Message-Id: <mailto:199407180330.WAA25229@library.wustl.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 03:50:14 -0500 From: Sandeep Somaiya <mailto:sandeep@NEXT2.VTLS.COM> Subject: List of Imaging Projects To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
Hello, during the last couple of days I have seen a number of messages to the group asking for a list of imaging project in libraries. The most notable of which is RLMS Electronic Imaging Technologies Committee list that was handed out at A A last month. I just went ahead and scanned in the list and OCR'ed it. It is appended to this mail. The list might have ome errors due to limits of OCR technology. If you find an email address or phone number that does not work please send mail directly to mailto:somaiyas@vtls.com and I will check the original and email you the correct information. In addition to the RLMS list I am also appending a list of four other projects that I have been involved with personallyThis list contains: o 66 on-going projects from ALA RLMS EIT Committe survey list o 16 planned projects from ALA RLMS EIT Committe survey list o 4 other projects List size is approximately 34K.
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SURVEY OF IMAGING PROJECTS, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, RLMS Electronic Imaging Technologies Committee, Compiled May 1 94 [Includes responses to an informal survey conducted by the RLMS Electronic Imaging Technologies Committee in March 19 3 and May 1994]
1.ARCHlVO GENERAL DE INDIAS, SEVILLE, SPAIN DESC: Collaborative research project with IBM to preserve more than 8 million fragile documents relating to Spain's expl ration of the New World. REFS: (1) Gonzalez Garcia, P. "Historical Documentation and Digital Conversion of Images at the Proyecto de Informatizac on of the Archivo General de Indias. Seville." Microform Review, 18 (Fall 1989): 217-221. (2) "Columbus' Letters Go On Disc." Electronic Documents 2, no. 1 (January 1993): 10.
2.ARIZONA SUN NEWSPAPER DESC: Digitizing color and black and white news photographs using the AP Leas Preserver system with images stored on opt cal platters accessible in the library and at a news desk. CONTACT: Mary Johnson, Phoenix Newspaper Inc. Library, P.O. 1950, Phoenix, AZ 85001, Telephone:602-238-4478
3.AT&T INFORMATION SERVICES DESC: AT&T has been scanning internal technical memoranda since 1989. The library's online catalog includes bibliographi citations to the scanned memoranda. Images can be displayed at the user's workstation or a hard copy print can be sent directly to the user. CONTACT: AT&T Information Services Network, 600 Mountain Avenue. Room 6A-311, Murray Hill. NJ 07974, Telephone: 908-582- 361
4.BASEL (SWITZERLAND) MISSION ARCHIVE DESC: Pilot project to preserve and provide international access to a collection of 50,000 historical photographs. Photo are re-photographed and transferred from film to electronic format. CONTACT: Basler Mission, Abt. Archiv/Photoprojekt, Missionstrasse 21, CH4003 Basel, Switzerland
5.BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD DESC: Digitizing material from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera utilizing Photo-CD format with images lin ed to a database containing detailed textual information, searchable in full text. CONTACT: Richard Gartner, Pearson New Media Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Broad Street. Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom. Telephone: +44 965 277060. Fax: +44 865 277182 mailto:[mailto:GARTNER@VAX.OX.AC.UK] REF: Gartner, R. "Digitising the Bodleian?" Bookseller, no. 4574 (August 20. 1993): 220-223.
6.BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY DESC: Have converted over 250,000 photographs to a Macintosh-based 12-inch WORM optical disk system. CONTACT: Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203, Telephone:205-226-3600
7.BOULDER PUBLIC LIBRARY DESC: Boulder Public Library has implemented photo image access in the online catalog, an enhancement to its CARL System Public Access Catalog. Photo images are linked to corresponding MARC records. CONTACT:Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Rd., Boulder, CO. 90306, Telephone: 303-441-3100
8.BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY DESC: Scanning materials from their photo archives and interested in enhancing scanned images of music scores that are b dly damaged using Adobe Photoshop. Also exploring Kodak PhotoCD technology for cataloging or storing images. CONTACT: David Day, Music Librarian, Brigham Young University, 5222 HBLL, Provo, UT 84602,Telephone: (801) 378-6119, FA (801) 378-6347 [mailto:david_day@byu.edu]
9.CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY PHOENIX PROJECT DESC: Digital archiving service for museums, libraries, schools and businesses for documents ranging from CAD/CAE drawin s. musical, literary, and artistic masterpieces to legal documents. The Huntington Library has participated in Ule Phoen x Project on a pilot level, scanning special collections materials. CONTACT: Robert Howell, MMRP Director, Multi-Media Research Project, Dept. of Applied Art and Design, Cal Poly State Uni ersity, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407. Telephone: 805-756-2772
10.CALIFORNIA STATE LONG BEACH DESC: In cooperation with San Jose State University, are scanning 20,000 slides using EmbARK software (Digital Collectio Inc.) to support a World Art Survey course. CONTACT: Scott Bell, Cal State Long Beach [mailto:sbell@csulb.edu]
11.CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY REFS: Tinsley, G.L., and K.M. Youtison. "The Carnegie-Mellon University Library Information Systems (LIS): Applications ithin the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Online Environment." Special Libraries, 84, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 18-24.
