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Item All In For the Bears: The History and Impact of the Baylor University Libraries Athletics Archive(2015-04-27) Stuhr, Darryl; Ames, EricWhen members of the Digital Projects Group in Baylor’s Electronic Library first sat down with legendary football head coach Grant Teaff, they couldn't have predicted the scope and impact the resulting Baylor University Libraries Athletics Archive (BULAA) would have on preserving university history, raising funds and promoting morale with alumni. Darryl Stuhr – Assistant Director for Digital Projects – and Eric Ames – Curator of Digital Collections - will address the history of the project, its workflow and mechanics, and its impact on donors, Bears supporters and historians around the world. Attendees will gain insight on how to manage a multi-source digital collection, tips on selecting outsource service providers and soliciting support from nontraditional givers.Item Integrating the Classroom and the Digitization Center: An Innovative Approach(2013-06-28) Ames, Eric; Baylor UniversityFollowing several successful years of building increasingly larger, highly impactful digital collections, the Baylor University Digital Projects Group chose the Spring 2013 semester to take the next step in its development by creating a new graduate level course for the Department of Museum Studies called Technology and Outreach in Museums. Taught by Eric Ames, Curator of Digital Collections and a lecturer in the department, the course is an innovative approach to integrating classroom lectures and philosophical exploration of the topic with hands-on, intensive training on current digitization and outreach methods using the resources of the Electronic Library’s Riley Digitization Center. The purpose of the course is to give graduate students the opportunity to select materials from non-digitized archival collections; curate the materials for inclusion in a digital exhibit/collection; digitize the materials using the scanning equipment of the Riley Center; create a digital exhibit; and formulate a marketing plan to promote the exhibit to scholars, faculty and the general public. This presentation will focus on the development, proceedings and lessons learned over the course of the semester. Ames will also present tips for institutions interested in following a similar path, including how to manage the interests and skill levels of 15 graduate students in a working digitization center, challenges to implementing technological solutions and students’ perspectives on the course. If possible, a graduate student from the course will be invited to attend and lend his/her perspective on the course.Item Integrating the Classroom and the Digitization Center: An Innovative Approach(2013-03-21) Ames, Eric; Baylor UniversityFollowing several successful years of building increasingly larger, highly impactful digital collections, the Baylor University Digital Projects Group chose the Spring 2013 semester to take the next step in its development by creating a new graduate level course for the Department of Museum Studies called Technology and Outreach in Museums. Taught by Eric Ames, Curator of Digital Collections and a lecturer in the department, the course is an innovative approach to integrating classroom lectures and philosophical exploration of the topic with hands-on, intensive training on current digitization and outreach methods using the resources of the Electronic Library’s Riley Digitization Center. The purpose of the course is to give graduate students the opportunity to select materials from non-digitized archival collections; curate the materials for inclusion in a digital exhibit/collection; digitize the materials using the scanning equipment of the Riley Center; create a digital exhibit; and formulate a marketing plan to promote the exhibit to scholars, faculty and the general public. This presentation will focus on the development, proceedings and lessons learned over the course of the semester. Ames will also present tips for institutions interested in following a similar path, including how to manage the interests and skill levels of 15 graduate students in a working digitization center, challenges to implementing technological solutions and students’ perspectives on the course. If possible, a graduate student from the course will be invited to attend and lend his/her perspective on the course.Item “This is totally going on our blog.” Using WordPress and Edublogs to Enhance Access to Digital Collections(2013-03-26) Ames, Eric; Baylor UniversityFrom its first post on November 9, 2011 to the present, the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections Blog has been access 10,630 times by users around the world. Increasingly, the blog serves as a major entry point into the collection, with users’ Google searches leading them to its posts detailing everything from in-depth looks at a particular digital collection to professional musings and analysis of the processes behind the creation of digital collections. This poster presentation will provide an in-depth look at how the Digital Projects Group uses the blog to achieve a number of goals, such as: Providing context for collections Establishing a resource for small museums and archives to receive information on digitization trends and processes Presenting unique stories and items from the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections Serving as a central clearinghouse for information related to the DPG The poster presentation will be of interest to institutions that are considering starting a blog in conjunction with their digital collections; institutions that are currently using a blog but are looking for new ways to utilize them; and anyone interested in how to mine existing digital collections for stories to present via a blog.