[Web4lib] Digital Libraries needing volunteers

[felicia cheney]

Speaking as a public library director, I think Ross's suggestion is
excellent.

If the student wasn't in North Carolina, I would gladly volunteer our
library.  In fact, just yesterday I came across a large document that I need
to digitize and I'm stymied because we don't have the equipment (yet).


Felicia Cheney
Edgartown Free Public Library
508 627-4221
www.edgartownlibrary.org


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Ross Singer <rossfsinger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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