[Web4lib] Digital Libraries needing volunteers

[Ross Singer]

Well, while in general I would agree with this, there are some that
aren't strictly tied to any one organization, like arxiv.org (loosely
administered by Cornell) and CiteSeer (Penn State) -- arxiv could
probably handle a volunteer or two.

Even easier (since it would be "less entrenched"), and potentially
more rewarding, would be to go to the nearest, worst funded, public
library and offer to create a digital library from their photo
collection or local history collection using something simple and easy
to maintain like Omeka, Greenstone or Scriblio and show the library
staff how to continue to contribute to it after the practicum is over.

-Ross.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Cary Gordon <listuser at chillco.com> wrote:
> I would venture to guess that most digital libraries are part of other
> institutions. I would suggest looking at the mailing lists and forums
> for the top digital library software including Dspace, Fedora,
> Greenstone and ContentDM.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cary
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Kristen Shea <khollyshea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   Hello all,
>>      I hope this question is allowed. If not, I greatly apologize.
>>      I was wondering if anyone happens to know of any digital libraries
>> that needs volunteers. I have a friend who is currently getting his MLIS in
>> North Carolina but he is taking a course on digital libraries this semester.
>> As part of his course, he needs to work on a digital library. He was
>> wondering if there were others out there that he could help (besides the
>> ones on his campus). I could only come up with "Project Gutenberg" and even
>> then, there wasn't a whole lot.
>>      If you could please let me know, I would greatly appreciate it.
>>                      Kristen
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