Eastern New York)
ACRL Chapter
Newsletter
VOLUME 32, NUMBER 2
Fall 2008
Chapter Officers
President: Susan Zappen
Skidmore College
(518) 580-5521
szappen@skidmore.edu
Past President:
Francine M. Apollo
SUNY Cobleskill
(518) 234-5858
apollof@cobleskill.edu
Vice PresidentiPresident-Elect/
Program Chair: Suzanne Turner
University at Albany
(518) 442-3612
sturner@uamail.albany.edu
Secretary: Jane Kessler
University at Albany
(518) 442-3830
jkesster@uamail.albany.edu
Treasurer: Yu-Hui Chen
University at Albany
(518) 442-3586
ychen@uamail.albany.edu
Communications Chair:
Patricia Hults
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518) 276-8358
hultsp@rpi.edu
Government Relations Chair:
Bill Walker
Bard College
(845) 758-7729
wwalker@levy.org
Membership Chair:
Suzanne Preats
Syracuse University
(315) 443-4243,
smpreate@syr.edu
Archivist: Michelle Parry
SUNY Oswego
(B15) 312-3562
Mparry! @oswego.edu
Newsletter Editors:
Patricia Hults & Tammy Gobert
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518) 276-8358
hultsp@rpi.edu;
gobert@rpi.edu
GEM cylinder player, Belfer Audio
Cylinder Digitization Project, Syracuse
University
Letter from the President
Dear ENY/ACRL Members,
What an exciting summer! I’m not just
referring to the Olympics, but to the
activities of our organization. The An-
nual Conference held on May 19 at
Syracuse University was both informa-
tive and invigorating. The success of
this conference was due to the team
effort of the Program Planning and Lo-
cal Arrangements Committees. Each
committee member contributed in one
way or another. There was never a
shortage of ideas or eager volunteers!
The ENY/ACRL Board met on August 4
and welcomed new members: Suzanne
Turner, Vice President/President Elect
and Program Chair; Yu-Hui Chen,
Treasurer; and Bill Walker, Govern-
ment Relations Chair. Suzanne and the
Program Planning Committee met in
June to begin planning the Brown Bag
Lunches and the next conference. The
theme for the October lunches is
“Reinventing Library Service: Innova-
tions @ Your Library.” The Brown Bag
Lunches are a wonderful way to get
away from the library for a couple of
hours to meet and talk with colleagues
in your region. You can find registra-
tion information and more details on
the ENY/ACRL web site. And be sure to
reserve May 18, 2009 -- the date of our
next conference to be held at Hudson
Valley Community College.
In the not too distant future, Past
President Fran Apollo will be seeking
members to run for positions on the
ENY/ACRL Board. Please consider her
request. Also remember that the Com-
munications, Membership, Government
Relations, and Program Planning Com-
mittees always welcome new members.
If you are new to the profession, you
will discover that ENY/ACRL is a way
to become professionally active and it’s
Susan Zappen, ENY/ACRL President
a great place to network. If you are a sea-
soned librarian, you have the opportunity
to contribute back to the profession, to
mentor, and to add to your knowledge and
experience. My participation in ENY/ACRL
has convinced me that there is nothing a
group of librarians can not accomplish to-
gether! Get involved and discover that for
yourself!
On a personal note, Jim and I celebrated
our 40th wedding anniversary in June with
a trip to Paris and visits to Giverny and
Strasbourg. The flowers in Monet's gardens
were in full bloom as were the flowers in
Strasbourg. The picture of me was taken in
Strasbourg. What a summer!
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News from the Editors. 7
Captured Moments (Bard)
Digital collections at Colgate
Development of Digital Coll. (Hamilton)..
Bringing Our Collections (Binghamton) .
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CDLC's Digitization Pilot Project.
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Call for Board Members
Dear Friends,
Tcan see the end of my three-year
service commitment from here.
Gosh the time has gone by
quickly. Please consider putting
your name forward, or nominat-
ing a colleague for the 3 positions
open this year (2009): Secretary,
Communications Chair, and
Program Planning/Vice President.
It is exciting and satisfying work.
You may learn or polish a skill,
you'll get to meet more of our
regional colleagues, and you'll
have some fun traveling to ALA
(if you shoot for the stars and take
on the job of Program Chair).
So, this is the time. Think
seriously about stepping up to do
more for our wonderful organiza-
tion. Contact a colleague who has
the skills to do one of these jobs.
Reach, stretch, nudge, please...
know the talent is out there.
Contact anyone who is currently on
the Board or a Past President to
learn more about the
responsibilities directly.
The elections will take place in the
Spring 2009 semester; academic
years slip by, so act now. Call me,
friends, if you have any suggestions
or questions. You'll “hear” more
from me as we go through time.
For additional information about
the duties of the positions, see the
description in the ENY/ACRL
Officers' Handbook:
Secretary http://www.enyacrl.org/
officers_handbook.php#Secretary
Communications Chair http://
www.enyacrl.org/
officers_handbook.php#Treasurer
Francine M. Apollo
Past President
Reference and Instruction Librarian
SUNY Cobleskill
Program Planning/Vice President http://
www.enyacrl.org/
officers_handbook.php#VicePresident
ENY/ACRL Spring Conference, 2008
Susan Zappen
Associate College Librarian for
Collections
Lucy Scribner Library
Skidmore College
SPRING CONFERENCE 2008
NOTES
The Eastern New York ACRL
Chapter held its Spring
Conference, “OPAC: Dead, Alive
or Revived?” at Syracuse
University on May 19, 2008. R.
David Lankes, Director of the
Information Institute of Syracuse
University and Associate
Professor in Syracuse University’s
School of Information Studies was
the Keynote Speaker. Lankes
energized and inspired conference
attendees with his presentation,
“Participatory Librarianship
and Radical Change Agents.”
He reminded his audience that
libraries are in the knowing and
thinking business not the books and
things business. Libraries need to
facilitate knowledge and
conversations of learning in our
communities. Catalogs are
inventory systems. They are not
dead, but they are not a social
process. Knowledge is about
connections and relationships not
about things. We need to ask
ourselves: “What is our library’s
vision of the future and where does
it come from? How will this help
people learn stuff? How will this
help people connect to stuff? What
are the signs of a good library?”
Lankes encouraged us to become
holistic, radical change agents. We
don’t know what will happen
tomorrow so we get to make it up!
“PennTags: Applications for
Social Bookmarking in an
Academic Library” was
presented by Laurie Allen, Chair
of the Penn Tags Development
Team at the University of
Pennsylvania and Social Sciences
Data Services Librarian at the Van
Pelt Library. PennTags, a social
bookmarking tool developed by a
team of University of Pennsylvania
librarians and information
technology staff, was inspired by
the del.icio.us social bookmarking
web site and a Penn professor’s
desire to facilitate an annotated
bibliography project for his
students. PennTags allows
members of the Penn academic
community to annotate library
Continued on page 15
OPAC: Dead, Alive, or Revived?
VOLUME 32, NUMBER 2
ENY/ACRL Newsletter
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Captured Moments, History
Illuminated
Hudson River Valley Heritage partners with cultural institutions to create a
digital record of life in the Hudson Valley
Helene Tieger
Reference Librarian /College Archivist
Stevenson Library
Bard College
A few years ago, pregnant with my
third child, the usually infectious
enthusiasm of my Director did little
to reassure me as I considered the
task ahead. I was going to under-
take a digital project for the Ar-
chives at Bard College.
“It will be so cool!” he said. “We'll be
able put up all kinds of photo-
graphs—campus architecture,
people, events. We have thousands
of photographs taken over the
decades... this will be a great way to
tell the story of the college. This is
already what we do, we can just
reach more people!”
I sighed with a mixture of resigna-
tion, exhaustion, and exasperation
(particularly at his liberal use of the
pronoun “we”). Of course he was
right, but embracing what would be,
for me, a steep learning curve was
about as welcome as the leg cramps
that then nightly accompanied my
physical condition. Still, it was
certainly time to move forward, and
I knew I would have lots of help.
Beginning in October 2005 and
continuing through March of 2007,
Southeastern New York Library
Resources Council (SENYLRC),
offered a series of grant sponsored,
full day workshops intended to train
new contributors to SENYLRC’s
existing digital initiative, Hudson
River Valley Heritage (HRVH).
Essential topics included, among
others: management of digital
projects, copyright issues, scanning
and Photoshop techniques,
instruction in the use of
CONTENTdm software, and
metadata for digitization and
preservation (HRVH metadata
elements are based on the Dublin
Core Metadata initiative). During
this period, I learned enough to add
a few dozen items to HRVH, includ-
ing photographs and manuscript
letters from our Bard Family Papers
collection. Just as importantly, I
built relationships with other par-
Former students Esther Norden and
Liz Spar strike a pose for student pho-
tographer Peter Aaron. Late 1960s.
ticipants and SENYLRC staff
that have sustained our
involvement with the project.
The staff at SENYLRC has now
condensed the program into four
full day sessions offered twice
each year as a prerequisite for
institutions to join and contrib-
ute to Hudson River Valley
Heritage.
