Digital Collection Road Trip: Activating Museum Collections by Digitizing Rare and Unique Materials from the Library and Archives

In 2012, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Library received a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to digitize an important and unique collection of 18th and 19th century European art auction catalogs in the renowned John G. Johnson Collection. More than 1200 masterpieces in the Johnson Collection form the core of the Museum’s European painting holdings. Mr. Johnson’s collection of auction catalogs, which was also donated to the Museum, is of vital importance to our understanding of the history of collecting and connoisseurship in the United States. In many instances, Mr. Johnson’s copies of auction catalogs are the only versions annotated with the prices realized in actual sales and/or information pertaining to the buyers. In addition, one out of every five of Mr. Johnson’s catalogs represents an edition that has never been filmed or digitized. Digitizing these catalogs will make this unique corpus of materials, a total of more than 1,500 titles, widely available to museum curators, art historians and researchers throughout the world as well as the general public via multiple channels, including the Internet Archive, PMA Library’s online catalog, OCLC’s SCIPIO auction catalogue database, and the new Getty Research Portal.

After a brief overview of the collection and the project workflow, the presenters will give a quick walk-through of their cataloging and digitization processes. The webinar will also cover some of the steps and procedures of working with Lyrasis, Internet Archive, Getty Research Institute, and the Library’s system vendor to extract and manipulate the metadata associated with the digitized catalogs. At the end, the presenters will share some interesting aspects of the project and lessons learned.

Date: October 24, 2013

Time: 1:00-2:00 ET

 

Host: Regan Harper

Presenters: Billy Chi-hing Kwan, Assistant Library Director

Ryan McNally, Project Cataloger and Coordinator
Philadelphia Museum of Art Library

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Representing Reference: Measuring Success - How one institution is determining the impact of bibliographic instruction and what they are doing with the results

As LYRASIS continues to explore assessment of information literacy training in libraries, this month we turn to the efforts of the staff at the William C. Jason Library at Delaware State University. They've developed a tool called Knowledge Check Survey - a survey administered (through LibGuides) to first-year university seminar students. In this presentation, staff of the William C. Jason Library at Delaware State University will present and demonstrate their Knowledge Check Survey and the results it has yielded so far. They'll share how the Knowledge Check Survey was developed and discuss its implementation as an instrument to assess information literacy (IL) sessions taught to First-Year University Seminar students> They'll also preview a new information literacy game, also developed by the librarians at Delaware State. They'll explain how the results are used to help them understand how to improve IL classes for future students.

Host: Eric Zino

Guest Presenters: Jean Charlot, Beverly Charlot, and Rosamond Panda

Date: September 17, 2013

Time: 1:00-2:00 ET

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LYRASIS Polite Debate Society - Information Literacy Assessment: What Works? What Doesn't?

During the last Polite Debate Society, we addressed Information literacy from the teaching perspective... How to teach the Hard Stuff. In part 2 of the series, panelists from the information literacy community will spend 90 minutes discussing key issues in information literacy assessment. The teaching landscape for IL librarians continues to evolve rapidly. Assessment strategies used previously in the traditional classroom environment are challenging, if not impossible to implement in an educational setting where we use both the physical and virtual classroom, where technology dictates our approach to teaching so heavily, and where many deal with the pressure cooker of the "one shot" class. Still others are learning what kinds of assessment strategies are most effective in the semester long credit bearing information literacy course. In our Polite Debate Society session, our panel will review and critique some common assessment strategies, discuss what works and what doesn't in a variety of settings, and share ideas for best practices in information literacy assessment.

Date: July 19th, 2013
Time: 1:00-2:30 ET

Host: Russell Palmer

Panelists:

Annemarie Roscello, Associate Professor at Bergen Community College in Paramus
Andrea G. Stanfield, Information Literacy Coordinator at the University of West Georgia.

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LYRASIS 2nd Friday - Resource Sharing Detective Work: Find it and Get it Using Free and Open Access Resources

The digital word is rapidly changing our approach to resource sharing. Institutional repositories, open access resources, and digitization projects are quickly opening doors to previously inaccessible information.

In this free 90 minute 2nd Friday Series session, Russell Palmer, resource sharing and reference specialist at LYRASIS, will share resources, tips, and tricks to help reference and resource sharing staff find and retrieve scholarly articles, newspapers, archival records, maps and other materials that are sometimes challenging to get into the hands of users.

After this session, attendees will be able to:

• Utilize digital resources more effectively as they pursue challenging reference and resource sharing requests
• Decrease the number of unfilled resource sharing requests
• Understand the scope of digital information available in institutional repositories, open access resources, and digital collections

Presenter:  Russell Palmer

Date:  August 9, 2013
Time:  12:30-2:00 ET

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LYRASIS 2nd Friday - Graphic Design for Non-Designers: Design and Branding for Libraries and Cultural Heritage Institutions

It is likely that in your work or personal life, you have been asked to create some communication on paper, on-screen, or in some visual presentation. One problem with this is that the only tools that you are given to complete the task are ones like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint or Publisher, which are not dedicated design tools, but rather fill-in-the-blank approaches to design, where your creativity is limited to what the application provides in a pre-packaged way. Another issue is that in our society, we are typically taught reading, writing, and mathematics, but seldom taught even the most basic visual communication concepts.

In this 1.5 hour overview, John LeMasney, Manager of Educational Technology Training at Princeton University, will offer an overview of the foundation of design principles, free tools for design and illustration, and the basics of branding and visual communication that will lead to creating more effective visual messages.

Host:  Regan Harper
Guest Presenter: John LeMasney, Manager of Educational TechnologyTraining,
Princeton University

Date: July 12, 2013

Time: 12:30- 2:00 ET

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Evergreen Demo: Interested in the Evergreen Open Source ILS? (Live Online)

New Dates Added!

Evergreen Demo: Interested in the Evergreen Open Source ILS? (Live Online)

Interested in the Evergreen Open Source ILS? Join us for a one hour session about the LYRASIS Evergreen ILS services which include hosting, migration and support and demonstration of the system.

Presenter:  Jennifer Bielewski

12/5/2013  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
1/9/2014    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
2/11/2014  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
4/1/2014    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Seats available.  For more information and to register, click here.