12.CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY DESC: Using videodisc technology to store digital images of a million photographs with descriptive text for retrieval. CONTACT: Cleveland Public Library, 325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, OH 44114, Telephone: 216-623-2800
13.COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION LIBRARY DESC: Scanning slides using Photo-CD technology and Kodak Shoebox program to index each image with an image number, phot grapher and brief citation. Would like to network the images in the near future. CONTACT: Ellen Blackwell, Audiovisual Catalog Librarian, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, P.O. Box 1776, Willia sburg, VA 23187, Telephone: 804-220-7414 [mailto:ehblac@mail.wm.edu]
14.COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DESC: Pilot project to create a digital (and color microfilm) version of portions of the NYS Museum Bulletin with the fo us on pictures, graphs and maps. CONTACT: Susan Klimley, Lamont-Doherty Geological Library, Columbia University, Palisades, NY [mailto:klimley@cunixf.cc. olumbi .edu] REFS: (1) Klimley, Susan. "Notes from the Cutting Edge." Microform Review, 22, no. 3, Summer 1993:105-107. (2) "Pilot Pr ject Demonstrates CD-ROM. Fiche Products." The Commission on Preservation and Access Newsletter, no. 53 (Feb. 1993): 2-3
15.COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL JANUS.PROJECT DESC: Project to convert 10,000-12,000 law titles to digital images with full-text search and retrieval capabilities usi g a supercomputer and advanced search software from Thinking Machines Corp. CONTACT: Columhia Law School Library, Jerome Grcene Hall, Box A-6, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, Tciephone: 12-854-2645 REFS: (1) Reid, C. "Columbia Experiment will put Lihrary Collection Online." Publishers Weekly, 240 (February 22, 1993) 13. (2) "Virtual Library Created at Columbia Law." Wilson Library Bulletin, 67 (March 1993): 12.
16.CONSORTIUM FOR OPTICAL IMAGING IN LAW LIBRARIES (COILL) DESC: Developed in 1992, 14 participaling law libraries are developing imaging technology for legal materials. CONTACT: Nick Finke. Director of COILL, Cincinnati, OH, Telephone: 513-556-0103
17. CORNELL UNIVERSITY NEH PROJECT DESC: Will test the feasibility of using digital image technology to create microfilm that will meet national preservati n standards for quality and image permanence. 1,500 volumes of core historic agricultural material will be scanned and endors selected to convert the high resolution digital images to preservation quality microfilm. CONTACT: Anne R. Kenney, Associate Director, Dept. of Preservation and Conservation, 214 Olin Library, Cornell Universit , Ithaca, NY 14853, Telephone: 607-255-6875, [mailto:ark3@cornell.edu]
18. CORNELL UNIVERSITY CLASS PROJECT DESC: Commission on Preservation and Access and Xerox Corporation sponsored project in which 1,000 mathematics volumes w re scanned to create digital files with preservation quality paper facsimiles produced on demand. CONTACT: Anne R. Kenney, Associate Director, Dept. of Preservation and Conservation, 214 Olin Library, Cornell Universit , Ithaca, NY 14853, Telephone: 607-255-6875, [mailto:ark3@cornell.edu]
19. CORNELL UNIVERSITY KLIC PROJECT DESC: Kodak Library Image Consortium project with USC, Eastman Kodak and the Commission on Preservation and Access to sc n photographic images utilizing the Kodak Photo CD process. CONTACT: Tom Hickerson, Rare and Manuscript Collection, 2B70 Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, Teleph ne: 607-255-3530
