IMLS Digital Collections

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IMLS Digital Collections ContentandLSTA
Grantees

• Jenny Benevento
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project
• http//imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu

Statewide Digitization Planners Meeting June 24,
2006 ALA Annual, New Orleans
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Participants

• Timothy Cole, UIUC Library
• Sarah Shreeves, UIUC Library
• William Mischo, UIUC Library
• Nancy OBrien, UIUC Library
• Carole Palmer, UIUC GSLIS
• Michael Twidale, UIUC GSLIS
• Diny Golder, GEM
• Stuart Sutton, GEM
• Alyce Scott, Illinois State Library
• Joe Natale, Ilinois State Library

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Steering Committee

• Liz Bishoff, Univ. of Colorado
• Anne Craig, Illinois State Library
• Martha Crawley, IMLS
• Liz Liddy, Syracuse SIS
• Paul Marty, Florida State SIS
• Sam Quigley, Harvard Art Museums
• John Saylor, Cornell Libraries
• Brenda Trofanenko, UIUC
• Katherine Wisser, NC ECHO/Duke

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Project Update

• New home page
• New interface, being tested
• Utility to the community, in addition to research
  value.
• LSTAs being added!

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LSTAs NLGs

• Our experience is with NLG projects
• Can we extrapolate from NLGs to LSTAs?
• Are LSTAs similar? Whats different?

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LSTAs NLGs II

• Statewide versus nationwide differences?

• LSTAs differ state to state. (just IL right now)
  Impact of differences?

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NLGs Interoperability Technology

• Refer to table on handout
• Are barriers similar for LSTAs?
• Would a survey similar to the one done with NLGs
  be useful for understanding LSTAs?

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LSTAs Technology

• What technologies are they comfortable with?
  Would it be easier to harvest from statewide
  aggregations (with LSTA and non-LSTA) or
  individual LSTAs?

• OAI ready? ContentDM?
• Do LSTA collections need a collection record
  level of granularity?

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LSTAs Audience

• LSTA audiences different from NLG audience?
• Educators How do we partner with them?
• Standards different in each state.

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LSTAs Your Experience

• What has been your experience with LSTAs
• Technology
• Should we meet with LSTAs to dispense info? Who
  would come? What level should they be at?

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LSTAs Your Experience II

• Connections with educators?
• Would a survey similar to the one done with NLGs
  be useful for LSTAs? Useful for the community?

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Input Needed!

• Please contact me with any thoughts, experiences
  or questions.
• Jenny Benevento
• benevent_at_uiuc.edu
• 217.244.7809
• http//Imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu