2012 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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Item The Sissy Farenthold Papers Digitization Project: Creating an Online Exhibit Through Cross-Departmental Collaboration(2012-05-25) Bastone, Gina; Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice; Dolph Briscoe Center for American History; University of Texas at AustinFrances T. “Sissy” Farenthold is a well-known, important figure in Texas politics and the national women’s movement. She also spent much of the last four decades working on global human rights issues. The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice partnered with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History to identify, organize, and digitize Farenthold’s papers relating to human rights. The Rapoport Center has created an online exhibit focusing on Farenthold’s human rights work, placing it in the context of her life as a lawyer, legislator, activist, and important mentor to numerous women. It is aimed at human rights and women’s rights researchers and historians, as well as a more general audience that is interested in Farenthold and the issues she is so passionate about. The Rapoport Center has completed a website featuring a selection of scanned documents from Farenthold’s papers, as well as video interviews with Farenthold and Genevieve Vaughan, her collaborator on a number of projects. The scanned documents and interviews focus on Farenthold’s work with the anti-nuclear peace movement of the 1980s, particularly her efforts with women’s groups for nuclear disarmament and for women’s human rights. The website includes contextual and historical background information about Farenthold, the organizations with which she worked, and the larger historical events of the time (such as significant peace movement protests and the Reagan-Gorbachev Summits). You can view the website here: http://www.utexas.edu/law/centers/humanrights/farenthold/ In order to bring this project to life, multiple departments across the University of Texas have played a role, making it a truly collaborative effort. The project initially started as a capstone project for a Master’s student in the School of Information. Faculty and staff from the School of Information and the Center Women and Gender Studies gave the student consultation and advisement. Support staff from the Rapoport Center, the Briscoe Center, and the School of Law had a hand in making the website, through help with back-end site design, photo and document scanning, and video editing. Several undergraduate interns worked on every step of the project, from an initial inventory of the papers to the final proofreading of the website copy. Our presentation will focus on the history of our project and a short demo of the site. We will also share some lessons we learned from the process. Here are a few of those lessons: • Know what you are capable of and what you cannot do • Do not be afraid t ask for help • Be sensitive to others’ workloads but also be assertive • Be open to change – every draft and iteration can be improved • When working in a non-profit setting (such as in archives and the human rights sector), utilize free resources as much as possibleItem Stream it! Providing a Video Reserves Service at UT Austin(2012-05-25) Harper, Georgia; Schwartz, Laura; University of Texas at AustinIntroduction/background. For over a decade the UT Libraries has provided the Butler School of Music faculty and students with a well-regarded, heavily-used streaming audio reserves service. During these same 10 years, The Fine Arts Library has tried to create an analogous video service, but it has proved to be much more challenging. We have finally identified the hurdles and how we are going to jump them. These hurdles include copyright, setting up an infrastructure, and identifying equipment and staffing. Need. Faculty affiliated with the College of Fine Arts are heavy video users. In 2009 the Audio Visual Library was integrated into the Fine Arts Library and the faculty booking service came along with it. This service processes over 2300 requests per year for 289 faculty. Some videos are shown to over 1000 students per semester. It makes little sense to have so many faculty members all competing for the same video to show in their classroom when it’s possible to make these videos available to anyone at any time. Furthermore, with services like Netflix Streaming, Amazon Instant Video, and iTunes Video, patrons expect libraries to provide a similar service. And finally, faculty come from institutions where streaming video is available, places like Northwestern University and the University of Tennessee. They are very disappointed when we can’t offer similar services. Current Status. In 2009, the UT Libraries beta tested streaming video reserves. Faculty involved in the test wanted us to continue to offer these services and we do so, but only for a very select number of faculty. Challenges • Copyright/Fair Use. We must establish a reasonable fair use standard that faculty, staff and students understand and accept, so we can provide services in a way that meets our faculty’s needs while also respecting the interests of copyright owners. We expect that if we must decline a request, the reasons should be clear and alternative access should be easily and cheaply available to students through commercial services such as Netflix, Amazon and iTunes. • Infrastructure. At this point in time, vendors are offering streaming files and services for which we do not have the proper infrastructure to support. The Libraries is, however, setting up a workflow and infrastructure that will allow us to acquire, catalog and serve streaming video files. Next, we will tackle the infrastructure for a streaming video reserves service. • Funding for equipment and staff. Fortunately the UT Libraries has a workflow in place to digitize video. When the limited service we offer now is opened to more faculty, our equipment and staffing capacity will have to be evaluated. Way forward/conclusion. The pressure is mounting. Other faculty wish to be included in the service we offer only a few right now. Ten years is long enough to “be in development.” I hope to say this year that this is a service we provide to all faculty at UT Austin.