Review: Conserving for the Future by Archiving our Past

Review: Conserving for the Future by Archiving our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection By Cybèle Werts Ideas cannot by definition become an object that actually smells like it was read long ago by a girl on a porch swing one late autumn evening. ~Cybele Werts In…

Online Collection Assignment Using OCLC’s Content dm

by Anissa Malady, Gina Storelli, Josh Roselle, Kimberly Hayden This assignment allowed us to get a hands on approach to creating a digitization project utilizing a professional commercial software system. This is the paper details the outcome. Online Collection Assignment Using OCLC Contentdm by Anissa Malady, Gina Storelli, Josh Roselle, Kimberly Hayden is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. LIBR 284-02, Scott,…

The San Francisco Public Library Historical Photograph Collection

Free and Equal Access The San Francisco Public Libraries Historical Photograph Collection, is a true highlight of the Library. Located on the 6th floor, the collection consists of mainly photographs, but also holds works on paper, dating from 1850 to the present. The collection is housed and ran by the knowledgeable staff at the San…

Chrome Experiments: Not your mother’s JavaScript.

The purpose of this essay is to simulate an acquisitions proposal. I have chosen the Chrome Experiments as a possible project for inclusion in a digital library or archive setting. The proposal examines the many Chrome Experiments with focus on “The Wilderness Downtown,” an interactive artistic music video created using recent technologies such as HTML5….