EDITOR'S NOTES
Getting Your Digital Stuff Together
by Dick Kaser
In this issue, we turn our attention to digital asset management (DAM). You’ll find case studies and best practices for digitizing and managing your library’s own digital content assets. There are also solutions for improving the user experience in discovering and retrieving digital objects, as well as articles on managing digital repositories and open archives.
Alex Kent, a digital initiatives librarian, describes his experience in building digital repositories with Islandora for a number of libraries as part of the Minnesota Program for Automatic Library Systems (PALS).
Lee Boulie, director of digital library services at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, shares what she learned in digitizing a collection of 2.5 million items and making it public.
Rachel Evans, from the law library at the University of Georgia, discusses how she used bepress to create a digital commons for the school’s faculty and student scholarly works.
Columnist Jan Zastrow discusses how to use IRENE to digitize “groovy” media, such as old recordings on cylinders and discs.
Terence Huwe weighs in on the importance of open digital repositories for storage and for informing research projects that are in progress. And Jessamyn West discusses the importance of opening up our research collections so that they are available to users along with the “easy answers” most people settle for in their web searching.
For our EDTECH readers, I am pleased to present an article by Brian Pichman, who not only organizes the Games and Gadgets sessions at our library conferences, but who makes his living by facilitating educational partnerships with tech companies. In this issue, he runs down his top tech picks for your library’s gaming spaces.
Happy reading!
Dick Kaser, Executive Editor
kaser@infotoday.com
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