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Best Practices and Planning for Digitization Projects

The success of a project is generally in proportion to the time spent in planning the project. To help you avoid some of the pitfalls here are some recommendations and resources for planning a digital...

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Book repair videos

Three short videos on book repair

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Collection Development for Digital Libraries

Use this checklist to guide your digital library collection development efforts.

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Collection Development Resources Online

Here's a starter list of resources to help you sift through the flood of collection possibilities.

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Competencies for Preservation

Preservation covers a wide range of activities: repairing the physical damage to well-used materials; transforming physical materials into digital format; or preserving the historic record or other...

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CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group?s Best Practices Guide, version 1.9

This document represents the efforts to develop best practices guidelines for providing metadata both useful to the local community and suitable for harvesting externally.

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Digitize--You Can Do It!

How the Hannibal (MO) Free Public Library made its unique history available to the town--and the world.

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Evaluating Your Technical Services Department

This checklist is a series of questions that will help identify the inefficiencies of your technical services processes and methods for streamlining them.

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Glossary of Scanning and Digital Imaging Terms

Alyce Scott helps explain some of the most common and confusing terms used in digitization projects.

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Illinois' State Wide Archival Technology Team (SWAT)

The Macomb Public Library District worked with the digital imaging staff of the Illinois State Library (ISL) to enhance the Illinois Digital Archive (IDA), a part of the Find-It! Illinois Web site...

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Making Digital Images Accessible to the Visually Impaired Through Audio Des

The Illinois Alive digital imaging project uses audio description to make the images accessible to people with visual impairments.

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Remembering the Houses of Western Springs: Digitizing and Providing Access

The Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs, Illinois worked with the local historical society and the Illinois State Library to improve access to local history.

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The Preservation of Glass Plate Negatives

This paper covers the history of glass plate negatives, the storage of glass plate negatives, handling techniques and common conservation concerns, reformatting of glass plate negatives and the use of...

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WebJunction's Focus on Digitization Projects

Lori Bell of the Alliance (IL) Library System and her colleagues guide you through the basics of library digitization projects.

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The World of Cataloging

Links to basic cataloging resources, discussions on cataloging, and the most recent developments.

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"You're Not a Real Fan!": What Libraries Can Offer Fandom

Fandom, enthusiasts surrounding a particular work or interest, is becoming increasingly popular. Members of fandom, as well as those researching this phenomenon, agree that it has a positive impact on...

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Gamer's Advisory 101: Breaking the Monopoly

The hobby board game market is booming. Everywhere news media outlets pronounce that board games are "making a comeback" or are "going through a golden age" or experiencing a "renaissance" or are "in...

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What Languages Do Public Library Collections Speak?

In May of 2014, Slate published a series of maps illustrating the languages other than English spoken in each of the fifty US states. In nearly every state, the most commonly spoken non-English...

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3 Ways Libraries Can Channel Understanding in Confusing Times

As individuals and communities react to conflict in the world, we're reminded of the ways in which libraries often serve as a sanctuary for those looking for physical or emotional safety. But...

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Advancing the National Digital Platform: New Report Available

A report summarizing the results of needs assessment and gap analysis of digitization activities in US public libraries and state library agencies is now available from OCLC Research. The 2016 surveys...

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Preserving and Conserving Archived Photographs: An Annotated Bibliography

I have a keen interest in photography and historic photographic preservation. Here is an annotated bibliography I put together earlier this year with sources some of you might find helpful.

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Unfolding History at Your Library

In our information-saturated and social-mediated world, we are all subject to some filtering of the news we receive. It's a challenge to get the full picture of things happening, especially complex...

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Seven Answers to Seven Weeding Questions

Deciding how to weed your library's collection can be daunting. Decisions about criteria and policies are important to address to provide guidance to weeders. Holly Hibner, Adult Services Coordinator,...

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Shelving with Dewey: Self-paced Course Updated

Invite new staff or volunteers to become a top-notch Dewey shelver. In the recently updated course, Shelving with Dewey, learners new to the Dewey Decimal Classification system learn the fundamentals...

