Greg Wiedeman
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Overview of New Special Collection Systems
Big picture, What and Why
What resources are here
Some basic examples
More in-depth demos
Subject Librarians last week
Reference staff next Wednesday, April 3rd at 11am in Special Collections
Disambiguation
Purposely unbranded, “Search the Archives”
What this is?
Technology for the Espy Project
One of the deliverables, but not the content
Quicksearch
Discovery Layer
ArcLight
Archives Metadata (Finding Aids)
Hyrax
Digital Repository
Where is this?
It’s our website
library.albany.edu/archive
archives.albany.edu
One Search for Special Collections
Official University Records
New York Political Collections
Death Penalty Collections
German Émigré
all other manuscript collections
Except Rare Books and Mathes
What can I find?
Finding aids, digital content, everything from Luna
Records of collections, file series, individual folders
Digitized materials
Born-digital Materials
PDFs, Office documents
Images
Audio and Video
Full Text search of digitized and born-digital records
Web Archives
Will soon include digitized Espy Papers
What can I find?
Albany Student Press
Senate Bills
University Photographs
WAMC Shows
CSEA and UUP photos and publications
Capital Punishment Clemency Petitions
How do I Navigate?
Extensible Access
Searching digital objects
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Requesting individual items
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Planning long term research
Requests and On-Demand Digitalization
Requires minimal metadata
Backend for uploading and reviewing
Don’t know demand
Don’t have established policies
Downloading, Linking, Embedding, Searching
Download all online items
URIs are persistent for linking and citing
Embed content in any website
Embed specific sub searches
https://library.albany.edu/archive/use
Licensing and Rights
All online items have license or rights statement
Public domain
CC-BY-NC-ND
Educational Use Permitted
Archives, Catalog, and Primo
Future Plans
More Content!
Yearbooks
updated Senate and Provost records
More WAMC shows
Data Clean up from past reference
Digitize on-demand
Future grants
Smaller projects
Commencement programs
Senate bills
UX improvements