Laurie N. Taylor

Managing an Open Access, Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library: The Digital Library of the Caribbean

ABSTRACT Developing an Open Access, multi-institutional, multilingual, international digital library requires robust technological and institutional infrastructures that support both the needs of individual institutions alongside the needs of the growing partnership and ensure continuous communication and development of the shared vision for the digital library as a whole. This article explains the methods and factors that have led to the Digital Library of the Caribbeans success in building the necessary infrastructure, following the initial planning to the current stage of development, along with how challenges were met and the challenges that remain.

Broadening Impact for Library Exhibitions and Speakers

ABSTRACT Libraries curate exhibitions and host speakers to promote collections and engage communities. Traditional library exhibit spaces present information gaps for visitors. To bridge these gaps, the University of Florida (UF) created and deployed innovative technologies, the Community Engagement Engine (CEE) for iPads (handheld and kiosks). The CEE facilitates visitors registration as well as questions and comments sent directly to curators with automated email responses with relevant materials. The CEE allows libraries to aggregate visitor information for targeted outreach and assessment. This article discusses the CEE for innovative community engagement, including considerations for other institutions interested in engaged exhibitions programs.

Digital Humanities as Public Humanities

Abstract This chapter frames the University of Florida’s (UF) programmatic activities in the Digital Humanities (DH), delineated at UF with the emphasis on the Humanities as Public Humanities, and then focuses specifically on the role of the Graduate Internship Program in the Libraries as a strategic initiative supporting transformative collaboration through library partnership with teaching units and immersive engagement with graduate students. The chapter reviews the background, planning, and goals of the Internship Program. The chapter also covers two of the initially awarded internships in DH/Scholarship and Publishing, and the Digital Library of the Caribbean and Digital Scholarship. Importantly, the chapter is collaboratively authored by library faculty who developed the Internship Program Committee, teaching faculty who helped create and lead unique internship opportunities, and the graduate student interns themselves, to together address larger conceptual issues and questions of DH as Public Humanities in engagement for graduate education and library programs.

Digital Dreams: The Potential in a Pile of Old Jewish Newspapers.

To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida, the Price Library launched the first stage of a project to digitize an important, special collection of anniversary editions of Jewish newspapers from around the world. This article provides the history of the collection, need for this project, steps involved in digitization and digital collection building, and future events based on the feedback to the initial project, which will include outreach, subsequent individual and collaborative digital collection development projects, online exhibits, and more.

Abby Clobridge. Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources. Oxford, U.K.: Chandos Publishing, 2010. 272p.

late 2010. The reader may also find that the final essay on organization development, Elaine Z. Jennerich and M. Sue Baughman’s “Creating Smooth Sailing,” although logically appropriate to include, does seem slightly out of place when considering the content of the other essays. Eric Bartheld’s “Listen Up Librarian,” on marketing and outreach, does spend time exploring the importance of an academic library having a consistent message, yet it is done while examining the expanding role of professionals within libraries who focus on marketing. These particular items are minor when considering the entire content of the book. All of the essay authors, and the editors, are closely associated with academic libraries, with many serving in senior leadership roles in their respective libraries. Overall, the book is excellent and the title captures the content and focus of the book very well. Those in academic libraries will find the book well worth their time.—Mark E. Shelton, Harvard University.