20. CORNELL UNIVERSITY CORE PROJECT DESC: Collaborative research project with the American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts Service, OCLC, Bellcore and he Mann Library to develop and implement an electronic library system and to study electronic information delivery. The ull text and images of the 10 years of 20 key ACS journals are available to researchers over a local campus network. CONTACT: Rich Entlich, Information Technology Section, Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 149S3. Telephone: 60 -255-4608 [mailto:rentlich@albert.mannlib.cornell.edu]
21.DUKE UNIVERSITY DESC: Project involves scanning sheet music to provide images and indexing using software available from Internet sites WAIS from Thinking Machines and MIME (image, sound and text viewer) from ARCHlE. They also plan to make the actual musi available as well. CONTACT: Lois Schultz, Original Cataloger, Duke University Libraries [lois mailto:@iliad.lib.duke.edu]
22.ELSEVIER TULIP PROJECT DESC: A cooperative research project sponsored by Elsevier Science Publishers to test systems for networked delivery and use of 42 science and engineering journals in TIFF bit-mapped page images and ASCII full-text format. CONTACT: Karen Hunter. Elsevier Science Publishers
23.FORD MOTOR TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER LIBRARY DESC: Have developed an imaging system for technical and engineering reports. The library's online catalog server and th indexing/finding tool with a full-text image available at a keystroke. CONTACT: Ford Motor Company, Technical Information Section, 20000 Rotunda Drive, P.O. Box 1602, Dearborn, MI 48121, Tele hone: 313-323-1059
24.GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY REF: Broering, N.C. "Georgetown University: The Virtual Medical Library." Computers in Libraries, 13, no. 2 (February 19 3): 13.
25.HARVARD UNIVERSITY DOORS PROJECT DESC: The DOORS (Design-Oriented On-Line Resource System) research project archives and makes available in a networked e vironment, design reference materials including text, numeric and visual images (slides, drawings photographs), animatio s. digital video and multimedia efforts. CONTACT: Hinda Sklar, Associate Dean for Information Services, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. 48 Quincy treet, Cambridge, MA 02138, Telephone: 617-4954010, Fax: 617496-5929 [mailto:hsklar@gsd.harvard.edu] or Erin Rae Hoffer Assis ant Dean for Information Technology. Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 0213 , Telephone: 617-495-3703, Fax:617-496-5866 [mailto:erin@gsd.harvard.edu]
26.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AMERICAN MEMORY PROTECT DESC: Multimedia project that includes text, images, sound and motion picture of early American archival, pamphlet and p otographic material. CONTACT: Carl Fleischhauer, Project Director, Room LM-603, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 REFS: (1) Culshaw, H. "American Memory: Taking the Library of Congress to the Masses." CD-ROM Librarian, 7, no. 9 (Octob r 1992): 14-21. (2) "Our Collective Conscience: The American Memory Project."Document Delivery World, 9, no. 4 (June/Aug st 1993): 37-38.
27.LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY DESC: Electronic Imaging Laboratory established in 1991 to digitize special collections materials including OCR to produ e a full text database. Currently scanning 90,000 historical photographs and have many other projects in process. CONTACT: Faye Phillips, Head, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections. Louisiana State University Libraries [ mailto:OTVFP@LSUVM] REFS: (1) Condrey, R., F. Phillips, and T. Presti. "Historical Ecology: LSU's Electronic Imaging Laboratory." College an Research Libraries News, 54, no.8, (Sept. 1993). (2) Martin, R.S., and F. Phillips."Scanning Historical Documents: The lectronic Imaging Laboratory at Louisiana State University." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 34, no. 4 (Fall 1993): 298-301.
