2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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Item Accessing the Inaccessible: Capturing and re-purposing metadata prior to digitization to ensure adequate description and access(2018-05-16) Pierce, Gregory; Niño, AnaIn October of 2017, UNT Special Collections embarked on a large-scale digitization project involving a portion of the highly requested A/V materials from the NBC-5/KXAS Television News collection, using a third-party vendor. Until 2017, portions of the collection were digitized through discrete patron requests, or smaller projects carried out during downtime. This new project involved digitizing the collection s entire UMatic tape holdings; roughly 2,000 tapes covering broadcast news stories aired between 1976 and 1986. The UMatic holdings were prioritized for digitization due to preservation concerns about their age, degradation, and the decreasing availability of UMatic tape players. Consisting of over 140 boxes, with an average of 14 tapes per box, each tape case contains one UMatic tape and one or more handwritten index cards with descriptions of the tape s content. We estimate this project will produce over 50,000 individual news clips for ingestion. How does an institution efficiently and adequately describe over 50,000 digital objects with enough access points to make them searchable to patrons, including film and television producers wishing to license footage on restrictive deadlines? The estimated time it would take to upload, describe, and publish these clips on the Portal to Texas History, is nearly 3 years. How can we ensure access and searchability in the meantime? The estimated time it would take to upload, describe, and publish these clips on the Portal to Texas History is nearly 3 years. This presentation provides a detailed look at how we used snapshots to help repurpose metadata, then harnessed linked data tools in Excel and WikiMedia to create access to tape content titles. We will talk about prioritizing content access during digitization and how those priorities evolved as we realized the full scope of the collection. We ll discuss how we created the initial database using linked data in Excel, transferring that data to our in-house wiki space using WikiMedia, as well as how the system is being used today. More importantly, we will discuss how capturing and making physical metadata accessible during digitization of the physical objects can increase efficiency in other digitization projects.Item Archivematica Across Texas(2018-05-16) Buckner, SeanThis poster depicts the academic institutions in Texas currently using the Archivematica digital preservation software to preserve digital content. The poster displays each institution overlaid on a map with key information from each regarding their implementation(s), content preserved, workflows, and/or points of contact. The poster also briefly presents the Texas Archivematica Users Group (aka A-TEX) and explains the group s purpose, intent, and online presence. Lastly, a brief description of Archivematica is offered for those interested in learning more about the system.Item Beyond the Pages: Early Printed Books in Digital Collections(2018-05-16) Laufersweiler, BarbaraFor early printed books, somewhere in the middle ground between simple image display and multispectral imaging, between metadata searches and virtual reality experiences, there are practical, low-cost, high-impact practices available for digitization and in digital collections. They create new possibilities for digital library users to engage with those early printed books more fully, opening the books to new scholarship and new engagement. The standard approach to digital presentation of early printed books for scholarly and other users continues to duplicate online the experience of paging through a book (a page turner interface) and reading through its descriptive record (a metadata presentation). Expanded scope brings access to higher resolution images, full text files, linked and harvestable metadata, multi image widgets, and citable permanent links. Yet none of this work enables scholars or other users to easily engage with sufficient information about books and their history - and certainly not consistently from one digital collection to the next. The challenge is primarily one of metadata, and secondarily of digitization and presentation - for both textual and visual data about a book. In addition to the information in a high resolution image and a well researched catalog record, researchers interested in the history of books want access to diverse descriptive metadata not routinely presented, and sometimes not recorded. That metadata ranges from ownership history, multiple works bound together, and binding style to the presence of annotations, printer's devices, tipped in plates, volvelles, watermarks, and so on. Recording, presentation, and exposure of most such metadata would be a relatively straightforward extension of current practices and current technologies. For example, much of the image-level metadata could be recorded by trained undergraduate employees during digitization. In addition to metadata, some visual information is not commonly gathered at all. Two examples are text-block edges and watermarks, neither of which is digitized routinely, and both of which are invaluable to the interested researcher. When and how do we digitize them? Where do we present them - within the set of standard images? Appended to that set? Separately? Such digitization is not technically difficult and in fact is quite cost-effective to add to routine digitization. Once digitized and noted in the descriptive metadata, such information in digital collections becomes accessible to researchers working with early printed books. Another kind of information in digital collections is images of the same object (or page) taken at different times, perhaps