Digital Collections Road Trip: Preserving and Digitizing the Architectural History of St. Augustine, Florida

Two grant-funded projects at the University of Florida are digitizing architectural drawings and related materials documenting the historical buildings of St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest permanently occupied European settlement in the continental United States. The Saving St. Augustine’s Architectural Treasures project, which was completed in 2012, preserved and digitized architectural drawings of Hotel Ponce de Leon and the Memorial Presbyterian Church, created by Henry Flagler during the height of the Gilded Age and designed by the prestigious Carrère & Hastings firm. The Unearthing St. Augustine’s Colonial Heritage project, which started in 2012, is digitizing maps, drawings, photographs and other materials documenting the city’s Spanish and British Colonial periods. This project is particularly exciting because it unites resources from the fields of architecture, archaeology, historic preservation, geography and history. Researchers will be able to discover digital objects using a new map-based search system as well as traditional search options.

Presenter: John Nemmers, Archivist
Cost: $0

Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET

Seats available. For more information and to register for this free session, click here.

2nd Friday Series - The Other Nutshell: Introduction to RDA for Serials (Live Online)

Beth Thornton, Head of Serials Cataloging at the University of Georgia, will provide an overview of the essentials of RDA (Resource Description and Access) as it applies to serials.

During this session, Beth will highlight some differences in cataloging practice RDA will introduce in the serials cataloging environment.

It will be of benefit to people who read and use serial records, such as acquisitions staff, and people at smaller libraries who copy catalog serials.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand introductory RDA instructions for serials Identify the differences between an RDA serial record and a current, AACR2 serial record

Presenter: Beth Thornton, Head of Serials Cataloging at Univeristy of Georgia.

Date: Friday April 12, 2013 12:30-2:00 ET

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

Making a Difference: Introduction to LYRASIS Membership for Non-Members (Live Online)

Like its members, LYRASIS is active and engaged, a consortium striving to advance knowledge by harnessing the collaborative spirit of all types of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other cultural heritage organizations.  Could your organization benefit from membership in LYRASIS? 

If your organization is not currently a member of LYRASIS*, attend our free, monthly, hour-long interactive session “Making a Difference” for an overview of LYRASIS’ mission, programs, and services -- including the recently announced LYRASIS Digital initiative.  Learn what membership in LYRASIS could mean for your organization.  We’ll provide information on LYRASIS ‘ extensive educational programming; partnerships and projects at the national and international levels; membership dues; governance;  and the simple and quick steps your organization can take to become a LYRASIS member. 

*If your organization is already a member of LYRASIS, attend the free, quarterly Latest from LYRASIS update webinars or contact membership@lyrasis.org for more information.

Presenters:  Timothy Cherubini and Regan Harper
Cost:  $0

Dates:
     March 27, 1:00-2:00 ET
     April 16,  1:30-2:30  ET
     May 17,   12:30-1:30  ET
     June 12,   1:30-2:30  ET

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

 

The Future of Collections: Creating and Managing Digital Content

This one-day meeting, hosted by the University of Florida, in conjunction with LYRASIS and OCLC, will focus on the future of library and cultural heritage collections. We will discuss and evaluate important decisions that impact the sustainability and value of collections—what content to preserve digitally, which tools are best for this task, which partners to engage with collaboratively, and how best to promote collections in new formats.

The sessions for this meeting have been chosen to share insights from digitization, preservation and content experts related to making and implementing these decisions.

Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Time: 10AM to 3PM  ET

Registration Fee: Free

Lunch: A boxed lunch will be provided

Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

George A. Smathers Library-Library East
Room 1A
Campus Map

Agenda

9:00 AM- 10:00 AM
Continental Breakfast/Registration/Introductory Remarks

10:00 AM-10:50 AM
Hey You, Get Offa My Cloud: New Directions In Library Music Collections
Matthew Moyer, Reference Librarian, Popular Media Department
Andrew Coulon, Librarian, Integrated Library Services 
Jacksonville Public Library

10:50-11:00 AM
Break

11:00 -12:15 Virtual presentations

Exploring a Collaborative Digitization Program:  Easy and Economical Digitization of Your Library's Materials
Laurie Gemmill Arp, LYRASIS

The HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collections and OCLC CONTENTdm
Angela Proctor, Southern University
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12:15-1:00
Boxed Lunch/ Group Discussion

Lunch Discussion:
Using Digital Collections for Outreach, Research, Reference, and Instruction
Russell Palmer, LYRASIS 

1:00-1:50
Using Digital Collections for Genealogy Research: Best Practices and Resources
Sylvia Ashwell, Librarian, Alachua County Library District
Pat Griggs, Alachua County Library District

1:50-2:00
Break

2:00-2:50
Collaborating with Digital Library Foundations
Suzan Alteri, University of Florida Libraries

2:50-3:20
OCLC ArchiveGrid
John Nemmers, University of Florida Libraries 

3:20-3:30
Wrap up/Summary

For more information about each session and speaker bios, click here.