28.MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY DESC: Electronic archives project. CONTACT: Michael Pate, Assistant Director for Public Services, Marquette University Memorial Library,Milwaukee, WI 53233 Telephone: 414-288-7214
29.MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DESC: MIT has a project underway to digitize a slide collection. CONTACT: Katherine Poole, Rotch Visual Collections Librarian, MIT, Cambridge, MA 021~9 Telephone: 617-253-7098 [mailto:k mailto:poole@ thena.mit.edu]
30.MILWAUKEE PUBLlC MUSEUM DESC: Project to scan 300 Chippewa Indian photographs to an interactive CD-ROM. Hope to include a catalog of the photog aphs on the disk. CONTACT: Susan Otto, Photo Collection Manager, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St.,Milwaukee, WI 53233. Telephone 414-278-2743. Fax: 414-278-6100 [mailto:otto@csd4.csd.uwm.edu]
31.NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL TEXT Digitizing PROGRAM DESC: NAL and 45 Land Grant Libraries have conducted a cooperative effort to test the feasibility of using optical scann ng and text recognition technologies to capture printed agricultural materials in machine-readable form. The resulting i age and text data were then published on CD-ROM discs for distribution to the agricultural community. CONTACT: Judith A. Zidar, NATDP Coordinator, USDA, NAL, ISD. Rm. 013, 10301 Baltimore Blvd.,Beltsville, MD 20705-2~51, P one: (301) 504-6813, Fax: (301) 504-7473 [mailto:jzidar@nalusda.gov] REF: "National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project: Toward the Electronic Library." November 1992. (available from NAL)
32.NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY PHOTO IMAGE PROJECT DESC: Cooperative project with the University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and Michiga State University Cooperative Extension Service (MSU) to digitize two collections;1,000 hand-colored botanical prints fr m Curtis Botanical Magazine (1787-1904) and 1,000 slide images of plant pests and diseases. CONTACT: Pamela R. Mason, Information Systems Division, 10301 Baltimore Blvd., Beltsville, MD 20705-2~51, PH: (301)504-6 13, FAX: (301)504-7473 [mailto:pmason@nalusda.gov]
33.NATIONAL GALLERY DESC: Use imaging technology in exhibitions, conservation work and in managing the collections. The Micro Gallery projec (opens in 1995) includes interactive computers that will provide information about the permanent collection. A pilot co lection management project that combines collection information with high resolution digital images in also underway. REF: Baker, C. "A Marriage of High-Tech and Fine Art: n~e National Gallery's Micro Gallery Project." Program, 27, no. 4 October 1993): 341-52. CONTACT: Vicki Porter, Curator, Micro Gallery, National Gallery of Art, 6th & Constitution Avenues, NW, Washington D.C. 0565, Telephone: 202-942-6740
34.NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY DESC: Project utilizing Stokes Imaging Services to transfer over 300,000 slides and associated information such as capti n, dates, photographer and copyright information to a 35mm intermediary and then to videodisc. CONTACT: Maura Mulvihill, Director, Illustrations Library, National Geographic Society, 16th & M Streets, N.W., Washingt n, D.C. 20036, Telephone: 202-857-7492
35.NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM (UK) REFS: (1) Grimshaw, A. "Full Steam Ahead at the National Railway Museum." Information Management and Technology, 26, no. 6 (November 1993): 270-271. (2) Heap, Christine. "Photo Negative Database at the U.K.'s National Railway Museum." Advanced Imaging, 8, no. 2 (Februa y 1993): 36-39. (3) "Museum Scans Photos." Electronic Documents. 2. no. 1 (January 1993): 11.
36.NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY LIBRARY DESC: NRL has digitized significant portions of their collection of scientific reports with retrieval within the library and over a campus network by scientists at NRL. Plan to convert 7 million pages of documents to electronic format. CONTACT: Laurie Stackpole, Chief Librarian, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375,Telephone: 202-767-2357 REF: Folen, D.R. and L.E Stackpole. "Optical Storage and Retrieval of Library Material." Information Technology and Libr ries, 12, no. 2 (June 1993): 181-192.
37.NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY REF: Casorso, T.M. "NCSU Digitized Document Transmission Project: Improving Access to Agricultural Libraries." Electroni Library, 10, no. 5 (October 1992): 271-273.
38.PENN STATE UNIVERSITY DESC: Digitizing 1,000 hand-colored botanical prints from Curtis' Botanical Magazine (1787-1904). See National Agricultu al Library Photo Image Project. CONTACT: Sue Kellerman, Preservation Librarian, Penn State University, E506 Pattee Library, University Park, PA 16802, elephone: 814-865-1858 [mailto:lsk@psulias.bitnet]
39.RESEARCH LIBRARIES GROUP AVIADOR PROJECT DESC: Interactive videodisc system that links images of 41,000 architectural drawings from Columbia's Avery Library to t eir online catalog descriptions on RLIN. CONTACT: RLIN Information Center, Telephone: 900-537-7546 mailto:bl.ric@ rlg.stanford.edu] REF: "Architectural Drawings from Columbia on Videodisc." Campus-Wide Information Systems, 10. no.4 (July/August 1993): .