years apart, or with different equipment or different lighting. This begins to look like a dataset, which can be of very high interest to researchers as well as conservators and preservation staff. In digital collections, the practice and policy could become to include multiple images of the same object along with appropriate technical and descriptive metadata. I will present specific examples and recommendations for low-cost, high-impact practices for digitization and digital collections. To the extent such practices are adopted, digital collections can provide a great deal more information about early printed books, opening them more fully to the world in practical, straightforward ways.Item Birthing Coetzee s Digital Archive(2018-05-16) Adams, AbbyJ. M. Coetzee s global reputation rests on his literary output, for which he received a Nobel in 2003. Before he embarked on a career as a scholar and writer, the South African-born author was a computer programmer in the early years of the industry s development, working on one of the most advanced programming projects in Britain in the mid 1960s. While readers of Coetzee may be familiar with these experiences from their description in his second fictional autobiography Youth (2002), Coetzee s role on the Atlas 2 project and his sustained interest in computing across his academic and literary career have been largely ignored by researchers to date. This is, we hope, about to change, thanks to Coetzee s digital archive being made available to scholars. Held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Coetzee s papers stretch to 58 linear feet of printed material and are regularly consulted by researchers. In the fall of 2017, his born digital materials, including over 100 floppy disks and various email correspondence, have also been opened for research. In this talk, the speaker discusses the process and decisions entailed in making Coetzee s born digital materials available from the perspective of a digital archivist. The speaker will outline her process for data recovery, preservation and description, and the discovery and access methods she employed. Offering an example of current practice around the preservation of and access to born digital materials, Coetzee s archive also represents an important use case, stretching as it does across 60 years of digital innovation, for how a large hybrid collection can provide researchers with a more complete picture of a creator's life and career than the born digital or analog materials alone can provide.Item Box of Chocolates: Surfacing Unique Collections in Small-Bite Form(2018-05-16) Flaxbart, JeniferThe University of Texas Libraries (UTL) is undertaking an approach to small-scale digital exhibition projects with the goal of surfacing a broad range of unique collections while minimizing workflow impacts on the Libraries IT and digitization infrastructure. The Box of Chocolates approach serves the purpose of introducing a tempting variety of content bonbons to scholars, seeking to both inform their awareness of lesser known content and inspire and enrich related research. Examples may include out-of-copyright Ottoman Turkish texts, Artists Books, South Asian collection content, rare Israeli Cinema periodical content and other image-rich collections, making content from underrepresented and under acknowledged communities, voices, and perspectives available via a web site or Google search for the first time. UTL s Digital Projects Cross Functional Team, comprised of colleagues from across the Libraries, is creating two tools to aid this effort. The tools are a digital project deconstructed overview and a template for small-scale Omeka digital exhibition construction outlining the steps required to create a morsel-like exhibition, the essence of a collection in 10 to 15 images or related files with intellectual framing, akin to DPLA Primary Source Sets. These will be called Collection Highlights. This approach provides a practical solution to collections-focused digital project engagement and discovery progress. It introduces a low-stakes way for liaisons to build their confidence in digital scholarship, while simultaneously doing foundational work to promote collections. Multiple subject liaison librarians will be able to learn and to promote distinctive UTL collections without maxing-out individual liaison or UTL IT resource capacity. This foundational work will then create a pathway for scaffolding up to doing more involved projects.Item Buildings of Texas: Supporting Visual Browsing of Geospatial Archival Holdings through Web Mapping(2018-05-16) Hansen, GraceProviding access to geospatial archival and library holdings through visual browsing has profound implications for academic fields such as digital humanities as well as non-academic audiences. LIS institutions must navigate numerous challenges to create a set of geospatial data that is useful and accessible as they work to open their geospatial holdings. As part of the University of Texas at Austin Libraries' effort to build an infrastructure to support its geospatial data, the presenter is standardizing, geocoding, and creating a web map to display a spreadsheet inventory of the Alexander Architectural Archives' collection of research material for Gerald Moorhead's Buildings of Texas collection. This Lightning Round Presentation will discuss both conceptual and technical considerations that went into this project. First, I will discuss our decision to conceptualize the web map as an archival finding aid, and the ways in which spatial browsing better supports discovery for collections of this nature. I will also describe the diverse user needs that must be supported by the Alexander Architectural Archives and the implications of these needs on the standardization and design decisions. Finally, I will cover the technical challenges of cleaning, standardizing, and transforming a detail-rich