in Excel. Jill
provides internal consulting services for folks who want to get their
collections online. She also provides project management services, resource
allocation information, explanation and resolution of various digitization
issues and general troubleshooting. She has worked in academic, corporate,
public and special libraries.
Abby Swanton is currently a librarian for the Wisconsin Department of
Public Instruction at Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning. She is
responsible for implementing the Wisconsin Document Depository Program
and managing the Wisconsin Digital Archives. She has devoted her career to
the access and preservation of Wisconsin state government documents.
Abby’s educational background includes an MA in Library Science from the
University of Wisconsin‐Madison and a BA in Classical Languages from the
University of Kansas.
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2010 CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
Planning Committee Members
Josh Hickman
Digital Resources Librarian
608.363.2246
Beloit College
731 College Street
Beloit, WI 53511
Sara Ring
Coordinator, Bibliographic & Technical Services
612.624.4002
Minitex
15 Anderson Library
University of Minnesota
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Lisa Sjoberg, MA, MLIS College Archivist & Librarian [email protected]
218.299.3180
Carl B. Ylvisaker Library Concordia College 901 Eighth Street South Moorhead, MN 56562
Shari Theroux
Archives Assistant
605.626.2930
Northern State University
Williams Library
1200 S. Jay Street
Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401
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Credits for cover images
Blue Earth County Historical Society. Minnesota Reflections, a project of the Minnesota Digital Library, Mankato, MN. Title: Children in cart pulled by goat. Description: Four children in a cart marked Mankato, pulled by a goat. Note on the back identifies Kate, Mildred, Julia and Ruth. 1920?
Carleton College. Title: The Carleton Miscellany, 1964 Fall. Description: A nationally known literary quarterly published at the college. 1964.
Clay County Historical Society. Minnesota Reflections, a project of the Minnesota Digital Library, Moorhead, MN. Title: Red River Flood of 1897, Moorhead. Description: View is to the northwest on 4th Street South from about 7th Avenue. In the foreground Adolph Bowman and Molly Otto sit in a row boat on a flooded coulee. Beyond a man sits on the railing of a flooded bridge which normally crosses the coulee. In the middle distance beyond the row boat stands the Ole M. Martinson house, now home to the Rourke Art Gallery 523 4th Street South. 1897.
Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University. Title: Anniversary ‐ Anti Morale. Description: Sketch of Kim IL Sung sitting on large pile of bones and skulls. Behind him is visible the hammer and sickle communist symbol. Caption with cartoon states "25 June, The Anniversary of the Communist blunder". ‐ description and translation taken from documentation sheet. 1951.
Milwaukee Public Library. Title: Remember When...Milwaukee's Oriental Theater was new? Description: This crowd lined up on Oct. 16, 1929, to see “The Greene Murder Case,” a well‐reviewed mystery starring William Powell, Jean Arthur and Florence Eldridge. It was Fox Silver Jubilee Week. The Oriental had opened in July 1927 as the flagship of the Saxe Brothers fantasy theater chain. The Fox theater group bought it shortly thereafter. Designed by local architects Gustav Dick and Alex Bauer, this $1.5 million escape from mundane cares offered the theatergoer an incredible, dreamy pastiche of Moorish, Byzantine and East Indian themes. Intended as an “artistic temple of Oriental art,” the theater rose on the site once occupied by the Cream City Car House and Mule and Horse Storage Plant. For 25 cents weekdays (10 cents for children) and 40 cents evenings, movie fans could be entertained by the theater building itself as well as by the films, operas, vaudeville and musical shows that played there. There soon would be a great need for escape. A short time after this photo was taken, the stock market collapsed and the Great Depression of the 1930s began. “Remember When” is prepared by the Milwaukee Public Library with resources from the local history collection. 1929.
Mineral Point Historical Society. Title: Miners Underground. Description: It shows a group of miners at work in a mine, with candles on their hats for light. 1880‐1890.
Mineral Point Historical Society. Title: A Pause to Refresh. Description: It is an image of 7 young women and a young man, all wearing hats, standing at the edge of a pond, with a log cabin on the hill behind them. 1880‐1890.
Northern State University. Title: Church & School in Gluckstal, Russia. Description: Sepia tone photograph. Exact date unknown, but before 1898.
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Ripon College. Title: Ripon baseball team, ca. 1890. Description: The Ripon College baseball team, probably sometime during the 1890s, with alumnus Sam Pedrick pictured in the center. ca. 1890.
Oshkosh Public Library. Title: Hotel Athearn, Oshkosh, Wis. Description: Drawing of the Hotel Athearn, with automobiles. The hotel was designed by local architect William Waters and opened in 1891. Date unknown.
University of South Dakota. Title: Carl Gilbertson and woman along railroad tracks. Description: This collection consists of 232 images of black and white photographic postcards, black and white photographs, and postcards from the personal album of Palmer Sigvald Gilbertson during the period of 1900 to 1920. A student of the University of South Dakota from 1910 to 1913, Palmer Gilbertson along with his brother Carl Gilbertson, and other photographers provide a view into the daily life of a student at the University of South Dakota in the early 1900s. The 1913 Coyote yearbook states Palmer Gilbertson was "a slave to no one but his dog,” and continues:"Pilmer is noted for several reasons; first, on account of being a brother of Gillie, account of his dog "Stub"; and lastly on account of himself. He is an all around man in the true sense. Is a good fellow, student, gymnast, and pole‐vaulter.” ca. 1900‐1920.
University of South Dakota. Title: Women's rifle team. Description: "The Women's Rifle Team, under the direction of Sergeant Kilbourn, had a successful season, winning nine out of thirteen intercollegiate matches. The team won from the Universities of Nevada, George Washington, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Kentucky, Michigan, State, and Ripon Wisconsin colleges, and lost only to Carnegie Tech., Washington, Missouri, and Vermont universities. Pi Beta Phi again won the silver‐mounted rifle offered in the intramural rifle shoot, while Dorothy Swedburg was individual high scorer." Seated in front row from left are: Dorothy Swedburg, Gerda McClintic, Florence Parrish, Carol Summerside, Helen Cutler, Betty Royhl, and Shirley Baughman. Standing in back from left are: Sgt. Kilbourn, Ruth Powers, Verda Charleston, Margaret Schlosser, Florence Olson, Lorene Rasmussen, LaVerne Williamson, and Mary Shouse(1934 Coyote). 1934.
University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee Libraries. Title: Freedom Day School Poster, Description: This poster was created during the civil rights era to promote the boycott of Milwaukee Public Schools and encourage attendance at temporary, alternative schools known as freedom schools. The image is part of the online collection: The March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project (http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/march/index.cfm). 1964.
Wisconsin Historical Society. Title: Neenah, Wis., 1870. Description: This bird’s‐eye view of Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1870 is typical of the images created in the18th and early 19th centuries of towns and cities throughout the country that combined a map of the area with a more artistic view of the landscape depicting such features as houses, factories, churches, and trees. 1870.
Wisconsin Historical Society. Title: Waa‐Na‐Taa or the Foremost In Battle. Description: Lewis attended the most important councils with Wisconsin tribes and painted these portraits of many of their leaders. When he returned to Philadelphia, he made lithographs from his paintings and published a small number of them monthly in 1835 and 1836. 1835‐1836.