40.RESEARCH LIBRARIES GROUP DIGITAL IMAGE ACCESS PROJECT DESC: Eight RLG institutions (Amon Carter Museum, Columbia, Duke, Getty Center, Harvard, New York Public, Northwestern a d UC, Berkeley) are working together to explore the capabilities of digital image technology for managing access to phot graphic collections. 8,000 photographs will be digitized and image access software developed, tested and evaluated. CONTACT: RLIN Information Center, Telephone: 800-537-7546 (mailto:bl.ric@rlg.stanford.edu]
41.RUSH UNIVERSITY DESC: Have completed a project to transfer pathology slides to videodisc. CONTACT: Connie Weissman, Rush University, Dept. of Academic Computing Resources, 600 S. Paulina. Suite 433 AF, Chicago, IL 60612 [mailto:c_weissman-rush@ nova.novanet.org]
42.SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY REF: Bosseau, D.L. "Anatomy of a Small Step Forward: The Electronic Reserve Book Room at San Diego State University." Jo rnal of Academic Librarianship, 18 (January 1993): 366-368.
43.SCHOENBERG INSTITUTE DESC: Have two projects: (1) Using Kodak Pro Scan technology, have scanned 366 images of paintings and drawings by Arnol Schoenberg. Images are stored on CD-ROMs and will be used (initially) for on-line exhibits; and (2) Will be scanning a orrespondence collection (10,000+ items) of Arnold Schoenberg. Text (including English translation) and images will be added to a relational database inventory of the collection. CONTACT: R. Wayne Shoaf. Archivist, Arnold Schoenberg Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA 9008 -1 101; Telephone: 213-7404088; Fax: 213-7464507 [mailto:shoaf@calvin.usc.edu]
44.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DESC: Apple Library is working with the Smithsonian to make available digitized photos using the open,cross-platform sta dard, JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format). You can get software, text files, and the images themselves on ftp.apple.com n the alug/Smith directories. CONTACT: Steve Cisler, Apple Library, 10381 Bandley Dr. MS: 8C, Cupertino, CA 95014 [mailto:sac@apple.com]
45.SOTHERY'S LIBRARY DESC: Scanning images from auction catalogs to create a digital archive. 40.000 records have been scanned using a video amera, Quark software and a MAC computer for processing. and magnetic optical disks for Storage. CONTACT: Patricia Russac, Sotheby's Library, 1334 York Ave., New York, NY 10021, Telephone: 212-606-7265.
46.STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA) DESC: Three pilot projects underway: (1) are providing access to 50,000 digitized images from popular photographic video iscs via Telstra (a partnership of the State Library and Telcom/OTC); (2) have an electronic publishing program underway mostly oriented to the eduCational market; (3) are digitizing the papers of Sir J seph Banks and creating an integrated database of name and subject index records which will be linked to either a group f images (series) or a single image (document). This collection will be made available via CD-ROM format. CONTACT: Margy Burn (Director, Collection Services) or Alan Ventress (Manager, Australian Research Collections & Mitchel Librarian ), State Library of New S outh Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000,Australia, Telephone: (02) 230-1414; ax: (02) 2324816 [mailto:mburn@nswsl.slnsw.gov.au or aventress@ nswsl.slnsw.gov.au]
47.THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY DESC: Two projects, both using Kodak Photo CD technology: (1) scanning portions of the University Archives photograph co lection and (2) scanning images in the University's art collection (oil paintings, art on paper, sculpture). The images atabase will be indexed, made accessible for searching through Oracle software and networked for campus and remote access. CONTACT: Peter Nelson, University Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, Scott memorial Library,Thomas Jefferson Unive sity, Philadelphia, PA, Telephone: 215-955-7769 [mailto:nelson@jeflin.tju.edu]
48.SUNY-BINGHAMPTON REF: Willett, P., and D. Geraci. "Optical Scanning in an Academic library." College and Research Libraries News. 11 Dece ber 1992): 698-699.
