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Item AtoM-izing Archival Collections(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-18) Richardson, MatthewLaunched in March 2020 (really!), the McGovern Historical Center (MHC)’s archival management system utilizes Artefactual’s AtoM (Access to Memory) application to provide access to archival finding aids as well as digitized and born digital assets. This short presentation will walk through the MHC’s workflow for creating archival description, importing it into AtoM via CSV, and making it available online.This lightning talk will give particular emphasis to the workflow as it relates to digital objects. The CSV upload includes links to Amazon S3, where the MHC stores its access files. From there, AtoM automatically generates thumbnail representations, which appear in-line with the archival description and link out to the full-size access files.While nothing is perfect, the MHC’s systems and workflow offer efficiencies for a small staff and seamless discoverability for users.Item Session 2E | Carry On: One Digitization Lab’s Journey Through Temporary Displacement(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Pankonien, Allie; McIntosh, MarciaBefore COVID-19 pandemic made work-at-home arrangements a normality, the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) upgrades at the University of North Texas Library required the displacement of the Digital Projects Lab staff and students from their lab for an estimated six weeks. With little access to digitization equipment, the lab planned to continue running during that period. By presenting the preparation and planning for the move, the logistics of the transition, and the results from the experience, the authors hope to share their strategies for digitization lab mobility and continued, off-site productivity.Item Session 2E | How it’s Going: Creating and Modifying Camera Capture Stations at Texas State University(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Mazzei, ErinIn 2017, Texas State University received a TSLAC TexTreasures Grant, funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, to digitize at-risk photographic negatives in the University Archives. Since then, tens of thousands of negatives and documents have been captured through the two custom camera stations purchased through this grant and a number of additional changes to the original configuration were added to help improve function. This presentation will cover the on-going development of the stations themselves, including an overview of the benefits and risks of implementing a custom camera station, as well as lessons learned.Item Session 2E | Improving Image Processing Through Iteration and Automation(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Jones, Jerrell; Watkins, SeanUH Libraries has been building a robust and flexible digital collections ecosystem since 2016. In 2020, UH Libraries launched its digital collections ecosystem that supports efficient digital collections management, effective digital preservation, and integration with library systems. These goals encompassed new tooling in the image processing workflow to help manage the demand at scale and facilitate the production of high-quality output. UH Libraries has implemented command-line based scripts to address inefficient legacy workflows. We will give examples of what workflows were created, tools developed and utilized for key processes, the progression of these tools through the digital projects agile team, and automation developed into UH Libraries digital projects management application, Mason. We will also examine some of the transformative knowledge gained during these iterative processes that contribute to a more efficient production environment. As UH Libraries continues its migration of collections into a new repository, these tools continue to be applied and improvements are being made to the image processing workflow and its tools.Item Session 2E | Metadata Works From Home: How Student Workers Continued to Work While Increasing Collection Accessibility(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Vinson, Emily; Weidner, AndrewTo keep our on-site student staff gainfully employed in early 2020, as the realities of the coronavirus pandemic came into sharp focus, a University of Houston Libraries team hatched a plan for student employees to create high quality closed captions for hundreds of digitized archival films and videos. The project team developed training materials and began working with twenty-six students from six units across the libraries within two weeks of the campus closure. This presentation will discuss the project design, unique challenges of training and communicating with student employees, and the outcomes of the effort.Item Session 2E | Pandemic problem solving: creating a transcription workflow process for student employees on the fly(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Franklin, AlyssaI will discuss how we overcame the hurdles of rapidly switching to remote work modalities, and created work-from-home transcription projects from scratch to keep our department’s students employed. In March 2020, UTSA announced all non-essential employees would immediately move to remote work, this included all student employees at UTSA Libraries. Special Collections had 5 student clerks at the time, whose entire job duties had been tied to a physical presence on campus. My supervisor, Julianna Barrera-Gomez, and myself, rapidly addressed this issue through a whirlwind transcript workflow and process creation. We researched best practices, created training modules, and utilized Google Drive to coordinate with all of our students, and to organize their submissions. We took this a step further by creating secondary review processes that the students could complete themselves, and we were able to generate transcripts for dozens of digital videos and text-based documents in our digital library, increasing accessibility.Item Session 3G | A Consortium Approach to Library Publishing Via the Open Journal System and the Texas Digital Library(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Hight, Alexa; Herbert, BruceTDL supports Electronic Journals, where faculty members, libraries, and universities can produce refereed, open-access scholarly journals, ensuring the availability of important scholarship to researchers across the world. TDL Journals are powered by Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source journal management and publication software produced by the Public Knowledge Project. In 2019, the TDL OJS User Group was formed. This Group is comprised