Pre-conference workshops filling up for 2018 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference

Oct 2, 2018, 1:34 pm
by Sara Ring

Quick Summary

Pre-conference workshop seats are filling up for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18) at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. View the full conference schedule or r egister now.

Workshops

Born Digital Access Bootcamp
Presenter: Daniel Johnson, University of Iowa
The UMDCC Born Digital Access Bootcamp will focus on building strategies to provide access to born-digital material. Designed as an opportunity for practitioners and beginners to learn from one another, the workshop will take a collaborative approach with group discussions on relevant topics guided by workshop facilitators, followed by hands-on demonstrations of born-digital access systems and breakout discussion sessions. Topics will be selected through surveying workshop participants and through forum discussion, but will ultimately address how policies, copyright/risk assessment, user needs, reference interactions, processing workflows, donor relations, advocacy, and other archival functions affect how, when, and what we provide access to, with an emphasis on user-driven access throughout. Read more.

Digital Projects Jump-Start: Planning and Implementing Sustainable Digital Projects at Resource-Strapped Institutions
Presenters: Amy Bocko, Western Michigan University; Heather J. Stecklein, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Nathalie Wheaton, Rush University Medical Center
The modern library has seen a new area of our holdings and collection efforts emerge: unique digital collections. As our users’ needs and fluency with technology have changed, so have our library services and avenues for information delivery. Our users want digital materials at the ready, and they want them now! While our holdings have easily adapted to acquiring additional databases and new ebooks, how do we address the growing need for our unique materials to be digitized? Moreover, how do small, resource-strapped institutions fulfill this need? Join archivists Heather Stecklein and Nathalie Wheaton, and digital projects librarian Amy Bocko for a crash course on launching digital projects at your own resource-strapped institution. Read more.

Don't Be Wrong About Rights
Presenters: Stephanie Hess, Northfield Historical Society; Molly Huber, Minnesota Digital Library/Minitex; Nancy Sims, University of Minnesota Libraries
What kind of information do you currently provide to users about who may own rights in items in your collections, and how those items can be used? How confident are you in that information? Rightsstatements.org provides new tools you can use to more accurately represent the rights status of materials in your collection. RightsStatements.org is a joint initiative of Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) that has developed a simple, standardized system of labels that more clearly communicate the copyright and re-use status of digital objects to the public. Adding these labels to your collections will improve usability and access for users while increasing the depth of your organizational metadata. This workshop will provide an overview of some of the basic background copyright issues, a detailed review of the Rights Statements labels, and offer workflows and other suggestions for implementing the labels with your digital collections. Read more.