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Abstract: 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 (ULS) 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.
Bio: 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.
In 2000 Ed accepted a position within the University
Library System at Pitt as head of the DRL, a newly formed
department responsible for the library’s digitization
activities. He has overseen the creation and release
of nearly fifty image collections, over a dozen text
collections, over two dozen map collections, and hundreds
of archival finding aids. He served as the Principal
Investigator of an IMLS grant to digitize and mount thousands
of Historic Pittsburgh images from multiple collections
and repositories in the city. He has also been a co-director
of an NEH project to microfilm and digitize a selection
of Chinese monographs, a co-director of a Commonwealth-funded
project to digitize portions of the Dick Thornburgh papers,
and a co-director of a University Innovation in Education
award to create the Chartres Cathedral image collection
with Dr. Alison Stones, Professor of History of Art and
Architecture.
Ed still maintains strong roots to the archival profession
as evidenced by his active membership in the Society
of American Archivists (SAA) and the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Archival Conference (MARAC). He is currently working
with members of PALINET, PALCI and the Commonwealth Libraries
to create an OAI-based harvesting service at Pitt to
federate access to digitized material scattered throughout
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