Amigos Update

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Shannon Cary — No Comments ↓

AmigosNow, Feb. 21, 2012

Call for Volunteers: MU Libraries Salvage Team

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Shannon Cary — No Comments ↓

LMT has approved the restructuring of the MU Libraries Salvage Team. We are seeking MU Libraries Staff interested and able to serve as Salvage Team members. There are a limited number of positions to be filled and we are seeking individuals who can best perform the tasks related to the salvage and recovery of damaged library materials. If you would like to be considered for a place on the Salvage Team, please contact Michaelle Dorsey and express your interest.

Examples of Salvage Team Tasks

Ability to work for long periods of time in damp, potentially dirty, and sooty, conditions
Remove wet and damaged items from the area, clear aisle to allow free movement
Inventory and pack wet materials into boxes
Label and tape closed packed boxes
Load packed boxes onto book trucks and deliver to on-site freezer or loading dock
Load boxes into freezer or freezer truck
Empty dehumidifier reservoirs
Interleave the pages of a wet book with dry paper

HathiTrust Update

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Shannon Cary — No Comments ↓

Our January update was released on Friday, and, in addition to the regular updates on ingest, projects, working groups and new development, we’re pleased to report that the new bylaws have been approved by the HathiTrust partners.

Also, as our year begins, it’s worth checking in on the HathiTrust resources page – a growing list of user guides and “how to” created by HathiTrust partner libraries. If you have created resources about HathiTrust (including videos, library guides, etc.) that you’d like to share, please let us know (feedback@issues.hathitrust.org), and feel free to use and share those that are available.

Update: http://www.hathitrust.org/updates_january2013

Bylaws: http://www.hathitrust.org/documents/hathitrust-bylaws-201302.pdf

Resources page: http://www.hathitrust.org/resources

–Heather Christenson

on behalf of the HathiTrust Communications Working Group

Webinars on Digital Preservation

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Shannon Cary — No Comments ↓

The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries is hosting a series of webinars on Digital Preservation in April. You are invited to join colleagues in Ellis 4F51A to view them.

Preservation Planning and Overview of PREMIS for Beginners
Tuesday, April 2, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Topics:

* Formulating a digital preservation plan

* What to consider during planning and first steps for implementation

* Basic introduction to PREMIS, the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata

Forbearing the Digital Dark Age: Capturing Metadata for Digital Objects
Tuesday, April 9, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Topics:

* Metadata for digital photos, documents, audio-video, tabular data, and GIS data

* Categories of metadata, metadata standards, metadata capture strategies, and metadata software tools

Management of Incoming Born-Digital Special Collections
Tuesday, April 16, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Topics:

* Getting started with managing born-digital archives