Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 34 Issue 1

An overview of ICD medical classification for the information professional

H. Frank Cervone

Informatics work introduces information professionals to taxonomies and other classification systems outside the boundaries of traditional bibliographic systems. This paper aims…

Creating capacity for digital projects: A case study in identifying and building upon strengths

Jess Newman, Suzanne Bonefas, Wendy Trenthem

This paper offers a case study in creating capacity for digital initiatives at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee through an exploration of the Crossroads to Freedom program, a…

Creative collaboration: student creative works in the institutional repository

Rose Sliger Krause, Andrea Langhurst Eickholt, Justin L. Otto

The purpose of this paper is to describe the music performance collection preserved in Eastern Washington University’s institutional repository (IR). This collection of recordings…

Staffing with students: Digitizing campus newspapers with student volunteers at the University of Minnesota, Morris

Naomi Skulan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages and disadvantages to primarily utilizing undergraduate student volunteers for a long-term digitization project and to…

Ramping up: Evaluating large-scale digitization potential with small-scale resources

Cory Lampert

Digital library managers are faced with growing pressure to digitize materials efficiently on a larger scale. This paper aims to address the staffing and other resources needed to…

Librarian as data migrator: a functional pathway from Millennium to Koha

Christopher R. Todd

This case study aims to demonstrate that in-house integrated library systems migration can be accomplished by a dedicated team of librarians without advanced tools or prior…

Account-based recommenders in open discovery environments

Jim Hahn, Courtney McDonald

This paper aims to introduce a machine learning-based “My Account” recommender for implementation in open discovery environments such as VuFind among others.