Creating Customized Online Collections on a Shoestring outlines how libraries can digitize special collections and create online archives even with limited budgets. The presentation discusses off-site storage options, book scanning, digitizing fragile materials, leveraging public domain works, ensuring long-term digital preservation, building collections at the title level, and sharing content through APIs and partnerships to allow for customized collections across institutions. The talk encourages librarians to embrace their inner curator and provide new ways for patrons to browse, search, embed, and view digitized collections.

1. Creating Customized Online
Collections on a Shoestring, or…
Daisy Benson
Vermont Library Conference
May 21, 2013
Image by Joybot @ Flickr

2. Image Rainer N. @ Flickr

3. Off-site storage
Bailey/Howe Library

4. Large runs of old
materials

5. Speedy delivery service
Image Nancy Bercaw @ Library Dean’s List

6. Fragile & damaged

7. Image Winona Saleski for UVM Libraries@ Flickr
Book scanner

10. Much of what is in the public domain is from
1922 and earlier
Bondi Beach, 1922, State Library of New South Wales@ Flickr

12. Long term digital preservation and access
Bibliographic data of materials at the title level
Large subset of full view materials
Partners and shared data via APIs
Ability to create shared collections

13. There is a curator in all of us…

16. Browse or search a collection

17. One of many ways to view content

18. Embed collection search boxes elsewhere

19. Narratives of the Civil War
Travel guides and narratives
Etiquette manuals

20. Thanks!
Daisy.benson@uvm.edu