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GODORTupdateMW2008

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GODORT Update

ALA Midwinter 2008

Saturday, January 12, 2008

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

 

"Libraries in the Digital Age"

 

I. "The Wave of the Future that Covers the Past"

speaker: Kathleen Hale, Program Advisor for the State Library of Pennsylvania

-- using ContentDM to host their digital content ("Access PA (Pennsylvania)")

-- primary material related to Pennsylvania history (Franklin, etc.)

-- purpose of project: primarily access, but also preservation (flip of A-Z purpose)

-- contains photographs as well as more traditional documents

-- one of the most complete Penn newspaper collections--hope to collaborate (see below)

-- collaborating with Penn State

-- http://padl.pitt.edu

 

II. "Intergovernmental Organization Search Engine (IGOs)"

speaker: David Oldenkamp, Intern'l Studies, Indiana University

 

-- customizing search engines

-- using non-hyperlinked bibliographies to create these IGOs

-- typical web search = general NGO info and irrelevant info mixed in with IGO

-- work with GODORT co-op (up to 5,000 URLs for free)

--- can use "*" to truncate and get more URLs from top-level URL

-- swiki limits you to about 100 URLs; it ranks them

--- creates tag clouds

-- PSS; not really a search engine, finicky

-- LISZEN: search engine of all sorts of things library-related (750 library blogs, etc.)

-- where does David see this going?

--- maybe not class-level, but definitely for a department or program, subject-specific

-- we can create the reference tools that we love

-- current projects: NGO search engine (with James Jacbos)

-- the info on it is on the GODORT wiki

 

III. "What's New at LC -- from American Memory to World Digital Library"

speaker: Marilyn K. Parr, Head of Digital Reference at Library of Congress

(including changes to the new THOMAS interface)

 

-- her department answers questions about the digital collections

-- the Copyright Royalty Board -- the spot for digital rights

-- THOMAS has a beta test site

--- more formatting: republicans in italics, dems in normal text

--- extended remarks / where your member of congress was, if absent during a vote

--- legislative histories for treaties

-- you can now submit copyright deposits online

-- you can track the progress of your application online

-- Copyright Office will digitize all their pre-1978 records

-- World Digital Library

--- multiple languages (UN + Portugese)

--- primary documents

--- UNESCO sponsorship and partners

-- Research Guides and Databases

-- American Memory

--- congressional documents in: A Century of Lawmaking (collection)

--- WPA collections (including posters)

--- personal interviews; slave narratives

--- journals of the Continental Congress (part of Century of Lawmaking)

---- originally unpublished

--- letters of the delegates (ditto above)

--- Thomas Jefferson's autobiography

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