Free Webinars Introducing FOSS4LIB

Do you find yourself trying to answer any of the following questions?

• Is open source software right for my institution?
• Do we have the necessary skills/support to run open source software?
• Would it be cheaper or more expensive to use open source software?
• What open source software package fits my requirements?

With the financial support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LYRASIS Technology Services introduces a new suite of tools to help you answer these questions.
Available to all in the library community, FOSS4LIB provides self-guided readiness assessments to help you determine if open source software is right for your library, as well as a registry of software packages to help you find information about open source software service providers, events and usage by peers. With these free tools, librarians and technologists can determine the best approach to leveraging open source software.
To learn more, make plans to attend any one of these FREE webinars:

• February 26th from 10am to 11am Eastern U.S. Time (1500 to 1600 UTC)
• March 22nd from noon to 1pm Eastern U.S. Time (1600 to 1700 UTC)
• April 22nd from 3pm to 4pm Eastern U.S. Time (1900 to 2000 UTC)

To sign up or to learn more about FOSS4LIB, please e-mail Peter Murray (Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org).

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

Cost:  $0

March 11, 1:00-2:00 ET
April 1, 1:00-2:00 ET
May 6, 1:00-2:00 ET

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

LYRASIS Free Lunch and Learn: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants (Live Online)

Are you considering applying for a Preservation Assistance Grant? Join us for a lunch and learn discussion to talk about your project ideas, as well as to get advice on crafting your narrative and goals. We will also be talking about what is eligible for potential digital preservation projects – now included in the Preservation Assistance Grant (PAG) as an option.

Presenter:  Alix Bentrud

Cost: $0

Date/Time:  All times are in Eastern Time

     February 22,   (1:00 - 2:00)
     March 13,  (12:00 - 1:00)

For more information and to register, click here.

Going Digital (Live Online)

Are you curious about all of the moving parts of getting a digitization project off the ground? Could you use a basic foundation of what is involved in this kind of endeavor? Then we have just the webinar for you.

Join LYRASIS Digital staff for a 1 hour free webinar that briefly introduces the critical components of digital content creation and collection development.

Cost: $0

Dates/Times:

February 20th 2:00-3:00 ET

Presenters: Laurie Arp & Alix Bentrud

March 15th 11:00-12:00 ET

Presenters: Leigh Grinstead & Tom Clareson

April 12th 9:30-10:30 ET

Presenters:  Laurie Arp & Alix Bentrud

May 20th 5:00-6:00 ET

Presenters: Leigh Grinstead & Alix Bentrud/Tom Clareson

June 17th 11:00-12:00 ET

Presenters: Leigh Grinstead & Alix Bentrud

 

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

Latest from LYRASIS (Live Online)

Join LYRASIS Regional Director for this informal overview and discussion of the latest programs and offerings from LYRASIS. This quarterly webinar series provides you an opportunity to take full advantage of the benefits that LYRASIS membership provides, and learn about new initiatives and programs that are coming your way.

Presenter:  Timothy Cherubini

Cost:  $0

Dates/Times:  All times are in Eastern Time

Coming Soon!

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

Digitization Collaborative Information Session (Live Online)

Learn about the LYRASIS Digitization Collaborative! If you are thinking about participating in the collaborative, please attend this session. This one hour interactive session will provide an overview of the project, including partners, roles and participant guidelines. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about participating in the project.

Lyrasis' Digitization Collaborative offers members the opportunity to contribute materials to a regional mass digitization project. Lyrasis facilitates the process by selecting vendors and developing a collaborative collection development policy, guidelines, standards, and workflows. The Collaborative is funded by the Lyrasis membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Presented by Laurie Gemmill Arp, Digital Collaborative Program Manager - LYRASIS
 
Dates/Times:  All times are in Eastern Time
     February 21   (10:00 - 11:00)
     March 12   (2:00 - 3:00)

     March 21   (10:00 - 11:00)

     April 10   (10:00 - 11:00)

     April 25   (2:00 - 3:00)
     May 8   (10:00 - 11:00)
     May 23  (2:00 - 3:00)
     June 6   (10:00 - 11:00)
     June18   (2:00 - 3:00)

For more information and to register, click here.

 

2nd Friday Series: Introduction to the Semantic Web: BIBFRAME, RDA, FRBR & Linked Data (Live Online)

In this one and one half hour 2nd Friday Series session, Robin Fay, Head of Database Maintenance at the University of Georgia and co-author of the book Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians, will introduce the concept of the semantic web, a movement founded by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in an effort to offer a common framework for shared data. She will review principles of linked data, RDA, FRBR, & BIBFRAME, including an overview of basics concepts and terminology

Presented by Robin Fay, Head of Database Maintenance at University of Georgia

Date:  March 8, 2013

Time: 12:30 - 2:00 (ET)

Fee: Free for LYRASIS members, $25.00 for non members

Seats are available! Visit us online for more information and to register!