what was lost, now is found: using digital repositories to rebuild what hurricane rita destroyed
DESCRIPTION
This presentation focuses on the discovery, collection, and dissemination of rare or historical government documents in a digital format using free online repositories such as Internet Archive, Google Books, Project Gutenberg, or the Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects in the context of replenishing a depository affected by a natural disaster. Negative and positive aspects of these tools will be examined, as well as a discussion on how depositories can promote and disseminate digital government documents to patrons and the community at large. Presented by Rebecca Blakeley at the 2008 DLC Conference.TRANSCRIPT
What Was Lost, Now Is Found:What Was Lost, Now Is Found:
Using Digital Repositories Using Digital Repositories to Rebuild What Hurricane Rita Destroyedto Rebuild What Hurricane Rita Destroyed
Rebecca BlakeleyRebecca BlakeleyMcNeese State UniversityMcNeese State University
Hurricane RitaHurricane Rita
Damaged Library Roof - 4Damaged Library Roof - 4thth Floor Floor
The solution…The solution…
Nothing beats reading the print…Nothing beats reading the print…
Digital gov docs
Digital gov docs have their have their benefits too…
benefits too…
Google Books “Gov Doc Library”Google Books “Gov Doc Library”
RSS Feed AlertRSS Feed Alert
Quality is less than perfect…Quality is less than perfect…
Searching for Federal DocsSearching for Federal Docs
Searching for State DocsSearching for State Docs
Internet Archive: www.archive.orgInternet Archive: www.archive.org
Advanced SearchAdvanced Search
American Libraries CollectionAmerican Libraries Collection
Government Documents CollectionGovernment Documents Collection
Ctrl + F to browse for a state or topicCtrl + F to browse for a state or topic
Internet Archive “Bookmarks”Internet Archive “Bookmarks”
Modifying the RecordModifying the Record
The Completed Record!The Completed Record!
Don’t have the record in your OPAC? Don’t have the record in your OPAC? Just retrieve it from OCLC and modify Just retrieve it from OCLC and modify accordingly.accordingly.
Why go through all this effort?Why go through all this effort? Documents to the People = Happy PatronsDocuments to the People = Happy Patrons
Well, this is all just great but what about standards?
Are these online digital repositories following digitization standards?
Um, yeah… about those standards….
digitizationguidelines.govdigitizationguidelines.gov
Let’s come up with solutions…
And bring ALL types of government documents to the people!