49.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DESC: The U.S. Patent Office scans about 10,000 patent drawings a week to produce patent documents and The Official Gaze te. CONTACT: United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2021 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, VA 22202,Telephone: 703-308-081
50.UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA DESC: Have scanned photographic collections of scholarly value or regional significance and made them available to Gophe and WWW servers. CONTACT: Stuart Glogoff, Library Information Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ [mailto:sglogoff@ccit.arizona.ed ]
51.UNIVERSlTY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY DESC: The Architecture Slide Library (ASL) has a visual online catalog, SPIRO with digitized images.Images are scanned i -house using Barneyscan and Kodak Photo CDs and are available on the Internet through xhost. Directions for use are on t e UC-Berkeley InfoLib gopher under Affiliated Libraries. CONTACT: Maryly Snow, Slide Librarian, U.C. Berkeley, [mailto:slides@ced.berkeley.edu]
52.UNIVERSlTY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY DESC: Using the Argus system (Questor Systems), are creating an image database of objects in the museum collection. Item are photographed using a professional quality video camera and the analog signal digitized using a Targa board. The database currently contains about 17,000 images. An existing collection of several thousand sli es will be converted to PhotoCDs which can he converted to the Questor system. CONTACT: Don McClelland, Assistant Director, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, C 90024, Telephone: 310-925-4659, Fax: 310-206-7007[mailto:egw4dhm@mvs.oac.ucla.edu]
53.UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI DESC: The University of Cincinnati has begun a small project to digitize their Human Rights Collection. CONTACT: Taylor Fitchett, Head Librarian, Robert S. Marx Law Library, University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati, OH 45221, Tel phone: 513-556-3016
54.UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII DESC: The University of Hawaii Library's Pacific Collection is digitizing the Trust Territory Archives Photo Collection. CONTACT: Karen Peacock, University of Hawaii, [mailto:peacock@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu]
55.UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM DESC: Multimedia access to three archival research collections is being provided (Maine folklife center (Orono), Folger ibrary special collections (Orono) and Acadian archives (Fon Kent)). The image database includes bit-mapped images and a cii text files stored on optical disk. CONTACT: Marilyn Lutz, Project Director, University of Maine System Libraries, 5729 Raymond H.Folger Library, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, Telephone: (207) 581-1658, Fax: (207) 581-1653 [mailto:lutz@maine.Maine.Edu]
56.UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK CAPRINA DESC: Caprina is an online image project with art history. architecture, and American Studies images available to studen s, faculty, and staff via the campus network. CONTACT: Walter Gilbert, Asst. Dir., Computer Science Center, Manager: AT&T Teaching Theater,University of Maryland, Col ege Park, MD 20742-2411, Telephone: (301) 405-6727 [mailto:Walter_gilbert@umail.Umd.Edu]
57.UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST DESC: Cooperative project between UMass-Amherst and the Names Project to create an electronic archive of the AIDS Memori l Quilt. All sections of the quilt will be captured using a high end digitizing camera. A CD-ROM will be produced which ncludes images and associated data. CONTACT: Louise Bloomberg. Curator of ViSual Collections. Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, P one: 413 -5454061 [bloomberg mailto:@arthis.umass.edu]
58.UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS DESC: Have completed a pilot interactive digitizing project involving art history material. AVC and Authorware software re being used. CONTACT: Dr. Larry Gleeson, Art History Department, University of North Texas, Denton TX 76203
59.UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DESC: USC and Cornell are partners on a Commission on Preservation and Access project to explore the Kodak Photo-CD proc ss to digitize special collections materials. CONTACT: Vicki Steele, University of Southern California [mailto:vsteele@calvin.usc.edu]
60.UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE. - KNOXVlLLE AUDIO VISUAL CONNECTION PROJECT DESC: AVC project is developing multimedia materials for instruction and research in art history using IBM hardware and oftware. Also exploring the use of full-motion video and full-color images. CONTACT: Fred Martinson, Art Department, Claxton Add. 223. AVC project, c/o Educ. Leadership, University of Tennessee, K oxville,, TN 37996-3400. Phone: 615-974-6148, fax: 615-974-6136 [mailto:PA95816@utkvm1.bitnet]
61.UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE. - KNOXVlLLE GALSTON-BUSONI PROJECT DESC: Commission on Preservation and Access contracted project to explore the potential of digitized images as a long-te m preservation technique for both text and graphics and to experiment with the access and management of that collection. CONTACT: Tamara Miller. Library Automation, Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000
