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- Digital Images for the Virginia Tech Digital LibraryMcMillan, Gail; Burr, Annette; Worley, Gary M. (Virginia Tech, 1996-03-20)All images photographed or copied by a unit of Information Systems will be scanned and contributed to the Virginia Tech Digital Library. The digital images will be browsable and findable through word searching textual descriptors. The university community will be able to view digital images online according to fair use guidelines for nonprofit, academic libraries. They will be available for faculty to incorporate in their course materials and to students for study and research purposes. Outside the university community, not all digital images will be accessible via the Internet; some will only be available at library workstations and campus computer labs. There will be unlimited Internet access to digital images when the university owns the copyright. No one will be charged a fee to view thumbnails, but there will be a charge to have a reproduction made and this will have implications for the electronic billing tactical plan.
- Digital Library and ArchivesMcMillan, Gail (Virginia Tech Libraries, 1999)
- Digital Library and ArchivesMcMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2000)Online access to information increasingly spans the gap between traditional and innovative resources that are the Digital Library and Archives. Changing our name from Scholarly Communications Project was not too difficult and with excellent students we were able to unify the department's Web presence with a new department logo and uniform footers. This year we increased the number of Web sites hosting information; the usability of several DLA systems such as the IAWA Biographic Database; ETD processing, the VT ImageBase; and survey data gathering and results displays;. One huge advantage of the survey system is that it continually gathers data and tabulates results as each survey is completed, providing immediate feed-back. This would be particularly invaluable if there was more time and staff to implement what we learn from DLA clients! Among our major acquisitions was the Judge William M. Harris Collection of correspondence, poetry, and maps; the Peacock-Harper Culinary Collection; and new additions to the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
- Digital Library and Archives Annual Report 1998/1999McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 1999)
- Digital Library and Archives Annual Report: 2000/2001McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2001)
- DLA Annual Report 2004/05McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2005)
- DLA Annual Report 2005/06McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2006)
- Report of the Scholarly Communications Task ForceMcMillan, Gail; Metz, Paul; Powell, James; Zarnosky, Maggie (Virginia Tech, 1994-05-10)This report was distributed at the May 12th meeting of the Library Administrative Council (LAC) and put on the agenda for discussion at its next meeting. On May 19, 1994 this report was discussed, many of the questions it raised were answered and all of its recommendations were approved for implementation. This version of the report contains annotations (made June 24, 1994), especially to include answers to questions posed, and describes further activities of this task force.
- Scholarly Communications and Special Collections Annual Report for 1996/97McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 1997)Both units of this department focused on improving user access to unique materials or publications otherwise only available in paper. This lead not only to increased interaction with external library users, but also to better access for the library’s walk-in clients. Special Collections accessioned, processed, and prepared guides to collections; participated in collection development for the rare book, reference, and manuscript/archival collections; staffed the Reference Desk and answered questions from telephone, fax, mail, and e-mail; created and maintained, edited and made significant changes to the guides to special collections and contributed to new digital image resources, moving the prototype ImageBase to a production-scale resource for worldwide, networked access; created exhibitions of unique library resources to inform and attract users; and preserved the rare book, manuscript and archival collections for the future. The Scholarly Communications Project’s growing national reputation led to new scholarly online publications and formalization of experimental procedures such as digitizing and identifying images and archiving electronic theses and dissertations. ETD processing was scaled up, resulting in approximately 200 new titles being network-accessible in 1996/97. Eight new journal editors contact SCP during this reporting period, resulting in the online publication of four new journals, with at least two nearly ready for publication.
- Scholarly Communications Project Annual Report for July 1, 1994-June 30, 1995McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 1995)
- Scholarly Communications/Special Collections Department Annual Report: 1997/1998McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 1998)