Tessa Killian, Manager of
Technology and Administrative
Services at SENYLRC, can help
any institution get started, and
Continued on page 16
News from the Editors
Tammy Gobert and Pat Hults
Rensselaer Research Libraries
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
We are very excited about this fall's
theme issue focused on digital
projects. The response was
enthusiastic and the articles should
prove helpful and enlightening.
We'd like to build on the special
theme idea for the next issue.
Call for Articles
The theme of our next newsletter
will be “The Library as Place.” We
are soliciting articles that address a
variety of interrelated topics, such
as building renovation or
construction, interior redesign and
decor, creating an information
commons, and any other topics that
address this theme. The deadline
for submission will be Feb. 1, 2009.
Please contact Pat Hults
hultsp@rpi.edu if you are interested
in contributing an article.
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Tammy Gobert and Pat Hults, Editors,
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Digital Collections at the Colgate University Libraries
Francesca Livermore
Catalog/Metadata/Web Librarian
Case Library
Colgate University
‘The Colgate University Libraries selected the hosted
version of CONTENTdm in late 2007 with the
intention of creating some pilot digital projects in
support of the curricular and research needs of our
patrons. We decided on the hosted version as we
wanted to concentrate on collection building and not
spend time administering the product or server. As of
June 2008, we've created two collections of still images.
Our first collection was the Andrew J. Russell
Photographs, fifty eight albumen prints taken during
the American Civil War. Russell was enlisted in the
Union Army in the Quartermasters Corps. His images
document the supply machinery necessary to support
the war in the field. The prints in this collection have
been used for many years in a history class taught on
the war. The digital collection went live in early
February 2008. We look forward to watching how the
instructor and students utilize the digital images in
class this fall.
This spring saw heightened awareness on campus
regarding Burma with the announcement that the
university would award an honorary degree (in
absentia) to Aung San Suu Kyi at the 2008
Commencement. Photographer P. Klier took the 94
albumen prints in our second collection, A Burma
Album. The images showcase a different world,
buildings, people, places as they were in the Burma of
the late 1800s. The images give us a glimpse at the
beauty and majesty of that world.
For both collections we started by creating a master
TIFF (scanned at 600 ppi on a flatbed Epson Perfection
V750 Pro scanner). These files are stored on a network
drive with an archived copy on an external hard drive.
We then used Adobe Photoshop CS3 to derive web
accessible JPEG files from the TIFFs. Although
CONTENTdm does offer an option of automatically
deriving JPEGs from the master files, this process
gives us more control over our output. We are in the
process of developing a macro that will automate the
creation of our derivative files for future collections.
We built our metadata using fields from the Dublin
Core qualified set, and adhering to AACR2 conventions
as much as possible, in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Names were matched to authorities in Library of
Congress or the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
when possible, and we added subject headings from
An elephant hard at work in a Maulmain timber yard from
the Burma Album collection.
the Library of Congress Subject Headings and the
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (which comes
packaged with CONTENTdm). The Excel spreadsheet
was converted to a comma delineated file and batch
loaded into the client-side Acquisition Station module.
We verified everything there and then uploaded the
metadata with associated images to the CONTENTdm
server. Once on the server, metadata and images got
final approval and indexing from CONTENTdm
Administration, a web-based interface. The two-step
process allowed multiple people to work on a collection
simultaneously at their own machines, with final
approval and indexing happening asynchronously by
the Metadata Librarian or project leader.
We are continuing to explore the possibilities in
CONTENTdm and how we can use it to its full
potential and integrate the collections we build within
it to our overall collections. We are working with an
‘Connect » Discover » Create
Splash page for Colgate University Digital Library Collections.
Continued on page 17
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Development of Digital Collections at Hamilton
Peter MacDonald
Library Information Systems Specialist
Hamilton College Library
During my interview for a systems position at the
Hamilton College Library in 2001, the director told me
he was interested in starting a digital collection of rare
materials held by the library. For the first project, he
suggested a collection of Civil War enlistment forms
and handwritten Civil War letters. He apparently
didn’t see my eyes rolling at the thought of violating a
widely accepted best practice for new digital collections
projects: “start simple.” Most lists of best practices
suggest that one start a digital collection by scanning a
small collection of photographs. Instead, our first
project would be to digitize, catalog, transcribe, encode,
index and display digital objects -- some consisting of
multiple image files with accompanying TEI/XML-
encoded text files. Wisely, the director had already
decided to outsource the digitization, transcription,
and encoding (1).
This incident illustrates one of the best practices of
digital collections development that we have adopted
here: “don’t let best practices limit your options.” Now,
please don’t get me wrong. You really must become
familiar with the wealth of information in print and
online regarding best practices for developing sound
and sustainable digital collections (see Stephen
ct ’s book Techniques for Creating
Digital Collections and the Colorado Digitization
Program’s web page “Best Practices & Publications”).
But no matter how much you know about best prac-
tices, there are circumstances in which the recom-
mended best practice will not be best for you. Let me
illustrate this principle with another example from our
experience here at Hamilton College.
i
It is often considered best practice to scan materials at
high resolution, say, at 600 dpi, save the scans to files
in the TIFF format, burn these files to optical discs
and store them off site in order to ensure that high
quality master versions are always available. This
sounds reasonable, but if you follow these recommen-
dations you may end up with some serious storage and
file management problems. Optical discs are not
reliable in the long-run, and it is hard to know when
the data on them is at risk. Creating replacement discs
is time consuming and itself prone to error. Moreover,
you may someday need to rename files that are on
optical media in order to keep them in syne with any
derivative files that may have had their names
changed during the workflow process (2). If you do,
you will have to copy them from the disc onto a spin-
ning disk, rename them and burn them to disc again.
ms
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Gitat ate “
Letter written by Giles [Phiney?] from Camp at Laurel to his
father on January 28, [1861 or 1862].
To minimize problems like these, we now convert the
TIFF master files to the JPEG2000 format (3), which
results in files of high-quality but much smaller size.
We burn copies of these JPEG2000 files along with any
accompanying text files to DVDs (making two copies on
media from different manufacturers, we prefer Taiyo
Yuden™ and Verbatim™) for off-line/off-site storage —
eventually we will delete the original TIFF files. We
have found that these JPEG2000 files can be as much
as twenty-five times smaller than the TIFF files they
replace, even using a conservative compression ratio of
10:1. Consequently, burning the masters to discs is
much less time-consuming now. Renaming the files on
the disc will still require burning new discs, of course,
but the process will proceed much faster and thus be
Continued on page 18
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VOLUME 32, NUMBER 2
Bringing Our Collections to the World
CONTENTdm and the Edwin A. Link, Jr., Digital Archives at Binghamton University
John M. Meador, Jr., Director of Libraries
Jean L. Root Green, Head of Special Collections, Preservation
and University Archives
Binghamton University Libraries
Binghamton University
Binghamton University Libraries’ Director of Librar-
ies, John M. Meador, Jr., believes that one measure of
a library’s uniqueness is its collection of rare books,
archives and manuscripts. To expand the reach of
Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections,
the Libraries recently purchased OCLC’s CON-
TENTdm Digital Collection Management Software.
This software handles all media types and allows us to
easily handle thousands of digital images. While we
are currently uploading photographic images, we will
also be uploading materials such as text, ephemera,
and sound in the future. Marcy Strong, Catalogue Li-
brarian, has been inputting the standardized descrip-
tive metadata that will allow patrons from around the
world to easily search and retrieve the information
they need.
The first project using CONTENTdm is the Edwin A.
Link, Jr., Digital Archives, located at
http://library.lib.bing! n.ed ial/linkhome.htm
1. The digital archives currently consist of more than
300 photographs from the Link collections, including
images of the local inventor, industrialist and pioneer,
and photographs depicting aviation simulation, under-
water archaeology and ocean engineering. Binghamton
University Libraries’ Digital Archive will be expanded
in the future to include materials from other collections
in Special Collections.
The Edwin A. Link, Jr., Digital Archives project has
truly been a collaborative team project bringing to-
gether members from many different departments in
the Glenn G. Bartle Library with wide and varied ex-
pertise. Thanks to intensive collaborative work by Jean
Green, Aynur DeRouen, Beth Kilmarx, Michal Figura,
Marcy Strong and Mien Wong, a growing number of
digitized Link materials are being stored and made
available within OCLC’s CONTENTdm. This exciting
digital initiative was shared with members of the Link
Board on June 6, 2008.
Edwin A. Link (far right) lent a helping hand to Charles A. Lindbergh (second from left) in 1928 when Lindbergh and Major Tom Lam-
phier, both flying Curtis (sic) P-1 pursuit planes, were forced down in Choconut, PA, by bad weather and had engine trouble. Link and
pilot Richard Bennett (third from left) flew to Choconut with spare parts for the downed planes. Lindbergh and Lamphier stayed over-
night with Father Walsh (left). Edwin A. Link Collection, Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives,
Binghamton University.
