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First Contact: Establishing the USC Digital Library. Catherine Quinlan, Dean of the USC Libraries Hugh McHarg, Executive Director, Communications and Public Programming. Outline. The USC environment The Essential Library Mission and vision The USC Digital Library - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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First Contact:Establishing the USC Digital Library
Catherine Quinlan, Dean of the USC LibrariesHugh McHarg, Executive Director, Communications and Public Programming
Outline The USC environment
The Essential Library
Mission and vision
The USC Digital Library
Philosophy, infrastructure, practice
A look into the USC Digital Library
Basel Mission Image Archive, mashups, and outreach
The USC Environment Academic units
College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Graduate School
17 professional schools
Student profile Undergraduate: 16,500
Graduate and professional: 17,000
International students: 5,900—most of any U.S. university
Faculty and staff profile Full-time faculty: 3,200
Staff (50% time or more): 8,500
Examples of Major ResearchCenters and Institutes
Center on Public Diplomacy
Center for Religion and Civic Culture
East Asian Studies Center
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
U.S.-China Institute
The USC Libraries 22 libraries and information centers
200 faculty and staff members
250 student worker FTEs
4 million volumes
103,275 serial titles (print and electronic)
316,000 electronic books
3,192,538 visual items
Collections Highlights California and history of the American
West
Cinematic and performing arts
East Asian studies
Iberian and Latin American studies
Natural history
Philosophy
The USC Libraries will be an innovative, inspiring, and integral partner in the scholarly achievements of USC faculty, students, and staff.
In so doing, we actively contribute to the development of knowledge and the advancement of society.
The USC Libraries’ Vision
We will build:
A dynamic intellectual and physical environment that will attract and retain top-tier students, faculty, and staff and encourage the creativity necessary to support the global ambitions of USC.
The USC Libraries’ Vision (cont’d)
We will build:
Vital partnerships, through which we will develop interdisciplinary collections that support faculty teaching and research, student learning, and the cultivation of critical-thinking abilities.
The USC Libraries’ Vision (cont’d)
We will build:
An agile, progressive culture of ubiquitous service that connects our users with relevant information.
The USC Libraries’ Vision (cont’d)
We will build:
An appreciation of the value of past knowledge, in all its forms, and its role in informing the scholarship of the future.
The USC Libraries’ Vision (cont’d)
The USC Libraries’ Mission
The USC Libraries actively support the discovery, creation, and preservation of knowledge. We develop collections and services that support and encourage the academic endeavors of faculty, students, and staff; build a community of critical consumers of information; and help develop engaged world citizens.
Imperatives and Objectives
To ensure ready access to existing resources and to develop focused collections that support effective learning, exceptional teaching, and innovative research at USC.
Review digitization activities and develop a plan for future growth.
Digitization objective
Collections imperative
Task Force Findings Digital projects and services in silos
The Digital Archive
USC Institutional Repository
AIMS—Archiving, Indexing, and Metadata Services
Discrete faculty-driven projects; result of actively seeking to engage
Task Force Findings Needed a deeper relationship with
collection development, including:
Formal mechanism for review
More subject librarian participation
Unified framework for green-lighting projects—collections, technology, funds, faculty advocates
Task Force Findings Persistent questions among our users
What is the approval process for digital projects?
What are the libraries’ responsibilities? What are my responsibilities as a content owner?
Will you build—and maintain—a custom interface?
When I donate a collection, is it automatically digitized?
Digitization Philosophy A program of digitization, rather than a
digital archive
Digitized collections must be accessible through our primary catalog
Project decisions must be transparent and communicated to partners and within the libraries
Focus on accessibility and sustainability vs. customization, however…
Digitization Infrastructure
…build so that assets are retrievable from secondary interfaces
Currently using Documentum
Technical
Organizational
Formal Digital Library unit and with a director
Reports to the associate dean for collections
Digitization Practices Digital Library Selection Advisory Committee
Technical expertise
Subject knowledge
Metadata specialists
Established selection criteria Relevant to educational and research mission of USC
Legal right to provide online access
Inventory and metadata available
Feasible with existing or potentially obtainable resources
Status and documentation published online
State of the USC Digital Library2007 Digital
Archive Records: 125,307
Assets: 155,897
2009 Digital Library Records: 200,500
Assets: 255,93517 New Collections, Including:
Basel Mission images
Los Angeles Examiner
Russian satirical journals
Sea of Korea maps
A Look into the USC Digital Library
Basel Mission Image ArchiveDistributed Content ContributionMashups, Outreach, and Community
1.
USC Digital Library
digitallibrary.usc.edu
2.
BaselMissionPhotos
7.
AlternateInterface
Special ThanksMatt GainerDirector, USC Digital Library
Chris MendezWeb Applications Developer
Joyce OuchidaSenior Web Developer
Wayne ShoafHead, Technical Services
Tim StantonProject Manager
Jon VidarMultimedia Services Developer