July 13 is the deadline to receive discounted pricing to the 2008 OCLC Western Digital Forum, which is being presented on August 14-15, 2008, in Tacoma, Washington, at the Hotel Murano. This year’s forum will focus on Making Digitization Count: Assessment and Evaluation Practices.
The forum will feature national experts from the archival, museum and library communities who will discuss current projects to create and automate evaluation and assessment tasks for digital collections. Three of these distinguished presenters include:
- Kate Haley Goldman (Keynote speaker), Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Learning Innovation, Annapolis MD
- Elizabeth Yakel, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information
- Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CONTENTdm Basic Instruction for Users is designed to assist libraries and cultural heritage institutions on how to operate and make the best use of CONTENTdm software. The course provides hands-on training that combines information for both the beginning and experienced user.
Workshop exercises include basic and advanced features such as:
- Creating collections
Using the compound document wizard
- Metadata and controlled vocabulary implementation
- Maintaining your collections with batch replacement of objects and subset-editing of metadata
This course is best suited for those who have a basic-level understanding of and experience using CONTENTdm utilities. It is also most appropriate for those organizations with CONTENTdm already in place, or those that would like to preview the software.
The OCLC Western Digital and Preservation Programs
OCLC Western understands your struggle to meet the demand for online alternatives, while working toward maintaining the integrity of your valuable physical collection. As such, OCLC Western offers two distinct service areas focused on providing advice, support and education for the development of digital collections along with care and preservation of the physical collections held by your organization. Our comprehensive digital and preservation program provides consulting services and education courses designed to provide critical guidance when making important decisions to meet both your budget and planning objectives.
Through our digital programs we offer an array of services from program development and grant development assistance to technical consulting for digital collections implementation. We can provide advice and training geared toward your project needs, and help your organization complete the digital collections life cycle from creation of collections to long-term preservation of digital content.
In the Preservation area OCLC Western specializes in offering collaborative education and training opportunities by working with nationally-known preservation organizations to bring preservation training to our membership. OCLC Western preservation staff is also available to conduct preservation site surveys, disaster planning, preservation collection assessments and environmental scans as part of our consulting services. Our goal is to build the level of preservation skills and knowledge of long-term collection care for our membership.
Education and training
Face-to-face and online
OCLC Western offers a range of education and training, seminars and workshops designed to build knowledge and skills for you and your staff to help address your digital collection management and preservation needs. Training comes in several formats including day-long, face-to-face workshops, brief desktop learning sessions and formal on-line learning sessions conducted over several weeks. Topics will range from book repair and disaster planning to environmental monitoring and more.
We can also customize training to meet your needs. Please contact us to discuss what education and training is right for you.
Grant development
Our experienced specialists can help you seek funding for your digital collection or preservation projects. We offer grant proposal writing services, review and analysis of grant proposals, and help to finalize your proposal before you submit it for funding. We also provide project assessment, funding strategies and consulting services to support collaborative projects and proposals. Learn more about competitive funding development in Grant development.
Consulting
In digital collection management and preservation, good project planning begins with understanding long-term program development strategies. Whether you're half-way through a project or at the beginning of your planning, OCLC Western's knowledgeable digital programs and preservation staff can help identify priorities, create strategic funding plans and implement the technical steps for digital collection or preservation activities.
OCLC Western has staff, expertise in digital program management, preservation, conservation techniques and disaster prevention. We will support your projects and connect you with information for both your digital services and the preservation of rare and fragile paper, maps or media collections. Consultants are available for site visits and consulting calls. Contact us to schedule a site visit or call.
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