PORTALS FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE :

APS SUBJECT GUIDESMichael Miller

American Philosophical Society

22 October 2011

APS LIBRARY WEBSITE

EAD FINDING AIDS

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WHY SUBJECT GUIDES?

Means of introduction to a manuscript library Improves access to collections Highlights important collections Encourages browsing in a closed-stack

environment Least effort Powerful searching tool

FROM PRINTED GUIDES TO TEXT ON A WEB

HTML SUBJECT GUIDES

OCR ERROR

MODERNIZING THE GUIDES

EXTENSIBLE TEXT FRAMEWORK (XTF)

UTILIZING ARCHIVISTS’ TOOLKIT

INTEGRATING GUIDES IN TO FINDING AIDS

IMPROVING METADATA FORMAT, CONTENT

Dublin Core LC & DACS

A LOOK AT THE NEW GUIDES…

ANTHROPOLOGY

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

QUANTUM PHYSICS

GENETICS

GENETICS – SUBJECT CORRECTIONS

Before… After…

NATIVE AMERICAN – CALL NUMBERS

Before… After…

NATIVE AMERICAN – FACETS

NATIVE AMERICAN – BIBLIOGRAPHY

EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY

EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY – SPLASH PAGE

CONCLUDING REMARKS…

SUBJECT GUIDE AS A PORTAL

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