dataset generated by the archival records' creator into a usable product, as well as the creation of a replicable workflow for treating other geospatial collections.Item Characterizing College-level Research Strengths Using Data from a Research Information Management System(2018-05-16) Lee, Dong Joon; Herbert, Bruce; Mejia, Ethel; Hahn, Doug; Bolton, MichaelTexas A&M University (TAMU) Libraries recently launched a research information management (RIM) system, Scholars@TAMU, which contains TAMU faculty scholarly information (e.g., their academic backgrounds, publications, teaching and grant activities). The system is based on a member-supported, open-source, semantic-web software (i.e., VIVO) that enables the discovery of research and scholarly activities across disciplines by providing standard research profiles. The system may serve as a university s authoritative record of the faculty scholarship. This can be an institution-level/enterprise system to support university leadership developing their future directions. New and important needs for the characterization of scholarly impact and institutional research that characterizes the research enterprise were identified during conversations with the campus community on the design of Scholars@TAMU. We addressing these needs through innovative library services, where these services are conceptualized as complementary innovations around a central IT system, collection or program. Complementary service elements are designed to work together with the central system so the service is more useful, impactful, and scalable. Innovative, Integrated Library Service Central System or Service: Scholars@TAMU (http://scholars.library.tamu.edu) is a researcher profile system that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines built using a robust, open-source, semantic-web application connected to a database of the products of faculty work. Complementary Service: Discovery of faculty expertise and research specialties to enhance faculty reputation, research collaborations, and societal awareness of Texas A&M s research programs. Complementary Service: Professional development program for faculty seeking promotion or tenure. This program includes both workshops and consultations guiding faculty in the use of scholarly and societal impact metrics. Complementary Service: Institutional research on the nature, practice and impact of Texas A&M s research that support the information needs, planning and decision-making responsibilities of the university administration. Complementary Service: Research evaluation to support program reviews and accreditation. After the system is deployed, the library had an increasing number of requests to help a college, center, institute, or department understand their research strength, impact, and productivity. Some of colleges or departments requested a help them successfully complete their annual program review or program accreditation. Rich database of the RIM system can generate different types of reports, and the library currently explores to develop a standardized template for understanding institutional research. This poster presents preliminary work including goals, processes, and tools and services, as well as some of visualizations of the Scholars@TAMU data as examples. The visualizations have been produced to characterize research strengths, productivity, impact, and research & publishing practices.Item Classifying Metadata in the Archive of Slavery(2018-05-16) Higgs, EmilyItem Community Health Information Station: Curated Health Resources in a Kiosk(2018-05-16) Sheldon, LorraineAccording to Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, 77% of study participants start their health-related searches using search engines. Potential results can vary widely in both scope and accuracy. This statistic in combination with the nearly 90 million U.S. adults with low health literacy creates an environment where health outcomes are directly connected to the resources community members are exposed to. The Community Health Information Station is a part of a grant-funded project from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, a division of the National Institute of Health. The purpose of the health information station is to improve community members' abilities to find, evaluate and use quality health information, by providing easy access to a collection of curated health resources via a tabletop kiosk. This technology tool is complemented with Community Health Workshops, which help participants develop the capacity to evaluate the quality of resources and expose them to the National Library of Medicine resource Medlineplus.gov. A total of ten health information stations will be distributed to various institution types including public libraries, health clinics, and health-oriented non-profits.Item Community Webs: Creating Community History Web Archives(2018-05-16) Praetzellis, Maria; Whitsett, Kyrie; Ward, EmilyMany public libraries have active local history collections and have traditionally collected print materials that document their communities. The ascension of the web as the primary publishing platform, however, has led to this material now being published exclusively on the web. Due to the technical challenges of archiving the web, the lack of training and educational opportunities, and the lack of an active community of public library-based practitioners, very few public libraries are building web archives. This session will review the Internet Archive's new program to provide education, training, professional networking, and technical services to enable public libraries to fulfill this vital role.Item Creating Efficient and Sustainable Workflows for Scholarly Works into a DSpace Repository(2018-05-16) Davis-Van Atta, Taylor; Dulek, Diana; Ramirez, Ada L.; Washington, AnneDuring the fall 2017 academic term, a team of two librarians and two