An Introduction to SQL for Librarians By Ruth Kitchen Tillman Why are Librarians Suited to SQL? Because querying information is what we do. You’ve thought “ok this is what I want, now where do I go to get it and […]
by the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is committed to building and sustaining collections for the use of students, faculty, visiting scholars, and the public. The UIUC Preservation Department reformats brittle and […]
by the University Library, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Best Practices for Creating Digital Collections, includes the following: 1.0 File Formats 2.0 Directory Structure and File Naming 3.0 Digital Imaging 4.0 Newspaper Digitization 5.0 Optical Character Recognition 6.0 PDF Creation […]
by the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign A collection of library binding guidelines and documentation developed by the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The main page is available at this URL: http://www.library.illinois.edu/prescons/services/bindery_prep/index.html#2 . Additional documentation […]
This is a complete list of all available rOpenSci packages. Packages are grouped by ones that acquire data, full-text of journal articles, altmetrics, data publication, focus on scalable and reproducibile computing, data visualization, data tools, image processing, taxonomy, HTTP tools, […]
by Alice Prael and Amy Wickner, University of Maryland Libraries Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at the University of Maryland Libraries have accepted born-digital content from donors for the past ten years and these donations have grown exponentially over the […]
by Carleton College “This procedure is designed to make a consistent and scaleable workflow to prepare digital files for long term preservation, description online and distribution online. ” The wiki also outlines and describes standards used. It includes information on the […]
If you’ll be attending ALA Annual in Orlando this week, the Library Workflow Exchange folks will be presenting at or making appearances in the following sessions. Come visit with us and let us know what we can do to help […]
by Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery, North Carolina State University Libraries Webinar hosted by ALCTS, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Mary 9, 2015 Have you ever asked “How can we make this process better” only […]
The UCLA Library Special Collections Digital Project Toolkit is designed to support a variety of digital projects that may occur in a special collections library, including collaborative digital humanities projects, boutique and large-scale digitization projects, and projects that include development […]