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Managing impermanence – migration of the Libraries’ digital exhibits
Post contributed by Claire Cahoon, student in the master’s program at the School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill. This summer I worked as a field experience student in the Software...
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Building a new Staff Directory
The staff directory on the Library’s website was last overhauled in late 2014, which is to say that it has gotten a bit long in the tooth! For the past few months I’ve been working along with my...
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Managing Problematic Metadata
In April 2018 I attended an excellent NISO webinar entitled “Can there be neutrality in cataloging?”. Initially this struck me as a somewhat quaint title, as though there could be any answer other than...
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What happens when you click “Search?”
How many times each day to you type something into a search box on the web and click “Search?” Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes to make this possible? In this post I’ll show how...
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Agile 101
Here in the DUL Information Technology Services organization, we continue to embrace Agile concepts, applied to many different types of projects, including the Integrated Library System (ILS), the...
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Resonance of a Moment
Resonance: the reinforcement or prolongation of sound by reflection from a surface or by the synchronous vibration of a neighboring object (Lexico, 2019) Nearly 4 months have passed since I moved to...
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What we talk about when we talk about digital preservation
(Header image: Illustration by Jørgen Stamp digitalbevaring.dk CC BY 2.5 Denmark) Here at Duke University Libraries, we often talk about digital preservation as though everyone is familiar with the...
View ArticleLighting and the PhaseOne: It’s More Than Point and Shoot
Last week, I went to go see the movie IT: Chapter 2. One thing I really appreciated about the movie was how it used a scene’s lighting to full effect. Some scenes are brightly lit to signify the...
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New Digitization Initiative and Call for Proposals
Two years ago, Duke Libraries Advisory Council for Digital Collections launched a new process for proposing digitization projects. Previously the group accepted new digitization proposals every month....
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Giao’s Whirlwind Experience as an ARL-LCDP Fellow
The Association of Research Libraries’ Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) just recently completed the capstone institute for the 2018-2019 cohort. As a member of that cohort, called “The...
View ArticleCaiaSoft: The GFA Replacement
This fall, Library ITS is helping the Library Service Center (LSC) plan the transition to new high density storage management software. We are engaging with CaiaSoft who provides new software that...
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A Statement of Commitment
The featured image is from a mockup of a new repositories home page that we’re working on in the Libraries, planned for rollout in January of 2020. Working at the Libraries, it can be dizzying to think...
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ArcLight at the End of the Tunnel
Archival collection guides—also known as finding aids—are a critical part of the researcher experience when finding and accessing materials from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript...
View ArticleFOLIO Update November 2019
Here at Duke, the buzz continues around FOLIO. We have continued to contribute to the international project as active participants on the FOLIO Product Council, special interest groups, and...
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Where do patrons get lost? A study of library navigation.
In the Assessment & User Experience Department, we’re always looking for ways to improve how our patrons experience the libraries’ physical and online spaces. One of our primary ways of learning...
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Digital Collections 2019
‘Tis the time of year for top 10 lists. Here at Duke Digital Collections HQ, we cannot just pick 10, because all our digital collections are tops! What follows is a list of all the digital collections...
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All About that Time Base
The video digitization system in Duke Libraries’ Digital Production Center utilizes many different pieces of equipment: power distributors, waveform and vectorscope monitors, analog & digital...
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Inspirations and Resolutions for 2020
Happy New Year from all of us at the Digital Production Center! In this pictorial posting, I figured we should start the New Year right with some images and collections that are inspiring, funny, and...
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Describing 3D Data in MorphoSource 2.0
Header Image: Collection of extinct and extant turtle skull microCT scans in MorphoSource: bit.ly/3DFossilTurtles MorphoSource (www.morphosource.org) is a publicly accessible repository for 3D...
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Managing Problematic Metadata, Take Two
Back in August I wrote a Bitstreams post about the various ways by which those of us who work with library metadata could attempt to tackle the issue of problematic descriptions and descriptive...
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