professional staff at UH Libraries created and piloted new workflows for the upload of large batches of faculty and student research into the UH Institutional Repository. These workflows are based on modifications made to existing scripts and open source packaging software, along with collaborative efforts with TDL and other DSpace institutions, resulting in efficient and structured processing of materials. Over a two-month pilot period, the team prepared roughly 700 new scholarly items for ingest into the IR, streamlining the process for works originating from multiple sources, including vendor databases, faculty CVs, and campus events showcasing new scholarly works. Along the way, the team developed in-house metadata procedures and standards as well as templates for managing and sharing bibliographic data, and refined established divisions of labor. This presentation details the challenges and lessons learned from this pilot project as well as a discussion of how the team plans to scale these efforts and integrate them as part of a growing suite of services around digital scholarship.Item Creating RAIDER Publishing: Texas Tech s Path to Developing a Library Publishing Program(2018-05-16) Kirschner, JessicaLibrary publishing services are on the rise. Spurred by rising subscription costs for journals and the high cost of textbooks for students, many libraries have drawn on their experience in digital resources to create opportunities for faculty to publish low-cost or open-access journals, monographs, textbooks, and more. While the Texas Tech University Library has a history of publishing open access journals, it has only recently expanded its library publishing services to include producing affordable textbooks. In this presentation, TTU s Digital Publishing Librarian will preview the new library publishing program, RAIDER Publishing, which aims to produce Refereed, Affordable, Instructor-created, Digital Educational Resources. She will present the library s motivations for establishing the program and the program s scope and goals. She will then outline the path to fulfilling these goals: determining the scope, goals, and product-type; investigating publication-specific resources, such as publication contracts and hosting platforms, and funding models; developing new processes and procedures, such as peer-review, copyediting, and distribution; and navigating new collaborations with the University Press, campus bookstore, campus open educational resources (OER) initiative, and others. The presentation will conclude with an update on the status of the program, problems encountered thus far, faculty reception, and the next steps to getting the program fully up and running.Item Digging into Linked Data: Perspectives from the Long Tail(2018-05-16) Biswas, Paromita; Leonard, AndreaThe success of the semantic web depends on widespread participation by cultural heritage institutions and other organizations in making connections between open, structured datasets. Large university libraries are beginning to make such connections it s time for mid-size and smaller libraries to take the leap and establish themselves as playing a part in this web of data. In particular, digital collections of many of these libraries represent significant regional or local history collections; metadata of these collections exposed as linked data can bring visibility for these unique resources. But do these libraries have the resources to create semantic data? What kinds of resources and technical support do these libraries need? How much and what kind of training do their staff need for linked data projects? This presentation focuses on a collaborative linked data project between two mid-sized academic libraries--Western Carolina University and Appalachian State University. The libraries are members of the Western North Carolina Library Network and share a common catalog. Both libraries have significant special collections on Appalachian culture and history. Their project aims to expose a slice of their digital collections on Appalachia as linked data and build connections to related datasets on the web thereby exploring the possibilities of the semantic web. The project also serves as the testing bed for future such collaborative work, possibly on a larger scale. The presentation will highlight the successes and challenges faced by the presenters as they delved into this project. For example, what resources and training did they need? How successful were they in in manipulating digital collections metadata in OpenRefine; navigating the intricacies of various data models such as those from Europeana and DPLA; sorting through the multitude of controlled vocabularies that are available as linked data on the web and selecting the best possible options? How difficult or easy was it to figure out linked data jargon, such as dereferenceable URIs and RDF skeletons? What kind of technical support was needed for setting up triples stores and querying linked data via SPARQL endpoints? The presenters hope this presentation will be a useful learning experience for those who are thinking of venturing into creating access for their special collections using linked data tools particularly for those from mid-size to small libraries.Item Exhibiting with Wordpress: The building of a digital curation template(2018-05-16) Collins, IanOver the past six months, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Libraries built a new Digital Exhibit template from scratch using Wordpress in an attempt to expand the access and reach of both digitized materials and physical exhibits that have been held in our library. This required making wireframes, creating new requirements, retrofitting requirements for the older sites, developing the site in our Wordpress multisite with tools such as the Storefront theme, Site Origin Page Builder, Envira Gallery, and some custom code. Documentation and workshops are also being held to educate the Special Collections and Archives department on how to use this new toolset. There were 4 main goals for this initiative. 