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- 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 Project Annual Report for July 1, 1994-June 30, 1995McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 1995)
- 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.
- Survey of Four META-DATA CandidatesPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-04-09)You would have a difficult time finding a resource in a digital library without consulting some type of database that contains descriptions of each resource. The information used to describe a book, journal, article or other resource in such a database is called meta-data. There are many formats for encoding meta-data. This document presents one set of bibliographic data describing a single resource in four formats used in various projects related to digital libraries.
- Architecture Image ProjectPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-06-10)In the Spring of 1996, a group of Library faculty met with photographic services (the imaging group: Annette Burr, Gail McMillan, Gary Worley) to develop a plan to support the digitization, archiving, identification and long-term storage of slide collections. This group decided that they would launch a pilot project during the summer. Photographic Services would scan 200 slides place them on a server in Scholarly Communications. SCP staff would design and implement a prototype workflow, storage, retrieval and annotation mechanism using a metadata scheme developed by this group. This document describes a preliminary proposal for implementing the requested prototype. The system must be fully in place by late summer 1996 so that teaching faculty can use it to develop course materials for the fall.
- Online Course Materials: Electronic ReservePowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-09-11)Course Materials Online: Connecting the classroom with the library
- 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.
- Digital Libraries and Software AgentsPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1997)Digital libraries will need digital, or software, agents to perform many important tasks such as communication with the user, acquisition of new information and maintenance of the links to that information (assuming that it is external to the structure of the digital library). Fortunately software agents are a diverse breed and there are many different types of agents which can be used to perform those tasks.
- American Homespun for the President's House: Ellen Axson Wilson and the Decoration of the Blue Mountain RoomWilson, Kathleen Curtis (Woodrow Wilson House, 1998)
An Exhibition Organized by the Woodrow Wilson House, A National Trust Historic Site, October 23, 1997 - April 20, 1998.
As an artist and a southerner, Ellen Axson Wilson, the wife of the twenty-eighth president of the United States, saw first hand the expert craftsmanship of women during her travels to the North Carolina mountains and understood their struggle as artists and wage earners. By decorating the White House with handcrafted fabrics, she focused wide spread attention on the lives, financial needs, and talents of mountain women. The exhibition Homespun for the President's House - Ellen Axson Wilson and the Decoration of the Blue Mountain Room is a unique opportunity to look inside the most famous house in the land for a better understanding of the compassionate spirit of artist Ellen Axson Wilson and to view striking examples of early twentieth-century American hand weaving by two extremely gifted Appalachian women, Allie Josephine Mast and Elmeda McHargue Wallzer. - Scholarly Communications/Special Collections Department Annual Report: 1997/1998McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 1998)
- Long-term Course Planning ScenarioMosser, Dan (Virginia Tech, 1998-06)Dan Mosser teaches a course on History of the English Language (HEL). He has been developing this course over the last few years and is especially interested in multi-media resources, speech excerpts, speech analysis game, and so on. He spends several weeks every summer reviewing his resources and searching for new ones to incorporate...
- Research Faculty ScenarioFrance, Robert (Virginia Tech, 1998-12-09)Dr. Charity Miller is a specialist in history of technology. Today she is beginning a new research project in the history of photography. Dr. Miller is technically adept, as one might guess from her specialty, and has taken the time to load a VRML browser onto her high-end desktop computer. Thus, she interacts with the VT digital library through its virtual reality presentation mode, using keyboard and mouse...
- Digital Library and ArchivesMcMillan, Gail (Virginia Tech Libraries, 1999)
- Digital Library and Archives Annual Report 1998/1999McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University 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: 2000/2001McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2001)
- DLA Annual Report for 2001/2002(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2002)For the first time since the Scholarly Communications Project and the Special Collections Department merged, the Digital Library and Archives began to work as a cohesive unit. With all vacancies filled and the addition of term appointments, the department has had time to plan (see DLA Goals App. A) for the future instead of just reacting to current demands or crises. DLA preserved, organized, and made accessible historical and current resources, and provided reference, instruction, and access to the unique resources in our rare books, manuscript, and archival collections. In addition, DLA worked with the university community to help them create online resources and to use digital library resources and services. More ETDs and digital images were available through systems designed and maintained by the department. Like University Libraries, DLA is dedicated to meeting the university community’s information, curricular, and research needs wherever they are located. DLA collaborated with members of the university community to collectively position the university as a top-tier research institution.
- Digital Library and Archives annual report 2002/2003(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2003)
- Annual Report 2003/2004 for the Digital Library and Archives(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2004-07-04)