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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