When You Are Falling, Dive: Launching a Thesis Digitization Project

Autor: Isaak, David, Chang, Tiffany, Pask, Claire, Carrillo, Avril, Beiriger, Angie
Rok vydání: 2018
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6852470
Popis: At Reed College, every student must complete a year-long thesis project and deposit a print copy of their final thesis in the Library. Though a descriptive catalog record (title, author, advisor, and department) exists for each of these 17,000 theses, students and faculty have trouble discovering relevant theses and tracking the evolution of previous research projects. An electronic theses collection does exist, but participation is voluntary and deposit rates low. This spring, the Library embarked on a digital scholarship pilot project to determine what resources and workflows will be necessary to digitize new incoming theses as well as retrospectively digitizing the print collection. This talk will cover both the conceptual and practical challenges of a thesis digitization project including.This presentation was given July 20 at NWIRUG in Portland, OR.
Databáze: OpenAIRE