1. To migrate and redesign older sites based on collections such as the Chicago Urban League Records that were in various states of repair and now in platforms that we couldn't update. 2. Be able to accommodate new curation ideas and provide a digital component to physical exhibits which often have not had one. 3. Build something that would fit our branding and manage our content, but also was simple enough for our archivists could to build things with. 4. Streamline our own Wordpress multisite processes. We had built other exhibit sites during the past 3 or 4 years, but they all hold very different functionality and building blocks which means maintaining them is often a time consuming task for our limited staff. This template would allow for more consistency and harmony across the Wordpress ecosystem going forward. The project has been a success and the template has been built. The first site is awaiting a few small changes, but overall is in a complete redesigned state that is responsive and accessible. https://culexhibit.blog.library.uic.edu/Item Exploring our Collections: The Many Colors of the UNT Digital Library(2018-05-16) Andrews, Pamela; McIntosh, Marcia; Willis, ShannonThis 24x7 presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter. #ColorOurCollections is an initiative to promote the use of digital collections to a general audience by encouraging institutions to convert images within their collections into black and white drawings that can be used as coloring pages. These images are then promoted through Twitter via #ColorOurCollections. As many of these collections are viewed primarily as resources for scholarship, advertising images as coloring pages invites more potential digital collection users to increase engagement with held items. Using the #ColorOurCollections initiative, selected items were converted into black and white coloring pages. To further increase their visibility, a twitter bot was created to periodically tweet the images. After the #ColorOurCollections initiative has ended, this bot can be repurposed to advertise other items from the UNT Digital Library, including the institutional repository. This presentation describes the image conversion and twitter bot creation processes.Item Foster the Light: Orphan works and Underrepresented Communities(2018-05-16) Hammons, KiowaHistorically disadvantaged groups such as women, the LGBT community, and minority groups have often been underrepresented and overlooked as creative communities. For this reason there has also been a lack of intellectual property protections for works created by individuals categorized within these groups. This is due to a number of factors: the need for authors to register works to receive US copyright protections; the adherence to strict formalities for works created before the 1976 revisions in copyright law; and the limited options for these individuals for the fixation of their work through publication. The effect of this underrepresentation is an abundance of orphan works : works in which the author and/or rights holder cannot be readily identified. In a society that has only begun to acknowledge the cultural narratives of these disenfranchised groups, it has become paramount for institutions such as libraries and museums to collect, exhibit, and make accessible these important works to the public. But how can cultural institutions make orphan works available without causing inadvertent harm to the rights holders? This presentation will explore in detail the reasons why these works have become orphans, methodologies for seeking out rights holders, and ways to balance intellectual property protections for creatives while also allowing institutions the ability to make accessible these vital works to its patrons.Item From Meow to ROAR: University of Houston s Expansion of Open Access Repository Services(2018-05-16) Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Davis-Van Atta, Taylor; Washington, Anne; Scott, Bethany; Townes, Adam; Brett, Kelsey; Liu, XipingAs part of the University of Houston (UH) Libraries 2017-2021 Strategic Plan, a cross-departmental implementation team was formed to expand our open access research repository services beyond electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) to include a broad range of faculty, staff, and student works. The result of this effort is Cougar Research Open Access Repositories (ROAR): a portal to the UH Institutional Repository (UHIR) and the UH Data Repository (UHDR) which host scholarly works and data generated by the UH community. This presentation details the team s phased activities including internal preparation, pilot program, and finding and recommendations. Sub-teams were formed to carry out specific tasks, such as building the Cougar ROAR platform, developing ROAR policies and guidelines, enhancing institutional repository functions, scheduling campus promotional activities, and launching the open access pilot program. The presentation will also include strategies for gaining administrative and faculty buy-in, findings from faculty focus groups, insights into the metadata and technical considerations for the two systems, modes of deposit, training and promotion strategies, and a discussion of lessons learned. Many universities and research organizations are seeking to expand their open access repository services or migrate systems. This presentation will offer both general strategies and specific solutions that will be helpful to those and other institutions promoting new modes of scholarly communication.Item From Spreadsheets to DSpace: Building a Collection Management System in a Small Archive(2018-05-16) Stauber, Elizabeth; Abdirahman, Mohamed HaianThe Hogg Foundation for Mental Health established its