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On Wednesday, April 4th, Ed Galloway
will discuss “Collaborating with Pitt Faculty to Build Image Collections" as part
of the Digital
Libraries Colloquium Series. The
lecture by Galloway, the Coordinator of the Digital
Research Library at the University of Pittsburgh, will
be held at 12:00 noon in Room 501 of the Information
Science Building. The lecture is free and open
to the public.
The Digital Research Library (DRL) supports the teaching
and research mission of the University of Pittsburgh
by serving users through the creation and delivery
of Web-accessible digital collections. The DRL has
experienced tremendous growth since it was established
as a new department within the University Library System
in 1999. From its inception, the DRL focused on creating
text-based collections whose digitization and accessibility
on the Web would aid the research of scholars, historians,
faculty, and students. The DRL has since expanded its
tools and capabilities to provide access to an array
of material, including photographs, slides, negatives,
maps, manuscripts, illustrations, postcards, drawings,
broadsheets, posters, audio, video, finding aids, and
bibliographic catalogs of collections.
This presentation will introduce the different types
of collections digitized and mounted by the DRL. In
particular, Ed will discuss the importance of forming
partnerships with other ULS departments, local institutions,
and Pitt faculty to rapidly build local image and text
collections. Ed will describe changes in the department's
workflow and scanning requirements in order to tackle
larger projects in an efficient manner. He will also
talk about the unique relationships formed by the DRL
with faculty at Pitt who seek to mount their images
online for research, teaching and instruction purposes.
The DRL is currently engaged in a major endeavor to
digitize large portions of the Darlington Memorial
Library, which comprises books, maps, atlases, manuscripts,
broadsides, and photographs. Ed will discuss the plans
and methods of achieving this goal within the next
several years. As a founding member of the Open Content
Alliance, the ULS will contribute the image files from
this project to the Internet Archive for broader access.
Ed Galloway is the Coordinator of the Digital Research
Library (DRL) at the University of Pittsburgh. He has
a B.A. in History from Southwestern University in Georgetown,
Texas and an MLIS from the University of Texas. In
1993 he moved to Pittsburgh to work for Carnegie Mellon
University as the archivist responsible for processing
the congressional papers of the late Senator John Heinz.
He also managed the digitization of nearly one million
pages from the collection that are available online.
The Digital Libraries Colloquium is sponsored by the
School of Computer Science-Carnegie Mellon University,
the School of Information Sciences-University of Pittsburgh,
the University Library System-University of Pittsburgh,
the University Libraries-Carnegie Mellon University
and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
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