Presentation for a LYRASIS/OCLC web seminar on "The Future of Collections

1. Once and Future
Digital Collections
at the University of Scranton
Kristen Yarmey
kristen.yarmey@scranton.edu

2. Content

3. www.scranton.edu/library/digitalcollections
Now:
• 15 CONTENTdm collections
– 13 University Archives
• 11 public
– 2 Special Collections
• Primarily digitized
• ̴̴700 GB of digital content

4. Future:
• Born digital
– University records
– Student publications
• Web archiving
– University web content
• In progress via Archive-It
– Social media
• Digital special collections

5. Staffing
and Workflow

6. Now:
• Digital Services Librarian
• Systems Specialist
• Brilliant student workers
• With help from:
– Archives and Special Collections
– Cataloging
– Library administration
– University Information Resources

7. Workflow

8. Future:
• Flexible, project-based staffing
• Full implementation of workflow
• Better project tracking
• More collaboration with other University
departments, community partners

9. Digitization and
Accession

10. Now:
• In house
– Photographs
– Documents
– Negatives
– Slides
• Outsourcing
– Bound volumes
– Oversized materials
– Web archiving

11. Future:
• Digitization by:
– Campus and community partners
– Faculty and other scholars
– Donors
– Citizen archivists
• Digital accession:
– Automated harvest
– Digital submission
– Boxes of old CDs/floppies 
• ASERL webinars

12. Description and
Access

13. Now:
• Customized schemas for
specific collection needs
• Based on Dublin Core
• OAI-PMH enabled
– Best practices guide
• Map to MARC using
WorldCat Digital Collection
Gateway
• Collection level
– Object level
• Page/image level

14. CONTENTdm
digitalservices.scranton.edu

15. Encore Harvester
encore.scranton.edu

16. PA Digital Library
padl.pitt.edu

17. WorldCat
www.worldcat.org

18. Google… kind of

19. Future:
• Automated harvesting
• User-submitted metadata and corrections
• Linked data!
• DPLA?
– 2-year pilot with Service and Content Hubs
– Metadata harvested from Hubs via OAI-PMH
– See draft DPLA metadata schema (RDF)
– Dataset available via API

20. Publication

21. Project Client

22. Landing Pages

23. Thumbnail view

24. Grid view

25. Website configuration tool

26. Custom pages

27. Future
• CONTENTdm feature requests
– Flipbook viewer
– Improved compound object searching
– Easier and more granular options for restricting
items within collections
– Move items between collections
• Contextualization and Visualization
– Viewshare?
– Omeka?
• Cross search web archives?

28. Maintenance and
Preservation

29. Now
• Workstation holds full resolution
repository
• Onsite backup to external drives
• Offsite backup via Jungle Disk to
Amazon S3
• CONTENTdm server in data center
holds access images and metadata
• Some materials also available on
Internet Archive
• Archive-It stores web archiving
data

30. Future
• More robust
preservation system
• Consortial or vendor
solutions?
• TRAC: Trusted
Repositories Audit and
Certification

31. Promotion and
Outreach

32. Postcards, Moo Cards,
and Digital Signage

33. Press Releases

34. Campus Displays

35. Scan-on-Demand

36. Class projects

37. Alumni and donor gifts

38. Limited Edition Moleskines 
www.scranton.edu/library/zanerbloser/store

39. Facebook Timeline
www.facebook.com/universityofscranton

40. Flickr Then & Now
www.flickr.com/photos/universityofscrantonlibrary

41. Mystery Photos
www.flickr.com/photos/universityofscrantonlibrary

42. Pinterest boards
pinterest.com/uofslibrary/

43. History Pin
www.historypin.com/channels/view/7195265/

44. Future
• Send us your Stories web form
• Mobile tour of campus
• Metadata games
• Multitouch table

45. Assessment

46. Download count: 5,600+

47. Google Analytics

48. Google Analytics

49. User feedback
“I just want to say thank you to the University for putting the yearbooks on
line. My father… graduated in 1940. I had not seen that photo in 30 years.”
“You have no idea how thrilled my sister and I are to see these images. My
father died when I was four so I never knew him.”
“My son… presented the pictures on a wall board that I recv’d at my
surprise 80th birthday party. My eight grandchildren were tasked with
finding ‘Pop-Pop.’ I appreciate all you have done in making the past
available for my family.”
“I’ve been wanting to access peer theses for years… it’s suddenly easy to do.”

50. User pins and posts

51. User generated content

52. Future
• More refined implementation and
frequent review of analytics
• Alerts for social media posts
• Articulate value of digital collections and
relation to University mission

53. Thank you!
Questions?
Kristen Yarmey
kristen.yarmey@scranton.edu