archives in 2012 and appointed two graduate students at UT s School of Information to lead the project. The nature of using student labor meant the Foundation s archives did not have the capacity to maintain robust intellectual control over material. Substantial progress began in 2014 with the creation of several spreadsheets used to index material and group files into fonds structures. The inaugural Archivist and Records Manager was hired in 2015, and the archives has now evolved into an essential part of the Foundation s activities. The expansion of the archives has necessitated that the metadata management of the collection transition from a series of spreadsheets to a web-based collection management system. This transition is occurring in four phases: Phase I Preliminary Research, Phase II - Database Testing and Evaluation, Phase III - Prototype Design and Project Planning, and Phase IV - Final Implementation. The process of transitioning from spreadsheets to database systems can be intimidating for archives with limited capacities. The objective of this presentation is to provide a structured approach to this transition, helping small archives better plan their move towards more advanced technologies. Phase I of the transition began with establishing criteria for selecting a collection management system. A graduate student was recruited to research, demo, and implement the database under supervision of the Archivist. Together they drafted initial research questions: What open-source software was available for collection management in a web environment? Could the selected database be built with non-technical expertise? How easy would it be to manage and import metadata (and later digital objects) within the system? Phase II consisted of designing evaluation metrics and testing database systems. Following software recommendations by professional organizations, the archives unit chose to evaluate four databases: ArchivesSpace, Collective Access, Access to Memory, and DSpace. The analysis was conducted using an evaluation matrix and research report built from L. Spiros Archival Management Software and formatted to suit the Foundation s needs. Primary and secondary research was conducted by demoing each database. Review of this research was conducted by the Archivist, graduate student, and Systems Administrator, with a final decision to select DSpace as the web content management and digital preservation solution. Phase III of the transition included prototyping DSpace and drafting a project plan for full implementation. Following an installation of DSpace into a local environment, the archives unit began building a complete database to test DSpace s local functionalities. The project plan includes database policies, dataset cleaning priorities, workflows, and a timeline leading up to implementation. Phase IV of the transition is expected to conclude by April 2018, and will include a final implementation of DSpace into the production environment of the Foundation s archives.Item Gulliver's Travels and the Future of Repositories(2018-05) Corbly, David"...nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance." - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726-1727) Since Richard Poynder's seminal 2016 paper, 'Time to re-think the institutional repository,' with Q&A from one of the great thinkers in our field, Cliff Lynch, the future of institutional repositories has indeed been the topic of much thought, much talk, and a fair amount of activity. Platforms and players are being sorted out between stodgy stalwarts such as DSpace, Fedora Commons constantly shape-shifting from Hydra to Hyrax/Hyku to Samvera Hyrax/Hyku to Valkyrie Super-Platforms and for-profit commercial offerings. And again, Cliff Lynch knocks another one out of the ballpark with his Fall 2017 CNI plenary talk 'Resilience and Engagement in an Era of Uncertainty,' focusing in large part on institutional repositories and the current sorting-out. As in most things human, there s some truth and some self-aggrandizement behind all the talk and all the sorting out. Mere mortal librarians and developers charged with maintaining and filling up institutional repositories with as much Open Access content as possible are presented with a variety of bogeymen to fear or to make peace with. But could it be that this is a false dichotomy, just like the one presented to the citizens of Lilliput and Blefuscu in Gulliver s Travels, as they war over the proper way to crack an egg? It need not matter how one cracks the egg, just that one finds a way to get to the contents through whatever means works for the customer. This presentation will offer concrete suggestions as to how we as repository managers, digital humanists and developers can rise above the din of battle over the best way to crack the egg, and get on with giving our customers the dish they ordered they way the asked for it.Item Integration of off-site repository software with the library catalog and Inter-Library Loan(2018-05-16) Peters, ToddIn September 2017, Texas State University opened the Archives and Research Center (ARC). It is a 14,000 square-foot, off-site, state-of-the art facility that will preserve decades of university treasures and library resources, collections and research materials. The University Libraries selected Caiasoft from CAIA Software & Solutions as the repository management software for the facility. University Libraries staff constructed scripts to integrate Caiasoft with our Integrated Library System, Sierra, and our Inter-Library Loan system, ILLiad. This allows patrons to request materials from the ARC through the catalog, and allows document delivery and inter-library loan article requests to be fulfilled electronically from the facility using Odyssey. This poster will explain how the integration was setup and diagram the workflows involved.
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