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Updates for January, 2014
Save the Date!! April 8, 2014
8th Annual Digital Commonwealth Conference Hogan Center at Holy Cross in Worcester
This one-day conference features keynote addresses from two nationally known speakers: Melissa Levine and Liz Bishoff
Melissa Levine is the Lead Copyright Officer from the University of Michigan Library. She will speak about current copyright issues.
Liz Bishoff, of the Bishoff Group, was previously the Executive Director of the Colorado Digitization Project. She will discuss statewide and regional digital collaborations and the need for sustainability planning.
Planned breakout session topics include audience engagement and crowdsourcing, conservation and digitization, online exhibits and lightning round presentations from Digital Commonwealth members. More details regarding sessions and pricing will be available in early February. Repository update The BPL has been busy working on adding OAI-PMH harvesting feeds from member sites to the new repository. In this latest blog post, read about the work being done and the anticipated completion dates: http://digitalcommonwealth.org/blog/?p=211. DPLA Plans Training Sessions The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is working with four content hubs, including Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and planning a series of training sessions for public librarians. The goal is to help public librarians modernize their skills in a digital age, and in turn, communicate their work and their locales to the world. Digital Commonwealth and its partner organization, the Boston Public Library, will be announcing more details soon about the three upcoming training sessions. Digital Commonwealth is delighted that Anna Fahey-Flynn, BPL’s Collaborative Library Services Manager, is helping to implement this exciting training program. Member Projects: Blog Post SeriesTwo recent blog posts add to our series about member digitization projects. Both of these happen to focus on the challenges of creating metadata: Lee Library Association’s Digitization ProjectIn a followup with Library Trustee Mary Philpott, she discusses her experiences using the admin interface of the new repository at the BPL to create metadata for Lee Library’s digital objects: http://digitalcommonwealth.org/blog/?p=199 The Accidental MetadatalystCara Marcus, Director of Library Services at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, also examines metadata creation in this blog post, only in this instance using the Excel spreadsheet template provided by the BPL: http://digitalcommonwealth.org/blog/?p=209 If you would like to highlight your institution and add your experiences to this ongoing series, please send details in an email to digitalcommonwealth@gmail.com DPLA offices located at the Boston Public Library In a recent blog post, Dan Cohen, Executive Director of the DPLA, describes the physical office space of the Digital Public Library of America within the Boston Public Library. Digital Commonwealth is glad to hear that its partner organization, the BPL, has been so welcoming to the DPLA! Check us out on FaceBook!! Regular topical entries featuring highlights from member collections!!  203 Likes!! We appreciate your support!! |
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