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Innovations for Access in Alabama: 1) Testing VuFind as an Index for AlabamaMosaic; 2) New Membership Structure for Alabama Digital Preservation Network
(2014-06-13)
In the last decade, the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) has launched two statewide initiatives dealing with digitized cultural heritage materials. The first, AlabamaMosaic, is a digital library of materials ...
Testing VuFind as a Collection Index for AlabamaMosaic
(2014-06-13)
In 2005, the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries launched AlabamaMosaic: a consortial collection of Alabama cultural heritage materials digitized by 21 member partners. At present, all partners use OCLC’s CONTENTdm content ...
This Goodly Land: Creating an Online Reference Source
(2019-08-19)
This paper describes the creation of the online literary map This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape, from January 2005 through June 2011. The literary map was designed and created at Auburn University by a small ...
Because You’re You: Factors Influencing Selection in a Digital Sheet Music Collection
(2014-06-13)
For this study, we used Google Analytics to evaluate factors influencing user selection of specific works in a collection of digitized sheet music. These factors were: participation in a collaborative index (Sheet Music ...
Profiling Digital Collection Users: Using Google Analytics to Learn More about Users of an ETDs Collection
(2014-06-13)
This poster presents preliminary Google Analytics usage data for a collection of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Correlation of page views with page type, user location, and source (referring link) shows that, ...
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Limited Shelf Life or Long Tail?
(2018-09-04)
When we make theses and dissertations available electronically, we do so because we believe that these documents have value for researchers. We do not know, however, if this value has a time limit or if it will be sustained. ...
A Discovery of Trees: A Comparison and Evaluation of Five Web-Scale Discovery Tool Services
(2014-06-13)
Web scale discovery tool services allow users to search all of a library’s physical items, licensed electronic content, and local digital collections via a single search box and receive relevance ranked results. Prior ...
AlabamaMosaic: Using VuFind to Index a Distributed Digital Collection
(2014-06-13)
Panel Abstract: College of Charleston, Clemson and the Alabama Mosaic Project will discuss their respective decisions to replace CONTENTdm with open source software. These institutions present three different perspectives ...
AlabamaMosaic: A Distributed Digital Collection of Cultural Heritage Materials
(2014-06-13)
Panel abstract: Virtual libraries are consolidated indexes of digital items harvested from different repositories. Started by a handful of institutions in 2001, AlabamaMosaic now contains almost 80,000 items from more than ...
AlabamaMosaic: A Short History
(2014-06-13)
Presentation on the history of AlabamaMosaic.