62.UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA DESC: Developing image storage and retrieval applications for the Fine Arts Department using Gopher to support images an document association. Text libraries can be searched for particular images and the associated image viewed. Sound file can also be stored and associated with an image record. CONTACT: Eric Jordan, Laboratory for Extended Media, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, P.O.Box 1700, Victori , B.C. Canada, V8W ZY2, Telephone: (604) 721-7313, Fax: (604) 721-7748 [mailto:ejordan@nero.uvic.ca]
63.UNIVERSlTY OF VIRGINIA DESC: The Center for Advanced Technology in the Humanities has two projects underway - one to digitize historical Civil ar era material, the other to digitize the complete works of Dante Rossetti. CONTACTS: Prof. Edward L. Ayers, History Department, Univ. of Virginia [mailto:ela@virginia.edu] or Edmund Berkeley, Jr. Direc or, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library [mailto:eb2c@poe.virginia.edu] or Barbie Selby. Documents Dept.. Univ. of Virginia Library [mailto:bm8z@virginia.edu]
64.VANDERBILT UNTVERSITY CLIPPER PROJECT DESC: The Clipper Project of the Peabody College Education Library is a Macintosh-based optical storage system which all ws easy retrieval of active reference files,including newspaper clippings, pamphlets,reports, and statistical informatio by end users. CONTACT: Peabody College Education Library, P.O. Box 325, Nashville, TN 37203-5601, Telephone:615-322-8095
65.WALT DISNEY PICTURES ANIMATION RESEARCH LlBRARY DESC: Investigating digitizing their archival collection of features and linking the full motion digital output to a rel tional database. CONTACT: Adina Lerner, Research Administrator, Animation Research Library, Walt Disney Pictures [mailto:adina@fa.disney. om]
66.YALE UNIVERSITY PROJECT OPEN BOOK DESC: Project to convert 10,000 books from microfilm to digital imagery to explore the usefulness of digital technology or preservation, to enhance intellectual access to the content of the books and to make the image and index data availab e remotely. CONTACT: Paul Conway. Preservation Department, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, C 06520 [mailto:pconway@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu]
INSTITUTIONS PLANNING PROJECTS
1.AMGEN INC. DESC: In the early stages of a pilot imaging project. Are currently gathering information and developing a needs assessm nt survey. CONTACT: Sherrill Cohn, 14-1-A-531, Amgen Inc.. 184O DeHavilland Dr.Thousand Oaks. CA 91320-1789 [mailto:scohn@amgen.com
2.FREER GALLERY DESC: Interested in using digital imaging for archiving existing photographic film, for producing working images that ca be sent via the Internet to research colleagues and for creating high-quality images for publication and distribution purposes. CONTACT: Christopher Maines, Conservation Scientist, Freer and Sackler Galleries. Smithsonian Institution, MRC 707, 1150 Independence Ave. SW Washington DC 20560, Telephone: 202-357-4550 x289 [mailto:mainesc@simsc.si.edu]
3.HARVARD UNIVERSITY DESC: Planning to selectively make color slides and color transparencies for sections of their map collection and then d gitize those, perhaps with a commercial vendor. CONTACT: David A. Cobb, Harvard Map Collection [mailto:dcobb@harvarda.harvard.edu]
4.KENYON COLLEGE DESC: In the planning stages of a project to digitize a slide collection. CONTACT: Carmen King, Fine Arts Librarian, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022 [mailto:king@kenyon.edu]
5.LESLEY COLLEGE DESC: Interested in putting their archival material into an electronic format, probably CDROM. CONTACT: Nancy Isaacs, Director of the Library, Lesley College [mailto:aacsn@al.mec.mass.edu]
6.RICE UNIVERSITY DESC: Interested in putting their 35mm slide collection in the Art and Art History Department into a digitized form. CONTACT: Rachel Dvoretzky, Slide Curator, Art and Art History, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251 [mailto:rachel@ricevm1 rice.e u]
7.ST. JOHN'S ABBEY AND UNIVERSITY DESC: Interested in digitally transferring 90,000 35mm microfilms of medieval manuscripts and providing access on the In ernet through Labyrinth or other WWW nodes. CONTACT: Peregrin Berres. OSB, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St. John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, MN 56321 7300, Telephone: 612-363-3514 [mailto:pberres@csbsju.edu]
8.STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA) DESC: Preparing a grant application for a preservation imaging project. CONTACT: Anne Beaumont, Database Administrator, State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Aus ralia, 3000 [mailto:anneb@ slv950.slv.vic.gov.au]
9.SUNY-COLLEGE AT BUFFALO DESC: Interested in creating an image database accessible on the campus network of several independent campus slide coll ctions. Currently developing a proposal and searching for funding sources for their project. CONTACT: Carol Richards. Coordinator of lnformation and Access Services. E.H. Butler Library, SUNY College at Buffalo, 1 00 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222-1095 Phone: 716-878-6336. FAX: 716-878-3134 [mailto:richarcj@ snyburva.cs.snyhuf.edu
10.SUNY-UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO DESC: Interested in creating a networked, multi-media computing and information resource incorporating digitized text, s und and graphics for music and visual arts. They are undertaking a feasibility study to identify expectations and requir ments of the system. CONTACT: Nancy Nuzzo, Associate Librarian, Music Library, Baird Hall, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-4700. Te ephone : 716-645-2924 [mailto:mmlnuzzo@ubvm.cc.bu ffalo.edu]