Digitizing at Dutchess
Tina A. Kiernan
Electronic Resources and Digital Initiatives
Dutchess Community College
Given that Dutchess Community College (DCC) cele-
brated its 50th anniversary this year, two li of
the Francis U. and Mary F. Ritz Library embarked on
an online digitization project as part of this momen-
tous occasion. So far, we have posted over 150 photos
and documents detailing the history of the community
college in Dutchess County, NY. Hundreds, perhaps
thousands of archived photographs still require scan-
ning and uploading to CONTENTdm, the digital
management software system that we are using.
Working in collaboration with Southeastern New York
Library Resources Council (SENYLRO), DCC is one of
many organizations contributing to the Hudson River
Valley Heritage (HRVH) project. The goal of HRVH is
to create an online, digital repository of the history of
the Hudson River Valley region. The project spans
seven counties in New York and has local libraries,
historical societies, colleges and organizations collec-
tively contributing to HRVH resources. These may be
viewed at http://www.hrvh.org.
Because our digital collection is a collaborative effort,
the implementation has gone smoothly. Before posting
any photos online, prospective contributors are re-
quired to attend four workshops offered by SENYLRC:
Management Essentials and Copyright Issues, Intro-
duction to Scanning, Metadata for Digital Projects,
and Develop and Manage Digital Collections using
CONTENTdm. he staff at Southeastern is extremely
accessible and is willing to help with whatever ques-
tions or issues that you encounter. The staff at
SENYLRC makes a site visit to load the CONTENTdm
software and also to go over scanning techniques
which reinforce what has been learned in the work-
shop. SENYLRC maintains the server on which your
digital collection is stored. At Dutchess, we have been
using an Epson Perfection 4490 scanner and Adobe
Photoshop CS3 to make photos digitally ready for up-
loading to the HRVH website. Luckily we have not
encountered any problems, even working with com-
pound documents. SENYLRC extensively covers how
to create metadata and which fields certain types of
information should be placed in. The trickiest part of
the process is changing data once the images have
been uploaded to HRVH — you need to either bring
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Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt with International Relations
Club officers at Dutchess Community College, 1959.
them back into the acquisition station or change them
online, but you MUST remember to re-index your col-
lection. Follow the outlined steps, and it’s all a pretty
simple process.
Presently our contributions range from photographs of
the original land and buildings of the Bowne Tubercu-
losis Hospital in the late 1950s to images of Eleanor
Roosevelt speaking at Dutchess Community College to
dance tickets, brochures, and scenes from formal
dances, classrooms, registrations, building dedications,
convocations and commencements. The Dutchess col-
lection can be found at http://www.hrvh.org/collections/
inst-intro.htm?inst=29. Take a look! If you have any
questions, please contact Tina Kiernan at 845-431-
8637 or tina.kiernan@sunydutchess.edu.
Links to Collections Featured in the Newsletter
Bard: http:/Avww-.hrvh
ites aera bandledulanehive
Binghamton:
t-intro.htm?inst=1
http://library.lib.bingt d ial/li html
Colgate: http://diglib.colgate.edw/
Dutchess:
http://www.hrvh i intro.htm?inst=29
Hamilton: http://elib.hamilton.edu/
Rensselaer: http:/Mlibrary.rpi.edu/
Syracuse: http://digilib.syr.edu/
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Capital District Library Council’s Digitization Pilot Project
By Susan D'Entremont
Regional Archivist
Capital District Library Council
The Capital District Library Council’s (CDLC) Digiti-
zation Pilot Project is only a year old, so we are discov-
ering new things every day. If we were to write this
article a year from now, it might have very different
content indeed!
Before embarking on this project, CDLC worked with a
consultant, Jill Hurst-Wahl, to develop a digitization
plan. Jill's work indicated that many libraries in the
area were very interested in digitization, but had not
started projects on their own for various reasons, in-
cluding lack of confidence in their skills and few finan-
cial r to devote to digitization. The plan also
noted that libraries in the region look toward CDLC
for leadership and training in new technologies.
So we had our mandate, even though no one on our
staff had any experience with digitization. We worked
to remedy this through workshops and research, which
has served us well as the project has progressed. If
there is just one piece of advice we could give anyone
thinking of starting a digitization project, it would be
to take the time and money to attend a workshop that
provides an overview of the digitization process, from
selecting material to be digitized to getting the mate-
rial on the web in a usable format. It will help you
know what you are getting yourself into before you
begin, and you will be less likely to have to redo your
work later.
We decided that our project would take the decentral-
ized approach to digitization. CDLC provides training
and guidance, software, a server, and, eventually, de-
sign and maintenance of the web site where the digi-
tized images will be made available to the public. The
participants are responsible for choosing the material
to be digitized, scanning the material, and creating the
metadata. Although this approach results in less stan-
dardization in the final product than a centralized ap-
proach, we chose it for a number of reasons. We have
a very limited staff and budget and could not accom-
modate a lot of additional work. Also, increasing the
digitization expertise among the region’s library staff
is just as important to us, if not more so, than having a
pristine product available to the public.
CDLC chose CONTENTdm, an OCLC product, as our
Digital Asset Management System. Although pricey,
the CONTENTdm license allows us to have up to 50
installations of the software, so for a cooperative pro-
ject it is actually quite cost-efficient. Also, since we
anticipated having participants from many different
kinds of libraries, we wanted a product that would be
relatively easy to use and that provides user support.
The jury is still out on whether the software is easy to
use. Ina recent survey of project participants re-
sponses to the software ranged from “CONTENTdm is
a great service. Easy to enter and edit data” to
“CONTENTdm is counter-intuitive and difficult to
navigate.” We have also learned that although the ba-
sic software is easy to use, some of the best looking
CONTENTdm sites have gone through a fair amount of
customization. This requires a sophisticated and plen-
tiful IT staff, something we do not have at the moment.
The lesson from this may be that if you are looking for
software for a project at your institution, look beyond
r dations from other institutions. Think care-
fully about your project’s goals, the skill sets of those
who will be doing the work, and the amount of IT staff
you have.
CDLC selected eleven institutions from a pool of appli-
cants to participate in the first year of the project. Our
goal was to have a variety of types of institutions and
materials involved. We wanted to produce a set of
mentors from this first phase, and we also wanted to
learn as much as we could so we could better advise
institutions that would become involved in the future.
The initial participants include two academic libraries,
four large public libraries, two small public libraries,
and three special libraries. In addition, several other
institutions became involved through exciting coopera-
tive projects. For example, Bethlehem Public Library
partnered with the Bethlehem Historical Association.
The Historical Association provided the material to be
digitized and the library provided the staff and exper-
tise to do the work.
Our next step was to develop guidelines for the project.
Even though there are many excellent examples to
draw from, this was still very time-consuming. The
project's first field trainer, Dustin Wilder, worked hard
to determine what type of guidelines we needed and
then drafted them. Probably the most important (and
also the most problematic) document has been the
Metadata Guidelines. Thank goodness for the South-
eastern New York Library Resources Council
(SENYLRO), which allowed us to adopt their excellent
guidelines with revisions and adaptations to meet our
region’s needs. We are still discovering what those re-
visions and adaptations should be. It seems as though
every day our current field trainer, Ilka Morse, receives
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Rensselaer Digital Collections
By Katie Dunn
Technology & Metadata Librarian
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
‘The Rensselaer Libraries at R Polytechnic
Institute launched the Rensselaer Digital Collections
this fall, in collaboration with other units at Rensse-
laer. Our main aim for the Rensselaer Digital Collec-
tions is to improve access to materials of intellectual,
historic and cultural value to Rensselaer, encompass-
ing image, audio, video and text formats. Initial collec-
tions include student work (dissertations and theses,
final projects and studio work), technical reports au-
thored by Rensselaer faculty, architectural images,
and selected Rensselaer publications. The Rensselaer
Digital Collections are managed and delivered through
Ex Libris’s Digitool digital asset management soft-
ware.
Theses and dissertations form our largest collection.
Though the library still collects a hard copy of each
thesis, the Office of Graduate Education at Rensselaer
has required deposit of an electronic copy of graduat-
ing students’ Ph.D. theses since December 2006 and
Master’s theses since December 2007. Graduate stu-
dents submit their thesis through a suk form
Rendering of a design for a social science laboratory in
Cairo, Egypt from an architectural vertical studio pro-
ject. (Creator: Nick Axel)
approved, the library ingests the thesis into the reposi-
tory, verifies and regularizes the Dublin Core meta-
data, and adds the rights metadata. After we ingest a
batch of theses into the repository, we harvest their
metadata records using an OAI-PMH query. We use
MarcKdit (a freeware program by Terry Reese) to per-
form an XML conversion on the Dublin Core records to
create MARC records for our Innovative catalog.
created by the Digitol software. Students depositing
their theses can choose to apply traditional copyright,
with access restricted to on-campus users only, or a
Creative Commons license, which makes their work
viewable to anyone on the web. Regardless of the li-
cense chosen, a title page and abstract for each thesis
is available for anyone to view. The submission form
prompts students to enter bibliographic information
about their thesis, which creates an initial Dublin Core
metadata record for the document. Then, within the
Digitool system, the thesis is routed to the Office of
Graduate Education for approval. Once the thesis is
A digitized slide image of Ani Cathedral from the
‘Armenian Architecture collection.
