Google Drive is a wonderful place to store backup copies of digitized content to share with others. Sometimes you have patron demand to make things available in a digital format before you have a true hosting platform. Why not share
We are living in strange times. Why not look into history to find hints about even stranger times? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have already digitized our New Hampshire town records and — based on my limited
Using little more than the technology we walk around with every day, collecting oral histories is easier than ever. For more information on oral histories and podcasting, please see the compiled “classwork” on Google Classroom, course code: vu10li Here are
How many times do we whip out our mobile phones to take photos of family photo albums and think, “well, that was easy” or “better than nothing.” I am guilty of doing this myself… But what about cheating a bit
In this short tutorial, you are going to learn how to assign metadata to a digital object. Information used to describe an object is called metadata. As librarians, we use metadata everyday to help patrons find library books. Can you
As New Hampshire moves forward with the DPLA project, libraries with existing collections may be wondering how to integrate their existing collections into future collections or new platforms. The ability to move collections comes down to three simple things: Having
As any good librarian can recite in their sleep, books originally published prior to 1923 are in the public domain and anything published after that date are not. Simple, right? We have been stuck in the 1923 mindset for so
A recent post to the librarians’ listserv got me thinking about crowdscourced digitization efforts. Is there a way to obtain good — or at least workable — images by a large quantity of people using the mobile technology they own? I