Over the last year, the Digital Production Group, along with the Conservation and Metadata units, have engaged in a multi-institutional project to increase access to dime novels and story papers, digitizing over 700 from the library’s holdings! 📰 See: https://t.co/QLsoLFN2br
Lauren Sorensen is joining us as a new staff member of Digital Library Systems & Services. It’s auspicious to make this announcement today, Human Rights Day; Lauren will be serving as the Digital Projects & Data Manager for the Virtual Tribunals program.
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Digitizing course reserves materials has been our main activity in the Digital Production Group labs (and at home) these past few months. As you can read in this post, it was truly a joint effort. 📚 📖 💻 We are proud of our collective work in support of teaching and learning!
Pandemic pivot: Digitization services for course reserves
Since July 21, the Course E-Reserves Working Group has met weekly to formulate a plan to digitize portions of or entire works requested for course reserves.
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Gutter challenges in the digitization lab the past week or so - it will be worth it, we promise! With type extending deep into the chasm, lighting and focus are extra tricky but we adjust the setup accordingly and do what we can. More info on the volume to come! #digitization
1/12 As the daily work of the Digital Production Group is primarily hands-on in the labs, making the switch to working from home while sheltering-in-place has taken patience, flexibility, & creativity. In this series, staff members Laura & Tati take over to share a peek at both:
Our Spotlight at Stanford exhibits team has added a new "Social justice" tag to the exhibits page in an effort to elevate and amplify marginalized voices. Thank you to the team, to the Access Team, and @cathyaster for bringing this idea to fruition. See: https://t.co/PG2aW4voXv
Our colleague, rare books curator Ben Albritton, called attention to the hidden labor in digitization & discovery in his CESTA talk on “Manuscript Fragments in the Stanford Collections: Digital Afterlives” today. We feel seen! @bla222@cesta_stanford@StanfordSpec
Mark Ruwedel: 72 and One Half Miles Across Los Angeles - voiceover interview between Mark Ruwedel and his partner Corrine Corry https://t.co/9tAPJKpeqD (@StanfordSpec has acquired over 450 photographs)