My final project in LIS 5053: Information Users in the Knowledge Society involved the preparation of a detailed critique of the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) web site as an information resource and recommendations for improvement. By analyzing characteristics of the target audience and the web site’s application of information behavior models, cognitive and learning styles, design [...]
Posts Tagged ‘digital collections’
Assessment of the International Children’s Digital Library
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, children, cognitive styles, digital collections, information behavior, models, technology on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Farming in the Digital Age
Posted in digital collections, tagged digital collections, information, preservation, technology on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a digital collection for EveryMan: a place of preservation and dissemination of the images, stories and humor of rural farm life in Ohio. The digitial divide still exists, but the point of crossing over–where analog culture first embraces the digital–is a facinating place.
Pros and Cons of the Orphan Works Bill
Posted in digital collections, tagged archives, art, Copyright & Intellectual Property, digital collections, orphan works on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Cat is working on her Scientific Illustration degree at the University of California Extension in Santa Cruz, and she recently sent me a link about the Orphan Works Act of 2008 (H.R.5889), introduced April 24, 2008. According to the Illustrators’ Partnership of America (IPA), this Act defines the term orphan work to mean: “any [...]
Beginning the Collection
Posted in digital collections, tagged archives, Copyright & Intellectual Property, digital collections, technology on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I spent five and a half hours sifting through photographs with my mother and grandparents, selecting content and collecting metadata for my digital collection. I think I ended up with about 25 photographs taken by my grandfather or a deceased family member. I couldn’t believe how many albums and boxes of photographs my grandparents [...]
Collection Reflections
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Copyright & Intellectual Property, digital collections, genealogy, technology on October 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After further discussion with Doc Martens, I have more confidence in my digital collections project. My plan is to create a collection of photographs and sound recordings of my maternal relatives, along with a family tree going back to my great-great grandparents (if possible), to capture genealogical information and some of the oral history of [...]
Application Integration
Posted in digital collections, tagged cataloging, digital collections, librarian, library on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading the article “Digital Collection Management through the Library Catalog,” by Michaela Brenner for my Digital Collections class, I got to wondering if applications like NoveList could be integrated into a public library’s OPAC. Say a customer pulled up a record for a certain novel in the OPAC, and wanted to search for similar novels. [...]
Access Benefits with Digital Resources
Posted in digital collections, tagged Book Review & Discussion, digital collections, library, reader's advisory, technology on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In chapter 5 of Lesk’s Understanding Digital Libraries, Lesk mentions that in cataloging systems such as the Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress, each book can be placed in only one catagory “since the shelf location is determined by the class number” (p. 121). Even if a library has multiple copies of a book, [...]
Digital Ramblings
Posted in digital collections, tagged books, children, digital collections, librarian, technology on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Story Place is children’s collection I came across recently with some good resources for children and their parents. The Story Place pre-school library offers 15 subjects for children’s activities, each with an animated story, animated activity, take-home activity, suggested reading list and parent activity. This is a nice resource for parents and children’s librarians [...]
Preservation
Posted in digital collections, tagged archaeology, digital collections, preservation, technology on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In her article “Eternal Bits,” Mackenzie Smith discusses the ephemeral nature of digital formats, explaining, “In an era when the ability to read a document, watch a video, or run a simulation could depend on having a particular version of a program installed on a specific computer platform, the usable life span of a piece [...]
Collection Cultivation and Curation
Posted in digital collections, tagged access, archaeology, digital collections on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about what kind of digital collection I can develop for my class this semester. At first I thought I might try to develop a collection of story-time podcasts like the Denver Public Library–perhaps choose a theme and make recordings of myself reading several children’s stories within that theme. But the Denver Library [...]
Digital Collections
Posted in digital collections, tagged digital collections, grad school, information, library, media on September 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This represents my first post for my Digital Collections class, discussing examples of interesting digital collections. All posts for this class will be categorized under the term “digital collections.” ibiblio is a “collection of collections,” including art, history, literature, music, science, software, and cultural studies. Some collections within ibiblio are in non-English languages, such as Spanish [...]
KPM Symposium–Retrospective
Posted in Graduate Assistantship, tagged archives, digital collections, grad school, grants, knowledge management, SLIS, technology on August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Okay, so, more about the Knowledge & Project Management (KPM) Symposium. The panel discussion on Digital Libraries featured Anne Prestamo, Associate Dean for Collection and Technology Services at Oklahoma State University, and Gina Minks, Imaging & Preservation Service Manager for Amigos Library Services. Prestamo discussed the definition of “digital library,” and provided some examples of digital [...]
