UWDC: Creating A Digital Future Through Cooperation

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UWDC Creating A Digital Future Through
Cooperation

• Nolan Pope Patrick Wilkinson
• The Wisconsin Digital Library Bringing the
  Pieces Together
• March 24, 2004

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uwdc.library.wisc.edu
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• Since Summer of 2001

• 400,000 Pages or Images
• Approved 20 UWS Funded Projects
• Created Web Site to Access All UWS Libraries
  Digital Initiatives
• Added content Provided by UW Madison
• Promote

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• Types of
• materials
• in UWDC

• Printed text
• Manuscripts
• Photographs
• Maps
• Oral Histories
• Video . . . coming

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One System, One Library

• The UW System libraries, fostering the one
  system, one library concept . . . will provide .
  . . access to a truly great public university
  library collection and to a global network of
  electronic information

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Need Recognized Nationally

• Americas colleges and universities could make a
  great contribution by digitizing massive amounts
  of their library holdings and making them easily
  accessible online to scholars and students
  everywhere.
• Should We Massively Digitize Academic
  Libraries? CLIRinghouse. Number 14.
  January/February 2003. http//www.clir.org/pubs/cl
  iringhouse/house14.html

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• Purpose

• Provide quality digital resources from its
  academic libraries to UW faculty, staff and
  students, citizens of the state and scholars at
  large.

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• Center (utility)
• Digitizes
• Provides access
• Maintains digital projects

• Advisory Committee
• Recommends (Develop) specific projects
• Fosters cooperation among UWS libraries
• Offers broad financial oversight
• Cooperates with the Center in developing
  priorities, standards and guidelines

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• Previous Work
• Digital Library Task Force (2000)
• Faculty Survey
• Pilot Project
• Grand Transformation Committee (2001)

• Existing Strengths
• UWS Collections
• UWS Librarians Archivist
• UW Madison Libraries Digitization Center
• WHS/ARCs/UWSAC

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• Developed on Principles

• Careful Selection
• Willingness to Experiment
• One System, One Library
• Collaboration with Others in State

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• Benefits of
• UWDC

• Undergraduate
• Research, K 12 and general public
• Leverage resources
• One System, One Library
• UW faculty involvement
• Central web site

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• In Development . . .
• American Suzuki Institute at UW Stevens Point
  (video)
• Historic photographs of Adams County at UW La
  Crosse
• Preserving the History of US Agriculture and
  Rural Life . . . 1820 - 1945
• Wisconsin Public Documents series (labor,
  commerce, environment)

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• Future
• of
• UWDC

• Identify and Fund
• Encourage UWS campus involvement
• Organize Collections
• Integrate Campus Digital Projects
• Explore new types of materials video
• Promote
• Cooperate with others

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• Professor Rima Apple, UW Madison
• Ewa Barczyk / Krystyna Matusiak, UW Milwaukee
• Lorie Docken, UW System
• Michael Edmonds, Wisconsin Historical Society
• Laura Jacobs, UW Superior
• Professor James Oberly, UW Eau Claire
• Nolan Pope, UW Madison UWDC Center
• Joshua Ranger, UW Oshkosh
• Patrick Wilkinson, UW Oshkosh (chair)

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• Patrick Wilkinson
• Library Director
• Forrest R. Polk Library
• UW Oshkosh
• Oshkosh, WI 54901
• 920.424.2147
• wilkinso_at_uwosh.edu