DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND YOU

PATRICIA HSWE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES | 22 JANUARY 2016

Reiss, Winold, “African Phantasy: Awakening,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/b945bc5a8bda295b5e0765a190a3e075.

COPYRIGHTED?

WHAT WE’LL COVER TODAY

▸ What is a digital collection?

▸ Why use digital collections? Benefits?

▸ Tips for finding digital collections

▸ Switching gears to focus on YOU

“Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 52 (erschrocklicher Comet, 1300), “ Wikimedia Commons,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Augsburger_Wunderzeichenbuch,_Folio_52.jpg

WHAT IS A

DIGITAL COLLECTION? HOW DO YOU

KNOW?

CITATION GUIDANCE PROVIDED?

FEATURES OF A GOOD DIGITAL COLLECTION - TOWARD A CHECKLIST

▸ Scope of collection defined? Sufficient description of its items?

▸ Are conditions of use clearly expressed?

▸ Attribution information?

▸ Are different sizes of the images available for download and/or to save?

▸ Navigation of site and collection(s)?

▸ What are the different things you can do with the items in the collection?

▸ Is there contact information, in case you have questions?

GOOGLE IS NOT A DIGITAL COLLECTION

BENEFITS OF USING LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

▸ Rich in primary sources

▸ You know where the image comes from

▸ Most are openly, freely available

▸ Think about typical creators of digital collections

▸ More use = more understanding for creating better collections

CREATIVE COMMONS

IS YOUR

FRIEND.

SUGGESTIONS FOR FINDING

- GOOD, DECENT, EVEN AWESOME -

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS, BUT NOTE:

GOOGLE IS STILL NOT A DIGITAL COLLECTION.

IS THERE INFO ON PERMITTED USES?

EXPLORE! TRY THESE SITES -

▸ Biodiversity Heritage Library

▸ http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

▸ Creative Commons Search

▸ http://search.creativecommons.org/

▸ Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

▸ http://dp.la/info/education/

▸ Europeana

▸ http://europeana.eu/portal/

Beautiful ferns from original w

ater-color drawings after nature /.

Boston :D. Lothrop and Co.,1882, [c1881]..

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48314765

QUALITY OF IMAGES?

EXPLORE THESE, TOO!

▸ Internet Archive

▸ https://archive.org/index.php

▸ Wayback Machine: https://archive.org/web/

▸ Library of Congress

▸ https://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

▸ https://www.loc.gov/education/

▸ New York Public Library Digital Collections

▸ http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

"Hikers in the Country N

ear New

York City,” The N

ew York Public Library D

igital Collections. 1860 - 1920. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/item

s/510d47d9-bc17-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

DON’T FORGET: YOU ARE AN AUTHOR, TOO!

NEED IMAGES FOR A LESSON PLAN?

▸ Search suggested sites or Google

▸ Check rights statement - copyrighted

▸ Is there information about image so you can cite it?

▸ Once lesson plan is created, what permissions will you attach to it? How will you allow it to be used? “Coe’s New Drawing Cards for School” (page 18),

The Pennsylvania State University Libraries Digital Collections http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arted/

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ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO YOUR DIGITAL IDENTITY?

YOUR ONLINE IDENTITY?WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT

GOOGLE YOURSELF?WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU

"WE ARE WHAT WE PRETEND TO BE, SO WE MUST BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT WE PRETEND TO BE."

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE YOUR ONLINE PRESENCE?

WHY CULTIVATE A DIGITAL / ONLINE

IDENTITY?

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DOWNSIDES TO HAVING A DIGITAL IDENTITY?“Mask 9,” anoldent via Flickr, CC BY-SA.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/anoldent/5340620576/

YOU’RE READY TO CULTIVATE YOUR ONLINE PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY . . . NOW WHAT?

THIS IS PENN STATE’S

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY.

FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND

STAFF MAY DEPOSIT THEIR

WORK HERE TO SHARE IT

BROADLY - AND BE

ASSURED THAT IT WILL BE

PRESERVED FOR

CONTINUING ACCESS.

HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE FOUND ONLINE?

GETTING STARTED: TOOLS AND TIPS OF THE TRADE - 1

▸ Use ScholarSphere to share the BEST of your work (capstone project, master’s paper)

▸ Start a website that shows who you are professionally.

▸ THINK: What is the story you want to tell about yourself that is important for prospective employers to know?

LEVERAGE EXISTING TOOLS THAT ARE EASY

TOOLS AND TIPS OF THE TRADE - 2

▸ Profile services

▸ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/

▸ GoogleScholar Profiles - https://scholar.google.com/

▸ ORCID - http://orcid.org/

▸ Social media platforms/tools

▸ Facebook

▸ Twitter

▸ Pinterest - great for keeping track of images, too“Growing Social Media,” mkhmarketing, CC BY 2.0,

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mkhmarketing/8539048913/

EXAMPLES OF PROFESSIONAL SITES

QUESTIONS? CONTACT INFO: PHSWE@PSU.EDU | TWITTER: @PMHSWE

THANK YOU!!