Archi e students at R laer submit a culmi-
nating project as part of their degree requirements,
and also complete projects in their studio classes. Most
students choose to make their fifth year culminating
project available through Rensselaer Digital Collec-
tions. Architecture faculty members also select exem-
plary projects from their studio classes to add to the
Collections. Making these projects available on the
web not only helps architecture students gain exposure
for their work, but also aids the School of Architecture
in preparing background materials for ongoing accredi-
tation. Each architecture project is comprised of sev-
eral related files, which are ordered and labeled using
a METS metadata wrapper that is generated during
the ingest process. Architecture projects are assigned
subject terms from the Getty Art & Architecture The-
saurus.
The Rensselaer Digital Collections also hold a digitized
photo-archival collection of A ure,
gathered by Rensselaer’s late Professor V. Lawrence
Parsegian. Because Rensselaer holds the copyright to
these images, we have been able to make them accessi-
ble on the open web for research and educational use.
After scanning, the original TIFF files were converted
to JPEG 2000 using Photoshop. An internal JPEG
2000 viewer in Digitool allows zooming and panning of
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Syracuse University Library’s Belfer Audio Cylinder
Digitization Project
Melinda Dermody, Project Director, Head of Arts and
Humanities Services and Belfer Audio Archive
Suzanne Preate, Digital Projects Coordinator /Digital
Imaging Librarian
Carole Vidali, Music Librarian
Syracuse University Library
Syracuse University
About the Project
Cylinders are one of the earliest forms of sound re-
cordings, representing the period from 1877-1929.
Syracuse University Library's Belfer Archive houses
22,000 commercially-issued cylinders (including dupli-
cate takes/recordings), the largest collection of its kind
in North America.
In early Summer 2007, Syracuse University Library
received a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas
Foundation to digitize 6,000 cylinders from our collec:
tion. We combined Library funds and a gift donation to
purchase a new digital sound board as well as audio
software needed to perform the complex audio digitiz-
ing work. We were aware that several years ago the
University of California-Santa Barbara received a sub-
stantial Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS) grant to digitize their cylinder collection
(approximately 6,000 cylinders). In order to avoid du-
plication of effort, we have selected cylinders from our
collection that were not already digitized by UC-Santa
Barbara.
Since last summer, we have come a long way with our
cylinder digitizing project. In August, we moved from
the proof-of-concept phase to the beginning of produc-
Belfer Archeophone.
GEM cylinder player.
tion. We have digitized over 200 cylinders and in doing
so, have worked through the entire digitization and
metadata process. A summary of our progress toward
the project goals follows.
Work flow and process
We have fully established and implemented individual
responsibilities within the project. These responsibili-
ties range from cylinder selection to digitization to
metadata and catalog record creation to uploading the
digitized recordings and metadata records.
Digitizing
The Audio Engineer installed and learned the new ar-
ray of digital equipment and software including Pro
Tools LE and CEDAR. He utilizes a modern-day cylin-
der player called the Archeophone, specially made in
France for archival cylinder preservation and transfers.
The Arc to the soundboard which
feeds into the computer workstation housing the audio
editing software programs. Using these resources, the
Audio Engineer creates an archival master WAV file as
well as a “cleaned up” MP3 listening file.
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Binghamton University Library
Binghamton University Libraries renovated and
expanded our Information Commons adding more
computers, printers and scanners. A walk-up computer
bar, additional express printing workstations, and printer
islands to improve access to student printing are part of
the expansion.
Erin Rushton, Elizabeth Brown and Sarah Maximiek
created a virtual poster on the use of Meebo at
Binghamton University Libraries which was selected as
one of three winners by ALA RUSA Machine Assisted
Reference Association in June 2008.
Marcy Strong presented a poster session, “Cataloging
Screen Cast Tutorials in Dublin Core and MARC” at the
Online Visual Catalogers conference in Cleveland, Ohio,
in September 2008.
David Vose contributed a chapter entitled "Binghamton
Edward Corrado joined the Bing! Universit
Libraries in May 2008 as the Head of Library Technology.
Edward was previously Systems Librarian at the College
of New Jersey. He was recently elected to the Steering
Committee of Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA)
and will be giving a presentation on the use of RSS with
Aleph at the International Group of Ex Libris Users in
Madrid, Spain. He is co-editor of Code4Lib and gave a
presentation on the Code4Lib community of practice at
the International Society for Knowledge Organization in
Montreal, Quebee, in August 2008.
Sandy Card gave a number of presentations at the
ELUNA meeting in California this summer, one on
Implementing Aleph Version 18 Authority Control
Functionality and another on Global Changes in Aleph.
Sandy presented on authorities as part of a preconference
at the SUNYLA annual conference in June 2008.
Jill Dixon has assumed the position of Science Library
Coordinator.
Martha Kelehan presented "The Reading and Reception
of Marie Chauvet’s Amour, colére, et folie:
Contemporary Rare Book” at the Association of Caribbean
Women Writers and Authors (ACWWA) conference in
Grenada in May 2008.
Martha also presented "French Colonial Perspectives of
Indigenous Latin America from the William J. Haggerty
Collection of French Colonial History" at SALALM 2008
in New Orleans. She also organized a panel entitled:
"Indigenous Latin America in Special Collections:
Codices, Chronicles, and Contemporary Rare Books."
Alesia McManus presented “The Encore Experience:
Using a Third Party Discovery Tool with Aleph and
Voyager” with Tari Keller from the University of
Kentucky at the annual meeting of Ex Libris Users Group
of North America (ELUNA) on August 1, 2008.
Bern Mulligan, Kate Bouman, Susan Currie
(Associate Director of University Libraries), Sean
McKitrick (Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs), and
Sharon Fellows (Assistant Director of the Engineering
Design Division) wrote an article published in the July/
August 2008 College and Research Libraries News
entitled “Critical Research Practices at Binghamton
University: A Case Study in Collaboration.”
University Information Commons" in Transforming
Library Service Through Information Commons: Case
Studies for the Digital Age, edited by D. Russell Bailey
and Barbara G. Tierney (Chicago: American Library
Association, 2008).
Julie Wang was selected as a participant in the Institute
for Chinese Studies Librarianship held in Seattle,
Washington, and has been invited to visit China in
October 2008 as a member of the North American Chinese
Studies Librarians delegation.
Caryl Ward gave a presentation at the Nylink summit,
“Zen and the Art of Local Holdings Maintenance” in
Saratoga Springs, NY, in June 2008.
Colgate University
Debbie Krahmer has joined the library faculty at
Colgate University as the new Learning Commons
Librarian. Debbie received an MISLT at the University of
Missouri-Columbia. Previously, Debbie worked for four
years as an Assistant Professor and Digital Learning
Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Hamilton College
Carolyn Carpan is the new Director
of Public Services in the Burke Library
at Hamilton College. In her previous
position, Carolyn was a reference
librarian, Acting Head of Public
Services, and Associate Professor at
Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
She holds a MLS degree from
Dalhousie University in her hometown
of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She also has
an MA in Women’s Studies from the Memorial University
of Newfoundland. Carolyn is the author of several books,
including Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance
Fiction (Libraries Unlimited, 2004), Jane Yolen (Chelsea
House, 2005), and Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls’
Series Books in America (Scarecrow Press, 2008).
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Jefferson Community College
Library Director Inger Curth has retired and Connie
Holberg has accepted the position of director.
John Thomas was awarded the SUNY Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Librarianship.
Instruction Librarian. Amanda graduated from The
University at Albany with her MSIS in Spring 2006
and worked for both the NYS Archives and the
Department of Health Dickerman Library before
coming to Skidmore.
Ruth Copans, College Librarian, published "The
Business is Suffering: Maureen Cummins's
Subversive Signatures" in Bulletin du bibliophil
no.1, 2008.
Mount Saint Mary College
Denise A. Garofalo, formerly Library Director at the
Astor Home for Children in Rhinebeck, NY, is the new
Systems and Catalog Services Librarian at Mount Saint
Mary College in Newburgh, NY. Denise previously held
positions at the Mid-Hudson Library System, New
Hampshire State Library, Warwick (RI) Public Library,
Pawtucket (RI) Public Library, and the State University
of New York at Albany Libraries.
Jacqueline Ryan, Access Services Librarian, and
Vivian Milczarski, Collection Development and
Electronic Resources Librarian, have had their proposal
selected for inclusion in the forthcoming Library
Instruction Cookbook to be published by ACRL in summer
2009.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
A new version of the Rensselaer Libraries’ website,
h, http://library.rpi.edu. was released this
summer. Featuring a clean, fresh look, it is easy for both
experienced and novice users to navigate.
‘The Rensselaer Digital Collection http://
digitool.rpi.edu:8881/R/ was also made available to the
public. See "Rensselaer Digital Collections" on page 9.
Katie Dunn, Technology & Metadata Librarian, gave a
guest lecture on metadata to Hemalata lyer’s Information
& Knowledge Organization class at the University at
Albany last spring.
