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Buried Treasure: Digitizing a Hidden Library Collection. Miraida Morales Rutgers University School of Communication & Information [email protected] @ MiraidaM on Twitter . The project: to build a digital library of heraldry design. Rutgers University. Princeton University. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Buried Treasure: Digitizing a Hidden Library Collection
Miraida Morales Rutgers University School of Communication & Information [email protected] @MiraidaM on Twitter
The project:to build a digital library of heraldry design
Rutgers University Princeton University Puerto Rico
The man:Roberto Beascoechea Lota
b. 1915-d. 2004
1956: went to work at the newly formed Institute of Puerto Rican Culture as a historian and advisor
Eventually to become Director of the National Library of Puerto Rico
The collectionUnprocessed
Organized in folders by municipality only
Handmade sketches, handwritten notes, bibliographies, correspondence, invitations to official unveilings, telegrams, drafts of heraldry description, glossaries of heraldic terms, official memoranda
Sketch of flag of Vieques date: August 10, 1975signed by RBL
Cataño, Sketches for coat of arms & flagdate: unknown
Cataño, studies for coat of armsdate: unknown
The process
PlanningInventory
& Selection
Platform, metadata scheme
DigitizationUploading files
& metadata creation
Prototype & Digital Library
3 months
SupportTools:
HP Scanjet N9120 Document Flatbed ScannerExternal Hard DriveGreenstone ManualOnline resources
Personnel:
2 librarians5 full-time staff members2 part-time staff members2 IT staff, shared
ChallengesBudget: $0
Government holidays: 5 in July alone
AC system in the Library broke
No access to scanner or hard drive until last week in June
Government closures due to tropical storms
The challenges
Tropical Storm IreneTropical Storm Emily
The outcome
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/
Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/bge/index.htm
Heráldica Municipal http://icp-5.icp.gobierno.pr/greenstone/cgi-bin/library.cgi?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=herldica&l=en&w=utf-8
Looking aheadGrant proposal to:
• Upgrade interface
• Develop better resource discovery
• Bilingual access points
• Grow the collection
• Provide guides to the collection for different users: teachers, students, artists, researchers, children, general public
• Develop & carry out a marketing strategy
¡Gracias!
Guide to Images & ReferencesBeascoechea Lota, R. (1975). Boceto a color de la bandera de Vieques. Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico.
Beaschoechea Lota, R. (n.d.) Bocetos lineales del escudo y la bandera de Cataño. Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico.
Beascoechea Lota, R. (n.d.) Bocetos lineales a mano para el diseño del escudo de Cataño. Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico.
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Rutgers University. (2011, October 7). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_ University# Coat_of_arms
Scherer, R. (2011, August 2). Tropical storm Emily moves west in Caribbean. Will it hit US Coast? The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved from http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/ 2011/0802/Tropical-storm-Emily-moves-west-in-Caribbean.-Will-it-hit-US-coast
Torres. (1965, March 25). Junta de directores del Instituto Puertorriqueño de Cultura Hispánica. In El mundo, 2nd ed. Retrieved from http://bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ELM4068& CISOPTR= 426&CISOBOX=1&REC=14