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Buried Treasure: Digitizing a Hidden Library Collection
Miraida Morales Rutgers University School of Communication & Information [email protected] @MiraidaM on Twitter
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The project:to build a digital library of heraldry design
Rutgers University Princeton University Puerto Rico
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The man:Roberto Beascoechea Lota
b. 1915-d. 2004
1956: went to work at the newly formed Institute of Puerto Rican Culture as a historian and advisor
Eventually to become Director of the National Library of Puerto Rico
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The collectionUnprocessed
Organized in folders by municipality only
Handmade sketches, handwritten notes, bibliographies, correspondence, invitations to official unveilings, telegrams, drafts of heraldry description, glossaries of heraldic terms, official memoranda
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Sketch of flag of Vieques date: August 10, 1975signed by RBL
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Cataño, Sketches for coat of arms & flagdate: unknown
Cataño, studies for coat of armsdate: unknown
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The process
PlanningInventory
& Selection
Platform, metadata scheme
DigitizationUploading files
& metadata creation
Prototype & Digital Library
3 months
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SupportTools:
HP Scanjet N9120 Document Flatbed ScannerExternal Hard DriveGreenstone ManualOnline resources
Personnel:
2 librarians5 full-time staff members2 part-time staff members2 IT staff, shared
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ChallengesBudget: $0
Government holidays: 5 in July alone
AC system in the Library broke
No access to scanner or hard drive until last week in June
Government closures due to tropical storms
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The challenges
Tropical Storm IreneTropical Storm Emily
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The outcome
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/
Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/bge/index.htm
Heráldica Municipal http://icp-5.icp.gobierno.pr/greenstone/cgi-bin/library.cgi?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=herldica&l=en&w=utf-8
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Looking aheadGrant proposal to:
• Upgrade interface
• Develop better resource discovery
• Bilingual access points
• Grow the collection
• Provide guides to the collection for different users: teachers, students, artists, researchers, children, general public
• Develop & carry out a marketing strategy
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¡Gracias!
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Guide to Images & ReferencesBeascoechea Lota, R. (1975). Boceto a color de la bandera de Vieques. Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico.
Beaschoechea Lota, R. (n.d.) Bocetos lineales del escudo y la bandera de Cataño. Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico.
Beascoechea Lota, R. (n.d.) Bocetos lineales a mano para el diseño del escudo de Cataño. Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico.
Berkowitz, B. (2011, August 22). Analysis: Hurricane could boost insurance pricing. Reuters. Retrieved from http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/22/us-hurricane-insurance- idUKTRE77L6SE20110822
Defense Department. (2010). The Institute of Heraldry celebrates 50th anniversary. (Defense Dept. Doc. No. WLNR21832363). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
Gobierno de Puerto Rico. (2010). Escudo de Puerto Rico. Retrieved from http://www2.pr.gov/SobrePuertoRico/ SimbolosNacionales/ Pages/Escudo.aspx
Hammond, J. (2011, August 22). Day 234: UK and world weather report-hurricane Irene and tropical cyclone Harvey. BBC. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/23degrees/ 2011/08/day_234_uk_and_world_weather_r.html
Quiñones, E. (2011, April 18). Princeton University Bulletin. 100(8), 1.
Rutgers University. (2011, October 7). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_ University# Coat_of_arms
Scherer, R. (2011, August 2). Tropical storm Emily moves west in Caribbean. Will it hit US Coast? The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved from http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/ 2011/0802/Tropical-storm-Emily-moves-west-in-Caribbean.-Will-it-hit-US-coast
Torres. (1965, March 25). Junta de directores del Instituto Puertorriqueño de Cultura Hispánica. In El mundo, 2nd ed. Retrieved from http://bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ELM4068& CISOPTR= 426&CISOBOX=1&REC=14