Skidmore College
Andy Krzystyniak has joined Lucy Scribner Library as
the new Science Librarian. Andy previously served as
Interlibrary Loan/Health Sciences Librarian at The Sage
Colleges. He holds an MLS and MA in History from the
University at Albany.
Social Sciences/Resource Services Librarian Elizabeth
Putnam and husband Michael welcomed son William
Phinneas (9 lbs, 6 0z.) on August 9th.
Amanda Lord has joined us temporarily as Reference!
SUNY Canton
Drew Urbanek has been appointed Circulation/
Public Service Librarian at SUNY Canton for a one
year term, to cover the leave of Doug Welch.
Southworth Library and SUNY Canton
Information Services have begun the transition to
a merged service location, starting with moving the
computer HelpDesk to the Library. Other IS units
will follow and the relocation project is expected to be
completed by January 2009.
SUNY College of Environmental Science and
Forestry
Jane Verostek, Associate Librarian, is expecting her
second daughter in mid September and will be on
maternity leave from September 2008-April 2009.
Kat Burtula, a recent graduate of SU’s School of
Information Studies and former Moon Library intern,
will be teaching a section of our Information Literacy
Class this fall in Jane’s absence. Kat also worked
with us this summer to complete an inventory of the
college archives housed in the Moon Library.
Ada Cornell, a graduate student at the SU School of
Information Studies, will be interning with the Moon
Library during the Fall 2008 semester. Her
responsibilities will include reference, instruction and
cataloging.
Linda Galloway presented a paper entitled
“Building a Bridge from the Research Office to the
Moon” at the annual meeting of the Special Libraries
Association in Seattle. Linda publishes The Research
Times biweekly for the ESF Research Office as part of
her librarian responsibilities. Linda is currently the
President-Elect of the Upstate New York Chapter of
the Special Libraries Association.
The Upstate New York Science Librarians will
have their annual meeting at the Moon Library on
Friday, October 17.
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SUNY Potsdam
Crumb Library now houses a poster printer purchased
with Student Government "SCAP" funds. Faculty must
arrange for their students to attend a poster development
workshop taught by Keith Compeau, and have their
students present their posters publicly, which may be
done in the library.
The libraries have offered on three occasions, a two day
faculty development workshop titled "Developing
Information Literate Graduates: Integrating Information
Literacy in Academic Programs" that was attended by
teams of faculty members from academic departments.
More than half of our departments have now sent a team
to the workshop. We will be offering it again in January
and May. The workshops are facilitated by Carol
Franck, our Information Literacy coordinator and by
Bethany Usher, Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Marianne Hebert gave a presentation "Two Faces of
Facebook" for SUNY Potsdam alumni, as part of the
Alumni Reunion Weekend, July 11, 2008.
In June 2008, Jenica Rogers-Urbanek presented two
sessions at SUNYLA's 2008 conference, "Collaborative
Collection Development: Not Just a Dream" with
Jennifer Smathers of SUNY Brockport, and "Servers
101 for Accidental Tech Librarians" with Matthew
Keller of SUNY Potsdam.
Jane Subramanian gave a guest lecture to the graduate
Information Processing class at the Department of
Information Studies, University at Albany in April 2008
and also gave a presentation titled "The Norwood Brass
Firemen's Strong Beat Since the 1870's" for the New York
Archives Conference Annual Conference held at SUNY
Potsdam in May 2008. She also was elected to the
MARAC (Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference)
Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee and was the
recipient of two awards, the New York Archives
Conference organization's award in recognition of
outstanding ional, dedicated, and service
to NYAC, and the SUNY Potsdam Alumni Association
2008 Distinguished Service Award.
During the past academic year, we have instituted
Student Consultants to the College Libraries as a regular
forum for conversations with students about library
services.
The libraries have administered a pilot information
literacy assessment tool the first week of fall classes in
more than 50 classes reaching over 1000 students.
Work is in progress to accomplish shifting portions of the
college libraries website to LibGuides, such as our subject
specific web pages.
FW. Crumb Library reopened for the start of the
academic year, after being closed for summer 2008 with
services being offered temporarily from the Sheard
Literacy Center and the Julia E. Crane Music Library.
Most of the new HVAC system of the library is up and
running; window replacement will continue for part of
Fall Semester.
Syracuse University
Syracuse University Library Restructure Effective
July 1
‘The University’s Master Plan for E.S. Bird Library calls
for the creation of a Learning Commons on the concourse,
first, and second floors, a Research Center on the third
floor, and dense stacks on the fourth and fifth floors.
Earlier this year, we began to create the Learning
Commons by implementing several physical and
functional changes on the first floor. The Learning
Commons will focus primarily on undergraduate services.
Access Services, Collections Maintenance, parts of Media,
and Professional Programs and General Reference will be
incorporated into the Learning Commons.
We are pleased to announce that Lesley Pease will be
the Director of the Learning Commons and Brandi
Porter the Associate Director. Rob Capuano will report
to Brandi and will supervise both Access Services and
Collection Maintenance. Lesley and Brandi will work
together with staff this summer and fall to create a new
organizational structure within the Learning Commons.
Some aspects of Media Services will move to the first floor
Learning Commons and other parts to the Research
Center.
‘The preservation and conservation departments will
become one unit with Peter Verheyen as the new
department head.
Marty Hanson will move to the position of Social
Sciences Bibliographer.
Melinda Dermody will assume interim supervision of
Social Sciences and Area Studies. She has also been
invested with primary responsibility for developing the
requirements for faculty services and the physical
environment of the Research Center on the third floor, per
the Master Plan.
Syracuse University Library receives major gift of
sound recordings
Syracuse University Library's Belfer Audio Laboratory
and Archive has received a major gift from the family of
the late Morton J. “Morty” Savada—the complete
inventory of his Manhattan record store, Records
Revisited, including more than 200,000 78-rpm records,
along with a related print collection of catalogs,
discographies and other materials. With the addition of
the Savada Collection, Belfer’s holdings now total more
than 400,000 78-rpm recordings—second in size only to
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the collections of the Library of Congress. [For the full
story: http://libweb.syr.edu/librarynews/
archives/001033.html and WSYR Channel 9 News video:
http://www. 9wsyr.com
videoid=242618@video.wixt. &
rey
WSTM Channel 3 News reporter Don Lark recently
interviewed Sean Quimby, Director of the Special
Collections Research Center (SCRO) about SCRC's
current presid bilia exhibit. The
story and video are located at http://wstm.com/news/
news_story.aspx? 181 9.
Sean Quimby has had an article entitled “Developing a
Tool to Manage Manuscript Collections at Syracuse
University" published in the Spring 2008 Manuscript
Repositories Newsletter of the Society of American
Archivists.
Tasha Cooper, [Biormnber for Social Sciences &
Inter h Wallace, Biology,
Huigiiéering & Computer Seiatiee’and Geosciences Subject
Specialist; and Nicolette Dobrowolski, SCRC Reference
and Access Services Librarian are the newly-elected
members representing the Library at the University
Senate. Adina Mulliken, Social Work, Marriage &
Family Therapy, Child & Family Studies and Aging
Subject Specialist will continue to serve the second year of
her term.
Elaine Coppola, Librarian for Government Information,
Political Science and International Relations in the Social
Sciences and Area Studies Department, has been named
the Syracuse University Library Assembly (SULA)
Distinguished Service Award winner for 2008. Elaine
received her award May 13 at the Library's annual spring
staff recognition event. Suzanne Thorin, University
Librarian and Dean of Libraries, thanked Elaine for
nearly three decades of service including work as a
catalog librarian, social sciences reference bibliographer,
reference desk manager, and reference head before
assuming her present position in Social Sciences and Area
Studies in 2005. In letters of recommendation, Elaine's
colleagues commended "her collegial nature, sense of
humor, analytical ability, and overall sense of advocacy
for individual librarians and the broad field of
librarianship more generally."
David Stokoe was recently awarded Professional
Associate status of the American Institute for
Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC.) The
only national organization in the United States dedicated
to the preservation of cultural material, the AIC plays a
crucial role in establishing and
standards, promoting research and publications,
providing educational opportunities, and fostering the
exchange of knowledge among conservators, allied
professionals, and the public. David has also been
published recently in the UK Society of Archivists
ARC Monthly (Archives, Records Management &
Conservation), February 2008, Number 222. The
article is entitled “An Englishman in New York.”
Ann Skiold, Art Librarian in the Arts and
Humanities Services Department, has joined the
library staff of Syracuse University in Florence (SUF)
from August 2008 through June 2009. Ann will work
closely with the SUF Library Coordinator to develop
library programs and enable SUF faculty and
students to make effective use of library resources.
She will also assist in developing collaborative
relationships between the SUF library and other
libraries in Florence. Finally, Ann will serve as a
consultant to the SUF director, SU Abroad, and the
SU Library.
Charlotte Hess has been appointed as the new
Associate University Librarian for Collections and
Scholarly Communication effective August 1. Ms.