of library liaisons for campus journals. In this talk we will discuss the function of the user group, as well as the costs and outcomes associated with a consortium approach to library publishing through the OJS system.Item Session 3G | Collaborating to Build Web Archives in Texas(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Ko, Lauren; Manning, Mary; Rojas, KatieA collaboration-focused subcommittee of TDL’s Web Archiving Texas Interest Group (WATXIG) will present their work gathering data about the web archiving interests, practices, and tools used in Texas. The working group has also explored tools for site and seed nomination as a means to facilitate collaborative collecting. Understanding what others are collecting identifies gaps and highlights underrepresented topics, allowing institutions to build more diverse and geographically representative collections. We will also share information about the other work that WATXIG is doing, including an Archive-It discount available to TDL members, and how you can help us shape web archiving in Texas.Item Session 3G | Institutional Commitments to Open Access in US Land Grants: A Policy Analysis(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Potvin, Sarah; Arant-Kaspar, WendiThe land grant mission to provide accessible public education parallels the values around open access. But relatively few land grants have passed open access policies. This study considers the intersection of open access policies and land grant institutions in the United States. It identifies formally adopted policies at the institutional level and analyzes both adopted policies and institutional types.Item Session 3G | Providing Broader Access: Texas State Retrospective ETD Digitization Project(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Peters, Todd; Waugh, Laura; Mazzei, Erin; Long, JasonThis presentation will briefly describe the modifications to the DSpace repository software to selectively restrict access to theses without a license agreement, adding a banner display message for restricted items, and creating a linked form for copyright holders to grant permission for theses to be made available open access. Workflows will be discussed including scripts to convert MARC records into Dublin Core metadata and the packaging of metadata and image files into DSpace submission information packages (SIP) for batch loading into DSpace. Post ingestion metadata editing and controlled vocabulary management will also be discussed.Item Session 3G | Ready for Takeoff: A Demonstration of the Integrated Digital Ecosystem at UH Libraries(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Scott, BethanyThe Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Development Team at the University of Houston Libraries has reached an important milestone in building its integrated digital access and preservation ecosystem. After years of infrastructure and DAMS development, the team released this next generation digital system in 2020. Presenters will share an overview of the technology stack and demonstrate the features and functionalities of this system which include integration of access, preservation, and finding aid systems; download and access controls; and more.Item Session 3I | A Place for Discord: Pivoting live events to digital platforms in the age of COVID (and beyond?)(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Covington, Elle; Parker, Katy; Bastone, GinaThe COVID-induced scramble to pivot to virtual spaces has forced innovative and creative implementation of digital tools. The standard tools have left many in the library community Zoomed out, leading us to explore other avenues to fulfill the ongoing need for online-only library events. Out of a desire to continue annually held Wikipedia edit-a-thons in this new virtual domain, we decided to shift to Discord, an online collaborative chat platform originally created for gamers and popular with today’s students. On March 11, nearly a year after the shutdown, we combined two Wikipedia edit-a-thons into a same-day, two-channel, side-by-side virtual event.Item Session 3I | Beyond the Reading Room: Virtual Archival Engagement with Interactive Visualizations(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Hetrick, EmmaIn this talk, I address a key issue faced by many university archives right now--when in-person visits aren’t available, how can students engage with collections? In Fall 2020, I used metadata for over 15,000 texts in the Harry Ransom Center’s Comedias Sueltas and Spanish Theater collection to create an interactive data visualization with Tableau software featuring the collection’s authors, publishers, and translators. Interactive visualizations enable archival exploration and instruction that center student agency and address barriers to archival access. Ultimately, I argue, this type of virtual engagement with the archive should continue to be expanded even after archives reopen.Item Session 3I | Celebrating 100 Years of Service through Digital Collections, Primary Sources, Exhibits, and Maps: Community Story Telling through Digital Archives(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Williams, Cecilia; Grieco, Alyssa; Rivera, Terrin; Kowalski, JessicaIn 2021, the Harris County Public Library celebrates 100 years of service to the residents of the largest county in Texas. As part of its year-long celebration, HCPL launched a Digital Archive which hosts a collection of photographs, documents, scrapbooks, videos, and oral histories documenting the story of HCPL. This presentation will focus on how the Quartex platform allows us to combine primary documents with storytelling through the exhibition feature and how a custom map visualization of the over 200+ locations served by HCPL during its first 100 years makes history come alive.Item Session 3I | Taking Control: Our Journey to an Open Reading Landscape(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Peterson, ChristineLibraries are part of a unique moment in history which unites broad technology adoption, readily-available technical training, widespread use of the Internet, and support of openness and equitable access. Columbia University, New York University, Amigos Library Services and other institutions are using these as a base to advance open reading environments through SimplyE, an IMLS-funded project. Open source initiatives like SimplyE and open standards will allow all involved - commercial software vendors, publishers, libraries, consortia - to innovate. In this lightning talk, I will highlight progress in SimplyE within academic libraries and how it fits within the broader reading landscape.