11.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY DESC: In the planning stages of a project to digitize rare law materials including manuscripts and incunables. CONTACT: Lucia Diamond, Robbins Collection, School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-249 , Telephone: 510-642-5095 [mailto:diamondl@boalt.berkeley.edu]
12.UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS DESC: ln the very early planning stages of creating a mini-electronic exhibition of prints and drawings in the Spencer M seum of Art. Images would be available to remote users via the network (as a WWW site) and browsable with Mosaic. CONTACT: Steven Goddard, Assoc. Prof. of Art History, University of Kansas mailto:[mailto:goddard@falcon.cc.ukans.edu]
13.UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DESC: Interested in developing a visual database of historical Southeast Asian images relating to ethnography, tourism a d architecture/art. CONTACT: Randal Baier, Southeast Asia Collection, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. MI [mailto:usergg03@um.cc.umich.edu
14.UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEMORIAL ART GALLERY DESC: In Ule planning stages of digitizing images of objects in the Gallery's collection using Photo-CD technology with mages made available over the Internet. CONTACT: Lucy Bjorklund Harper, Director of Library Services, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Roche ter, NY [mailto:lbjh@dbl.cc.rochester.edu]
15.UNIVERSITY OF WASHlNGTON DESC: Investigating some possible projects, especially for photographs. CONTACT: Gary L. Menges, Head, Special Collections & Preservation, Allen Library, FM-25, University of Washington, Seatt e, WA 98195 [mailto:menges@u.washington.edu]
16.WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE DESC: Are planning to develop an archival CD-ROM of audio and visual materials relating to musician Morris Lawrence. CONTACT: Randal Baier, Learning Resource Center, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor. MI [mailto:usergg03@um.cc.umich edu]
SOME OTHER ON-GOING PRPOJECTS [Not included in the ALA List above]
1. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Card Catalog Conversion Project Description:The Princeton University and VTLS Imaging Services have just finished a joint project to scan the libraries' public union card catalog, containing 6.5 million 3x5 catalog cards, to create a database of digitized images. The database represents 1.75 million titles acquired and cataloged before 1980, predating Princeton's library automation and online catalog. Initially, the image database will not be integrated with the libraries' online catalog, but will work in conjunction with it. The 6.5 million images represent the LARGEST IMAGE DATABASE created in a library. The system uses the VTLS ImageManager software for retrieval. The project will preserve valuable information, permit network access from non-library locations, provide enhanced searching capabilities to the libraries collection, create more effi ient tools for maintaining the catalog, and provide a relatively cost-effective and error-free alternative to standard retrospective conversion. Contact: Eileen Henthorne, Firestone Library, Princeton University, NJ mailto:[mailto:henthrne@firestone.princeton.edu]
2. CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Visual Imaging/Automation Project Description: The main objective is to set standards for full and comprehensive intellectual access via a system that is owerful, easy to use, and with access methods that meet the state-of-the-art standards for libraries, museums, etc. This includes high quality digital images.The collection contains photographs, maps, broadsides, rare books, ephemera, etc. Contact: Robert MacKimmie, Curatorial Director of Photography California Historical Society, San Francisco 415-567-1848 mailto:rm@califhistsoc.org]
3. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY Multimedia Project Description: Patrons can search the bibliographic records in NAL's OPAC and retrieve full text, images and sound related to those records using VTLS InfoStation software. Researchers can also use hypermedia links to annotate the records with explanations or to create n w links to other images or related documents. The scanned database consists of materials from three core collections: aq aculture, food and nutrition, and agricultural trade and marketing. Part of the collection comes from NAL's CDROM produc ion, while the remainder was scanned from NAL's print collection. NAL has also added digital audio recordings which are inked to images by hypermedia links to provide voice explanations to selected images that are not self-explanatory. The database will eventually contain 10,000 pages of full text, gray and color images, and audio enhancements linked to elected images. Contact: Richard Thompson [mailto:rthomp@nalusda.gov]
4. SWISS NATIONAL LIBRARY Imaging Project Description: Swiss National Library has recently started a project to create images from their collection and link it to its OPAC using VTLS InfoStation software. These images will be stored on multiple Kodak Photo CD's. Contact: Dr. Ruth Wuest, SNL Bern Switzerland [mailto:wuest@clients.switch.ch]
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