HathiTrust Update

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

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

* Assessing collection

* Developing a management plan

* Putting basic policies in place

* Setting up an accessioning workflow


Using FITS to Identify File Formats and Extract Metadata
Tuesday, April 30, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Topics:

* Introduction to file formats and technical metadata

* Demo of the File Information Tool Set (FITS)

Black History Month Events Coming Up

Thu, Feb 14 @ 6 PM
Valentine’s Day Talent Show

Sat, Feb 16 @ 10 AM
Performance Poetry Workshop

Sat, Feb 16 @ 5:30 PM
Oratory Contest

Mon, Feb 18 @ 2 PM
Words from the Drum with Kunama Mtendaji

Mon, Feb 18 @ 6:30 PM
Words from the Drum with Kunama Mtendaji

Mon, Feb 18 @ 7 PM
Black Columbia in the Urban Renewal & Civil Rights Era

Tue, Feb 19 @ 2 PM
Quincy Troupe, Craft Talk on Writing Creative Nonfiction and Poetry

Tue, Feb 19 @ 7 PM
“Where Do We Go From Here?”–Panel Discussion

Tue, Feb 19 @ 7:30 PM
Quincy Troupe Reading

Wed, Feb 20 @ 10 AM
2013 Bone Marrow Registry Drive

Wed, Feb 20 @ 12:30 PM
Brown Bag

Wed, Feb 20 @ 12:30 PM
Redemption Songs: Politics, Nationalism and Creativity in Black World Music

Thu, Feb 21 @ 7 PM
Free Your Mind

Thu, Feb 21 @ 7 PM
Screening of Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

Thu, Feb 21 @ 7:30 PM
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin

Fri, Feb 22 @ 7:30 PM
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin

Sat, Feb 23 @ 10:30 AM
Hiding in Plain Sight: Symbolic Messages in Indigenous Art

Sat, Feb 23 @ 7:30 PM
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin

 

Director’s Calendar: February 18th-22nd, 2013

Notable meetings from the calendar of Jim Cogswell, Director of MU Libraries

Tuesday, February 19th
2:00-4:00 p.m. – CRL Budget and Finance Committee conference call, Ellis Library


Wednesday, February 20th

9:00 a.m. – Attend the MU Librarian and Archivist Council meeting, Ellis Library

12:30-1:30 p.m. – Redemption Song panel discussion, Ellis Library Colonnade


Thursday, February 21st

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon – Presentation and All Staff Open Meeting with RAIS Division Head Candidate Jeannette Pierce