Hess has served as the Director of Library and
Information Services Workshop in Political Theory
and Policy Analysis since 1989, and she has been the
director of the Digital Library of the Commons at
Indiana University since 2000. Prior to that, Ms Hess
served in several librarian positions at Indiana since
1976.
K. Matthew Dames has joined the Syracuse
University Library as Copyright & Information Policy
Officer. Prior to coming to Syracuse, Kevin held the
position of Founder and Principal of Seso Group,
LLC, Washington, DC, an information strategy and
advisory firm that specializes in helping
organizations create, archive, deliver, share and
protect digital assets. He is currently working on his
PhD in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse
University.
Donald Seibert and Mary Laverty have accepted
positions as temporary librarians in Arts &
Humanities, effective April and May respectively.
They will assist with cataloging a portion of the
music sound recording collection.
Scott Warren has been named as the new Librarian-
Bibliographer for Science & Technology effective
August 1. Scott comes from North Carolina State
University Libraries, Raleigh, NC, where he held the
position of Associate Director, Textiles Library and
Engineering Services, Burlington Textiles Library.
Angela Ramnarine-Rieks, Web Administrator, has
resigned from the Library and is returning to the
iSchool at Syracuse University to pursue her PhD,
effective August 2008.
Yuming Tung, Head of Library Information
Technology, has accepted a new position as of June 1
as Director of Information Technology at SUNY
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College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
University at Albany
Karen E.K. Brown, Preservation Librarian, University
at Albany, has been elected Chair of ALCTS/PARS,
serving a 3 year term starting in July 2008. Ms. Brown
was also the recipient of the President’s Award and
Chancellor's Award for Excellence. The Preservation
Department received a major gift from former Dean and
Director Meredith Butler to establish its first endowment.
In addition, Ms. Brown has been promoted to the rank of
Associate Librarian and was granted tenure in July 2008.
Mary F. Casserly, Assistant Director for Collections and
User Services, was promoted to the rank of Librarian on
July 10, 2008.
Trudi Jacobson’s second co-edited book in the
information literacy collaborations series, Using
Technology to Teach Information Literacy, has just been
published by Neal-Schuman. Chapters are written by
librarian and faculty member teams. Trudi’s co-editor is
Tom Mackey, now Associate Dean at the Center for
Distance Learning, Empire State College.
Carol Jewell had an article published in Against the
Grain: “Using Google in Technical Services: An
Unscientific Study.” The full citation to her article is
Against the Grain, Vol.20, No.2 (April 2008), pp.22-26.
Candace A. Merbler is the recipient of both the 2008
President's Excellence Award for Professional Service and
the 2008 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Professional Service. In addition, Ms. Merbler has been
reappointed to a two year term on the ALA AFL-CIO/ALA
Library Service to Labor Groups Division Committee.
Mary Osielski, Senior Assistant Librarian at the M. E.
Grenander Department of Special Collections and
Archives at the University at Albany, SUNY, has
announced her retirement after forty years of
service. Her retirement will start on October 29, 2008.
Conference: continued from p.2
OPAC records and to build a personalized collection of
information resources in PennTag accounts. Patrons
can annotate and tag items with terms that are
meaningful to their own research interests and
ultimately develop their own system for understanding
content. PennTag annotations and tags also appear in
the OPAC records, adding another layer of information
for others while maintaining the integrity of the MARC
record. PennPage is a new application that takes
advantage of PennTags and allows librarians to
develop dynamic online subject guides that draw
content from PennTag accounts and RSS feeds.
A presentation and demonstration entitled “Encore &
Grokker: Library Tools for Enhanced Searching”
was given by Kate Bouman, Grokker Task Force
Chair and Binghamton University Reference
Librarian, and Alesia McManus, Encore Development
Team Chair and Binghamton University Head of
Research, Information and Instructional Services.
Bouman described Grokker, a licensed product, as a
visual search tool that allows patrons to visualize their
information and see what concepts are related and how
they are organized. Grokker is best suited for big topics
or very general topics. First year and sophomore
students are the targeted audience. The goal is to move
students beyond the first page of results. McManus
described Encore, an Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
product, as yet another option for searching the catalog
at Binghamton. One of the library goals is to provide
different ways to search the catalog in support of the
various learning styles and preferences of students.
McManus explained that Encore sits on top of the
catalog and provides an enhanced search interface with
faceted searching, tag clouds, and keyword based
relevance ranking.
Lauren Pinsley, OCLC Services Manager at Nylink,
began her presentation, “Introducing WorldCat
Local,” by discussing the current environment in
which academic libraries find themselves. Because of
the web, user expectations have changed enormously.
Students in particular have increased needs and
desires when it comes to research, even though they
may have poor research skills. Technological
development has led students to expect interactivity,
immediate results, self-service at any time and
anyplace along with Web 2.0 ease of use. At the same
time, they need (and sometimes want) the
authoritative content and research assistance for
which libraries have long been valued. OCLC has
developed three WorldCat products to support today’s
users: Open WorldCat, WorldCat.org, and WorldCat
Local. Open WorldCat is the variant of WorldCat that
is available for anyone to use on the web. WorldCat.org
is “...a Web portal to the WorldCat global catalog with
a supporting program of data syndication that makes
your library’s collection discoverable virtually
anywhere on the Web.” WorldCat Local is the library-
branded version of WorldCat.org that puts the local
library’s resources first in search results and
interoperates with local systems. Pinsley demonstrated
basic and advanced searching, limiting searching, and
linking to ILLIAD in WorldCat Local. She urged those
interested to visit the University of Washington’s
library where WorldCat Local has created a 65%
increase in borrowing within its consortium and a 70%
increase in ILL requests.
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“The eXtensible Catalog Project at the
University of Rochester,” was presented by Judi
Briden, Digital Librarian for Public Services at the
University of Rochester, River Campus libraries and
member of the Melon funded eXtensible Catalog (XC)
Project Team, and Jeff Suszezynski, Senior Web
Developer in the Digital Initiatives Unit at the
University of Rochester. Briden explained that the
University of Rochester hosts the project where a
development team designs software that it readily
shares under an open source license. XC can be used
as an alternative way to “reveal collections” and can be
used with or in place of an opac. It works to integrate
library content into other systems such as a learning
system like Blackt ‘d or websites. It is
open source, collaborative, and can be downloaded at
no cost. However, Briden cautioned that you must
have the funds for updates and staff support. You are
supplied with the tools to customize XC and it comes
bundled with a user interface that includes a complete
suite of Web 2.0 functionality. Development partners
include Notre Dame (Aleph) and the University at
Buffalo (Blackboard). User research partners include
Cornell, Yale, and Ohio State University. They are
currently looking for an ANGEL partner. Suszezynski,
speaking about the XC Network, listed the many
technologies and protocols that are used, including
Open Archives Initiative, PHP, Java, LDAP,
Evergreen, Blackboard, SAKAL, and Drupal. He
reiterated the need for funds to cover staff support of
XC. He explained that XC helps define new roles for
libraries. It enables librarian participation in learning
management software environments. It can be used to
aid researchers by uncovering and addressing evolving
user needs. Briden ended the session by sharing that
libraries with XC have vision. They use new metadata
standards to improve access, bring metadata into web
environments, develop customized solutions, share
code, and understand the needs of users in an ongoing
fashion.
Conference Note Takers: Barbara Grimes, Pat Markley,
Joyce Rambo, Christine Rudecoff, and Kari Zhe-
Heimerman.
David Lankes, keynote speaker for the conference, presented
"Participatory Librarianship and Radical Change Agents."
Captured Moments: continued from p.3
if all are in agreement, she and the rest of the staff at
SENYLRC will provide training and support in every
aspect of project implementation.
A benefit of membership in HRVH is that many local
staffing needs are eliminated. The need for in-house
expertise on the finer points of metadata construction
or CONTENTdm functionality are reduced since Jen
Palmantiero, the Digital Systems Librarian (aka the
“Metadata Queen”), at Southeastern is available to
talk through problems by phone or email, and
occasionally make site visits to provide additional
hands-on training. Likewise, sporadic problems with
CONTENTdm software are analyzed and resolved by
SENYLRC’s Systems Manager Zack Spaulding. Thus,
in our case, we need only two people at any given time
to launch a new collection. In the college setting, we
are fortunate to have a steady stream of young,
technology sophisticates -- work study students or
library interns -- who are quick studies as assistants. I
train this person to scan and Photoshop materials
according to the guidelines set out by HRVH.
Additionally, he or she usually provides some of the
basic metadata for images in the spreadsheet format
that CONTENTdm provides. As project director, I
make decisions about what materials to scan; I create
and supervise the creation of metadata; and I
administer the collections, which includes editing,
approving, uploading, updating, or deleting items as
necessary. While this is time consuming, it has become
one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
Researching the stories behind some particularly
striking image or group of images is intrinsically
satisfying, and of course, since the collections become
immediately accessible to anyone in the world, we
receive periodic feedback that others find the materials
likewise intriguing. In one instance, I was contacted
by a gentleman in California who was thrilled to
discover our collection of Harvey Fite [Opus 40]
images. He wrote that he had visited Opus 40 with his
young wife in 1965 and had taken a home movie of
their exploration of this breathtaking landscape
sculpture. He sent me a digital copy of this, now
viewable on our HRVH collection at:
http:/www.hrvh.org/u?/bard.376.
