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Newspaper Digitization and Preservation at Illinois
In this Funding to Preservation: A Digital Content Life Cycle Series webinar, William Schlaack will detail newspaper digitization experiences and best practices at the University of Illinois. William will describe the selection, collation, quality control, and digital preservation elements to newspaper digitization. Special attention will be given to the work done as a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program.
William Schlaack is the Digital Reformatting Coordinator and Coordinator for Digital Preservation Services at the University of Illinois. He discovered his passion for preservation while working in archives during his senior year of college, leading him to attend the University of Illinois and graduate with an MSLIS in 2012. William now oversees large-scale digitization and reformatting projects, including working with the National Digital Newspaper Program, Internet Archive, and HathiTrust.This event is sponsored by the Professional Development Alliance, a group of library consortia dedicated to sharing learning opportunities across member libraries.
Digital POWRR: Digital Preservation 101
This session of the Funding to Preservation: A Digital Content Life Cycle Webinar Series is designed for smaller, under-resourced organizations who understand the need for digital preservation but are not sure how to begin creating daily workflows that incorporate accessioning, processing, and storing digital materials (both born-digital collections and files from digitization projects). The digital curation lifecycle will be viewed through a practical lens and the class will step through an end-to-end workflow for a hypothetical digital collection using simple, open-source digital preservation tools.
Jaime Schumacher is the Sr. Director of Scholarly Communications at Northern Illinois University Libraries. She delivers an active program of education, advocacy, support, and technical advancement to promote the effective sharing of and barrier-free access to scholarly resources. Her efforts include repository platform development and optimization, copyright and open licensing research, and instructional activities for faculty, students, and lifelong learners. Jaime is also the co-leader of Digital POWRR - a grant-funded, award-winning program that equips practitioners with the necessary skills for curating and preserving digital collections of significance. Jaime earned her BS in Computer Information Systems from Purdue University, her MLIS from the University of Illinois, and was a corporate systems consultant for Deloitte prior to her transition into the field of librarianship.This event is sponsored by the Professional Development Alliance, a group of library consortia dedicated to sharing learning opportunities across member libraries.
A Recipe for Special Collections: Using Cookbooks to Create More Inclusive Collections
Cookbooks are more than just collections of recipes. They are profound documents for cultural memory and identity. As part of the library’s Special Collections student engagement program at The Johns Hopkins University, cookbooks have proved to be the perfect seed to grow interest in using primary sources and to refresh collection development. Learn how a focus on cookery leads to more inclusive acquisitions and opportunities for student learning both in and of the classroom.
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Heidi Herr is the Librarian for English, Philosophy, the Writing Seminars, and the Student Engagement Librarian for Special Collections at the Johns Hopkins University. She creates programs and learning activities to engage students in conducting research with primary sources, including teaching courses on everything from the ephemera of the women’s suffrage movement to the development of the cookbook. She earned Master of Arts degrees in English and Library Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.This session is brought to you by the Professional Development Alliance - a group of library consortia committed to sharing learning opportunities across member libraries.