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Best Practices and Planning for Digitization Projects

Alyce L. Scott, a lecturer with the School of Information at San Jose State University, explores the best practices and planning needed for digitization projects. The long term viability of digital...

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Weeding the Library Collection: Updated Self-Paced Course

Mention collection development and most librarians think of the selection of new materials for the library. Weeding - removing library materials from your collection - is an often forgotten, yet...

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Web Archiving for Public Libraries: Self-Paced Course

The fact that the news, events, celebrations and even disasters that take place in our local communities are by now almost solely documented online is itself no longer new information. For many years...

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Multicultural Picture Books: A Deeper Look at Your Collection

Do you feel it is important to have a diverse children’s collection, but don’t always know where to start? The Diverse BookFinder Collection Analysis Tool (CAT), funded by a grant from the Institute of...

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Rethink Use of Your Physical Space

This resource is part of the Toolkit for Creating Smart Spaces, a toolkit to help you re-envision your library’s place as a center of community learning. It might seem ideal to be able to build a whole...

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Conscious Child Family Book Discussion Kits on Racial Equity, Identity, and...

We learned about these fantastic book discussion kits in recent Ohio Library Council News and reached out to Caitlin Campbell, Children's Librarian, at the Oxford Lane Library in Ohio, to learn more...

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Working with Historical Collections during Contemporary Crisis

As archivist for the Indiana Historical Society, Maire Gurevitz’s role is twofold: unraveling the stories hidden in new and existing collections and helping researchers investigate their own mysteries....

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Impacts and Reflections: Digital Stewardship Training Initiative

A pressing concern for staff working in tribal archives, libraries, and museums (TALMs) is appropriately managing and preserving the unique and diverse cultural heritage materials—digital and...

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WebJunction Launches First Courses in Series on Digital Collections...

OCLC's WebJunction, in partnership with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, has launched the first two in a series of free online courses developed for staff at...

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Resources on Book Challenges and Intellectual Freedom

Across the United States, there are increased reports of book challenges from community members, which have led to very public and heated discussions. As public library leaders and staff consider how...

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Resources for Advancing IDEAs (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility):...

A new blog series shares resources and learning opportunities for library staff Advancing IDEAs (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility). Twice monthly, series editor Jay Weitz compiles a...

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Spice of Life! Adding Variety to a Library of Things

Libraries of Things have been growing in popularity in recent years, offering community members the opportunity to borrow items beyond the books and media most people associate with libraries....

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Connecting Libraries and People through the New WorldCat.org

Libraries have always been trusted spaces in our communities, and the events of the past several years have brought more attention to the important work they’re doing. News stories highlighted the...

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Expanding Collections with a Library of Things

The Library of Things model has grown in popularity and expanded on the types of items that libraries keep in their collections and check out to the community. We were pleased to host the webinar,...

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How to Get Your Collection from Awful to Awesome

Reap the benefits of a well-weeded collection! Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, co-authors of the popular blog Awful Library Books shared their holistic approach to collection management in the WebJunction...

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Adopt-a-Shelf Program Lets Students Create Book Displays

Libraries can offer safe, welcoming spaces for young people to access resources and programming, explore their interests, and connect with peers. And these benefits can be even more impactful when...

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Partner with Indie Authors to Share Diverse Stories

Despite efforts to increase representation in publishing, the industry remains predominantly white. Authors of color often face a range of challenges, including difficulty finding literary agents,...

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Learn Digital Collections Stewardship with On-Demand Courses

OCLC's WebJunction, in partnership with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, has created a series of free online courses developed for staff at tribal archives,...

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Explore the Digital Stewardship Lifecycle

WebJunction created the Digital Collections Stewardship course series to help staff at smaller public and tribal libraries, archives and museums understand and navigate the work of creating, sharing...

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Inclusive Collections for Supercharged Storytimes

Storytimes can be transformative for children, offering them the chance to imagine possible futures for themselves. This begins with the stories you include. Look around your community and consider...

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