This illustrates what became an important decision in
our approach : rather than use digital technology to
simply exhibit our existing collections, our digital
collections represent a visual story-telling tool distinct
from our physical collections. Thus, we invited
alumni/ae and community members to lend us
photograph collections that we then scanned and
returned, along with complimentary CDs of digitized
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images. This has worked very well, allowing us greater
freedom to portray interesting aspects of college and
community history for which we haven't had sufficient
visual documentation. The donors are credited in the
collection descriptions and metadata, the archives
becomes a point of meaningful contact for alumni/ae
and the surrounding community, and to date all
parties have been satisfied with the arrangement.
Our collections have been used for teaching purposes,
most recently to inspire students for a class entitled
“Writing the Hudson.” Campus offices (i.e.
Publications and the Alumni/ae Office) also make
frequent use of individual images for reference or
publication. We have included all of Bard’s HRVH
collections on our archives website, branded
accordingly, and thus our digital efforts reach a variety
of audiences.
To ensure that these digital collections remain
available, SENYLRC maintains a server devoted to the
HRVH project, comprised of access jpeg images. We
maintain tiff and jpeg files on an external hard drive
in my office, and eventually (perhaps by the time you
read this) all of these will be backed up onto archival
CDs or DVDs. For additional security as well as inter-
departmental access, conversations are underway with
visual resources staff on campus to load all of our
scanned images, including hundreds of scanned
images currently without metadata, onto Bard’s
implementation of the Madison Digital Image
Database, or MDID. But this, I suspect, is the stuff of
another article.
Today, HRVH boasts several awards, and its 30
contributors include academic and public libraries,
historical societies, museums, and other cultural
organizations. This past year HRVH, in collaboration
with Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, launched
an extraordinary exhibit entitled “The Missing
Chapter: Untold Stories of African Americans in the
Hudson Valley,” which has provided essential primary
source materials to teachers, students, genealogists,
and scholars alike. HRVH has firmly established itself
as a regional leader among institutions engaged in
digital initiatives.
For my part, the cause of those early leg cramps is now
a dimpled toddler who keeps up with his big brothers
and easily outruns his mother. And, lo! Bard College
is represented on HRVH with over 350 images... and
counting.
Bard’s digital collections can be viewed on HRVH at
http://www.hrvh.org/collections/inst-intro.htm?inst=1,
or at our website, www.bard.edu/archives. For access
to the collections of all contributors to Hudson River
This stream-fed pool beside a waterfall on the Sawkill
Creek was a grand gathering place for the Bard commu-
nity until the early 1970s.
Valley Heritage, or for information about how to
become a contributor, see www.hrvh.org.
Helene Tieger currently serves as the Chair of the
Digital Advisory Committee to Hudson River Valley
Heritage.
Digital Collections Colgate
continued from p. 4
OCLC database specialist to map our Dublin Core
records to MARC and upload them to WorldCat. We
will explore adding these records to our own III catalog.
There is another potential still image project on the
horizon (archival images of our own campus) and to go
along with that image collection, and try
CONTENTdm’s robust complex object component, we
have received permission to digitize and display the
book, A History of Colgate. We hope you will look at our
collections, available at http://diglib.colgate.edu/.
Soldiers posed beside an observation or signal tower from
the Andrew J. Russell Photographs collection.
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Digital Collections at Hamilton
continued from p. 5
+ Enhancing vendor deliverables
Vendors do not always deliver what you expect. For
le, vendors may deliver files that need to be
more likely to actually
get done.
We hope to eventually be
able to replace the disc
burning procedure with
a hard disk based
archiving and preserva-
tion system like DSpace
or Fedora, which are
designed to manage
digital objects of all
versions and formats.
Neither of these seems s
right for us at this time. Smad
Another way to elimi- - mh
. rf ae
nate burning optical
discs as part of our
archival strategy would
be to use one of the
online storage services
such as OCLC’s Digital Archive or a cheaper alterna-
tive like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon $3).
Letter written by Josephus Knap
from Camp Coleman to his sis-
ter Meg on August 29, 1861.
In addition to optical dise storage of the JPEG2000
files, we store copies of every version and format of
every digital object, including images and text, on a 1-
terabyte external hard drive unit. We maintain a
duplicate copy of these files on a second unit of the
same kind.
We feel quite justified in bending best practices in
order to meet local needs, since after all, there is often
no consensus on a given best practice anyway, and we
have seen that best practices change over time. We
consider them starting points from which we often
have to back off from or go beyond for reasons that are
sometimes out of our control.
We have learned that digital collections development
takes more time and energy than we would ever have
thought possible.
+ Materials preparation
Materials to be digitized sometimes need preparation
before they are ready to be digitized. They may need to
be inventoried, labeled, and encased in protective
sleeves. In our case, few of the objects to be digitized
had a unique identification number. We had to set up
a naming and numbering system and label each item
before we could digitize them.
renamed in accordance with local practice. The files
may not have been sized properly for your delivery
system. The supplied metadata may need to be refor-
matted, or, as in our case, the TEl-encoding text files
may need to be edited manually so they work with
your XSL stylesheets.
+ Responding to changing standards
We initially had our vendor transcribe the handwrit-
ten letters and encode them according to TEI guide-
lines. The vendor encoded them according to the TEI
version P4 guidelines, which were the current version
at that time. Four years later the P5 version was
released. We had to update all 3,953 pages of text to
the newer version using an XSLT transformation and
lots of manual editing.
+ Programming and systems work
In 2002, we started out by developing our own home-
grown system in PHP for delivering images and the
TEL-encoded text on the Web. Getting it to display all
items in useful ways, getting this all to work on all
Web browsers, setting up object permissions where IP
rights were required, keeping up with new versions of
PHP, and figuring out how to expose our objects
properly to search engines and metadata harvesters
was overwhelming the project staff and taking time
away from actually creating the digital objects and
metadata. In 2007, we installed CONTENTdm and
migrated all of our data to it. This has solved many of
our problems — though it has stretched our budget for
licensed software.
CONTENTdm is working well for our image collec-
tions, but it does not handle TEI files well at all. To get
around this limitation we upload just the metadata for
each TEI object and supply a link to a PHP script that
fetches the TEI file from an XML database (eXist) and
transforms the file with an XSL stylesheet to generate
the XHTML for display in the user’s browser. Most of
this happens outside of CONTENTdm. The TEI file
has embedded links to image files for each page. (For
an example, see http://dlib.hamilton.edu/dV/dlget.php?
item=spe-civ-mis-02167.) We hope CONTENTdm will
someday do this for us out of the box.
Programming was also required to modify two scripts
that were contributed to the CONTENTdm user
community by Terry Reese of Oregon State University.
These scripts enhance the functionality of CON-
TENTdm’s Web interface. One of the scripts we use,
“CONTENTdm Facet Builder,” adds facets to the
search results page (see Figure 1) and the other (see
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continued from p. 18
“Implementing Social Tagging and user comment
capture in CONTENTdm’) allows users to submit
comments.
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+Enhancing metadata
Long after we had already mounted thousands of
objects on CONTENTdm we decided to implement
persistent identifiers in our metadata. We developed a
home-grown system of URL redirection (4) and had to
update all of the records.
We also decided after implementing CONTENTdm to
add a Keywords field to each metadata record and
populate it with a controlled set of topics and syno-
nyms that could be used by the facet-making script we
added to CONTENTdm. This was time consuming, but
worth it in the end. In the future, we expect to be
adding preservation metadata fields to existing records
as well.
+ Writing file management scripts
CONTENTdm requires that all files that make up a
multi-page object be stored together in a single folder
before they can be batch uploaded. We wrote a script
that trolls through the images directory, identifies
those that are constituents of the same object, and
copies them together into a folder for just that object.
Fortunately, our objects have filenames that are very
detailed and can be easily parsed programmatically
(5).
+ Digital Object Maintenance and Preservation
Keeping track of all the versions and copies of our
digital objects, especially multi-page objects and
complex objects such as those consisting of images
with encoded text is error-prone and time consuming.
CONTENTdm is only a delivery system and not a
management or preservation system and so we need to
keep track of our digital objects outside of
CONTENTdm. Adopting JPEG2000 as both the master
and delivery file format has somewhat simplified our
storage and preservation strategy, but we are deter-
mined to find a systematic way of managing all these
copies and versions of files — one that automatically
checks the integrity of the files and the condition of the
medium they are stored on, and notifies us whenever
there is a possible problem. Until then we will have to
be vigilant in monitoring the condition and location of
the objects we have created.
In summary, we have learned that delivering and
maintaining digital collections requires constant
review of best practices, standards, delivery systems
and preservation procedures. Reformatting the digital
files, enhancing the metadata, scripting new features
into the delivery system, and archiving the digital
objects is time-consuming but necessary in order to
ensure that we will be able to deliver them to users for
years to come.
