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Item Challenges and Opportunities: A Library Directors' Panel Discussion(2013-04-29) Anderson, William; Dyal, Donald; Shupala, Christine; Ferrier, Douglas; McQuesten, Pamela; Heath, Joan; Texas Tech University; Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Texas A&M International University; Texas State University; Southwestern University; University of Texas at AustinA panel consisting of several heads of Texas academic libraries will discuss the pressing issues facing university libraries today. The panel discussion will be led by UT i-School faculty member William Anderson and will include leaders from a representative sample of higher education institutions across the state. Possible topics touched on in this free-flowing discussion may include digital preservation and data curation as well as larger trends in higher education and scholarly communication.Item Collaboration in Education: Creating a Searchable Database for Dissertations(2015-04-27) Brown, Sarah Engledow; Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiTexas A&M University Corpus Christi is a member of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate. This is a consortium of colleges who offer the Ed.D. degree. As part of the CPED, the College of Education asked me to help create a database of dissertations for this project using our Institutional Repository. In this presentation, I describe the process of putting this project together, including challenges and victories, from the beginning of the project to its publicationItem The Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers: Providing Access to Records of an Under-documented(2017-05-24) Cobourn, Alston Brake; Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiI propose a 7 minute presentation on a project undertaken by TAMU-CC to bring awareness and provide increased access to an important collection, the Dr. Hector P. Garcia papers, which documents his work with and life as a part of the historically under-documented Mexican-American community in South Texas. I will discuss how Special Collections and Archives worked with History Associates to guide their processing of the 600 linear foot collection and creation of a focused Omeka-based digital exhibit. The library also worked with the campus Marketing and Communications & Public Affairs departments to spread the word about the online exhibit through articles on the school website and press releases. We plan to add more access by ingesting all of the digitized items to TAMU-CC's TDL DSpace repository and linking to this content in the collection’s online finding aid. We plan to build upon the excitement this project has generated by next addressing the papers of his sister, Dr. Clotilde P. Garcia, who was also a Corpus Christi doctor and social activist. I am currently developing a processing plan for her 107 linear foot collection and plan to build a focused digital exhibit after I complete processing. We hope to again utilize the TDL to expand digital access.Item Establishing a Land Surveying Digital Map Library: Review of Process and Technologies Created and Leveraged(2016-05-25) Smith, Richard; Hodges, Ann; Holland, Seneca; Nguyen, Son; Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiThe Special Collections and Archives Department in the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi contains nine land surveying map collections. These map collections contain tens of thousands of land surveying maps and documents of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, and the surrounding Texas region from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. These historic map collections are currently only available to in-person library visitors, restricting the availability of these maps to only those who are able to travel to Corpus Christi. The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI), in collaboration with the Mary and Jeff Bell Library, are scanning these map collections so an online digital map library can be established. Currently, over 28,000 documents have been scanned and catalogued from two of the nine map collections. During the course of scanning and cataloging the map collections, we have purchased a large-format pass-through scanner, large-format flatbed scanner, and a book scanner. Additionally, we have developed scanning and cataloging procedures, an automatic scan cropping application, a web-based cataloging system, and a prototype web-based spatial search portal. To publish the map collection to the public, we have chosen DSpace, hosted by the Texas Digital Library, as our publishing platform. In order to publish our map collection from our cataloging system to DSpace, we have utilized the DSpace REST API to create a custom solution that allows us to publish directly from within our cataloging system. Additionally, as we are spatially locating the maps to their locations on Earth, we have created a prototype spatial search portal that links to the items in DSpace, thereby allowing the public to find maps in the collection by dragging a search box on a web map. The focus of this presentation will be a review of the entire project up to its current status. The review will cover our scanning hardware, cataloging software, scanning procedures, cataloging procedures, use of DSpace REST API for publishing documents, and the prototype spatial search portal. The presentation will be a mix of high-level discussion, system demonstration, and technical explanation.Item Establishing a Land Surveying Digital Map Library: Review of Process and Technologies Created and Leveraged(2017-05-24) Smith, Richard; Rudowsky, Catherine; Hodges, Anne; Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiThe Special Collections and Archives Department in the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi contains nine land surveying map collections. These map collections contain tens of thousands of land surveying maps and documents of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, and the surrounding Texas region from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. These historic map collections are currently only available to in-person library visitors, restricting the availability of these maps to only those who are able to travel to Corpus Christi. The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI), in collaboration with the Mary and Jeff Bell Library, is scanning these map collections so an online digital map library can be established. Currently, over 66,000 items have been scanned and cataloged from two of the nine map collections. During the course of scanning and cataloging the map collections, we have developed scanning and cataloging procedures, an automatic scan cropping application, a web-based cataloging system (BandoCat), a web-based document transcription system, and a web-based map georectification system. To publish the map collection to the public, we have chosen DSpace, hosted by the Texas Digital Library, as our publishing platform. We have utilized the DSpace REST API to create a custom solution that allows us to publish directly from within our cataloging system. The focus of this presentation will be a review of the recent progress on the project up to its current status. The review will cover our scanning procedures, cataloging procedures, use of DSpace REST API for publishing documents, and our cataloging, transcription, and georectification software. The presentation will be a mix of high-level discussion, system demonstration, and technical explanation.