The Hamilton College Library Digital Collections Web
site is http://elib.hamilton.edw and now includes not
only Civil War letters but also photographs and texts
from the Library's Communal Societies Collection and
the Hamilton College Archives. However, do not be
surprised if you find the system down sometime this
fall while we are migrating CONTENTdm and all of
our data to a new server. The only constant in digital
collections development is change.
Notes
1. We the di and TEL
encoding of more than two thousand pages of Civil War letters to
Backstage Library Works with grants from New York State
Regional Bibli ic Databases and i
Sharing Program through the Central New York ibeery
Resources Council.
2. For example, files of compound objects need to be named in
specific ways before they can be batch uploaded and properly
processed by CONTENTdm. What's more, as it ingests the files,
CONTENT™ renames them again to suit its own internal
purposes.
3. We generate JPEG2000 files using Photoshop CS3 with the j2k
plug-in from fnordware (settings: format = JPX, compres-
sion/quality (lossy) = 75%, tile size = 1024, order = resolution,
position; profile = sRGB). For more on the use of JPEG2000 as an
archival file format see “JPEG 2000 - a Practical Digital Preser-
vation Standard? ” by Robert Buckley.
4, Each persistent identifier points to a PHP script that takes the
value of the “item” parameter and constructs a URL pointing to
that object in the system that is currently delivering it. For
example, the URL http://dlib.hamilton.edu/dl/dlget.php?item=spe-
sha-pho070 displays image “spe-sha-pho070” in CONTENTdm.
Another persistent identifier points to the collection home page:
http://dlib.hamilton -sha-pho,
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5. The following is a typical filename in our system: “yhm-spe-
sha-pho023-001_Front.tif.” (‘yhm” = our OCLC symbol, “spe’
“Special Collections Department,” “sha” = The Shaker Collection,
“pho” = photographs, “023” = photograph no. 23, “001” = the
sequence number, “Front” = the caption).
Mentioned Resources
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon $3) - http:h sl
www.amazon ws-home-page- c fe 12?
16427261 &n0=34: 5561 &me=aR61949t6) i2aja
Backstage Library Works - http://www.marclink.com/
Best Practices & Publications Caloraide Digitization Program) -
http://www.ber.
CONTENTdm (OCLC) - http://www.contentdm.com/
“JPEG 2000 - a Practical Digital Preservation Standard?” by
Robert Buckley, Technology Watch Report 08-01, February 2008 -
http://www.dpconlin O1.pdf
Central New ort Library Resources Council (CLRC) - http://
www.clre.
“CONTENTdm Facet Builder” by Terry Reese -
di htm]
Digital Archive (OCLC) -_http://www.ocle.org/digitalarchive/
DSpace - http://www.dspace.org/
eXist - http://www.exist-db.org/
Fedora - http://www.fedora-commons.org/
+ http://ww maj 2k)
Hamilton College Library Digital Collections - http://
elib.hamilton.edu/
“Implementing Social Tagging and user comment capture in
CONTENTdm” by Terry Reese - http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/
contentdm/downloads.html
New York State Regional Bibliographic Databases and Interli-
brary Resources Sharing Program - (http:/www.nyslnysed.gov/
regs/9019.htm
“Techni for Creating Digital Collections” by
Stephen Chapman (Library Technology Reports, Vol. 4, Issue 5,
2004)
TEI P4 Gui (2002) - http: .tei-c.org/Gui
TEI P5 Guidelines (2007) - http://www.tei-
c.org/Guidelines/P5/
Peter MacDonald,
Library Information Systems Specialist
Hamilton College Library
CDLC Digitization
continued from p. 8
comments and questions related to our metadata
guidelines. Although we believe our metadata guide-
lines are very good, we know that they will change as
we learn more about digitization as well as the needs
of our libraries and their users. Although this can
sometimes be frustrating for project participants —
they probably feel like we are pulling the rug out from
under them — it is something that every project is go-
ing through. Digitization is still very new, and even
those institutions which have been doing this a lot
longer than we have are still in the learning stage.
Although there are many excellent metadata examples
out there and many different types of guidelines, there
are no standards yet for digitization as there are in
areas like cataloging. If you are going to be involved
with metadata, you should be comfortable with ambi-
guity and change!
Most of our initial participants have uploaded images
and metadata to our CONTENTdm site. Although
everyone with more experience than ourselves warned
us that it would take longer and be more difficult than
we anticipated, we were still surprised at the amount
of effort it has taken to get this first stage off the
ground. We are lucky to have received a grant to fund
a part-time field trainer. The project probably could
not be accomplished without the field trainer to en-
courage people and provide advice in the early stages
of the project. We anticipate that the work will become
smoother as time goes on and librarians throughout
the region become more knowledgeable about digitiza-
tion.
We have yet to do any web design on our site, so we are
reluctant to point anyone to the site. We do know that
participants are anxious to share their work with the
world, so that is the next thing on our agenda. Watch
a coming issue of this newsletter for information on our
site’s public debut!
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Rensselaer Digital Collections
continued from p. 9
the images. The original TIFF file is also available for
viewing. METS metadata wrappers organize each ob-
ject’s images, bringing together different images of
each architectural object, and also describe the mani-
festation relationship between the TIFF and JPEG
2000 files.
Many of our initial collections are growing on an ongo-
ing basis, and we are also working on expanding our
offerings. In the near future, we will be adding materi-
als related to Experimental Media and Performing
Arts performances, as well as expanding the collection
of technical reports. Several recent years of The Poly-
technic (R laer’s student paper) are also
ready to be added to the Collections, once issues re-
lated to copyright and syndicated content are resolved.
Future additions will include older, out-of-copyright
Polytechnic issues. We also are planning a review and
revision of our existing metadata, developing policies
for the creation of new collections, and investigating
providing access to sound and video files through a
streaming server.
Link to the Rensselaer Digital Collections from the
Rensselaer Libraries homepage at http://
library.rpi.edu.
Logo, Rensselaer Digital Collections.
Syracuse University
continued from p. 10
Belfer Sound Engineer, Robert Hodge
Metadata and Cataloging
Much of the past year was spent setting standards in
the area of cataloging and metadata which was a ne-
cessity in order to move forward with this project. We
established guidelines and a new template for creating
and updating our cylinder catalog records in order to
have full cataloging.
When UC-Santa Barbara created bibliographic records
for their cylinders, they borrowed Syracuse Univer-
sity’s cataloging for items held in both libraries and
enhanced them with subject headings and links to
their digitized audio files. For our project, UCSB
shared their enhanced records for the approximately
6000 cylinders that duplicate our holdings. This
“instantly” gave us new, full catalog records and links
to digital audio files for approximately half of our cylin-
der titles. From there, we established the metadata
standards which are applied when the catalog records
are cross-walked from the Voyager ILS into CON-
TENTdm.
Faculty input
We solicited faculty input on a number issues related
to this project. Our Senior Program Officer for Re-
search and Analysis met and conducted interviews
with four music faculty. From these interviews, we
learned much about the way they do their work and
the processes they utilize in audio research. We also
developed and distributed a survey instrument to ob-
tain additional information from a broader group of
faculty about their needs and preferences directly re-
lated to the cylinder collection and our digitizing pro-
ject. The feedback from this survey has informed many
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continued from p. 21
of our decisions related to the project, including our
decision to name the cylinder collection the Belfer Cyl-
inders Digital Connection, a name suggested by our
Music Librarian.
Collection Access
We've worked with our Communications Designer to
create an inviting and accessible entryway web page
for this collection. Faculty input from the survey has
informed our choice of search options on this page as
well as ideas about the placement of external links to
the collection. The digital delivery and storage space
on the CONTENTdm server has been designated and
configured. We have been loading test records and
adjusting the collection settings accordingly. One of
the most recent and exciting additions is a very user-
friendly embedded cross-platform flash audio player
that will appear within the CONTENTdm record and
automatically play when the recording is selected.
As you can see, this cylinder project is an excellent
example of interdepartmental collaboration and illus-
trates the complexity of digitization projects in gen-
eral. For this Delmas grant funded project, Suzanne
Thorin, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, is
Principal Investigator. The main working group in-
cludes Melinda Dermody, Project Director and Head of
the Arts and Humanities Department and Belfer;
Carole Vidali, Project Manager and Music Librarian;
Sarah Theimer, Assistant Head of Cataloging; Robert
Hodge, Audio Engineer; and Suzanne Preate, Digital
Projects Coordinator/Digital Imaging Librarian. As
needed, we also called on the following individuals for
various input/assistance: Susan Stinson, Audio Ar-
chives Research Specialist; Penelope Singer, Imaging
Technical Specialist and Communications Designer;
Angela Ramnarine-Rieks, Web Administrator; Jeremy
Morgan, Web Developer; Nancy Turner, Senior Pro-
gram Officer for Research and Analysis; and Pamela
McLaughlin, Director of Communications and External
Relations.
Stay tuned for the announcement of our product
launch! The Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection will
be accessible at the Digital Collections page
http://digilib.syr.edu/ of the Syracuse University Li-
brary web site http://library.syr.edu.
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