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Item Archival Impact: Increasing Connections to Collections through Digitization(2016-04-15) Pike, Robin C.Digitization of collections can help to improve internal workflows, make materials more accessible, and create new and engaging relationships with users. Robin Pike from the University of Maryland will discuss how they factor requests for access into selection for digitization and how they track the use of digitized materials. Title of the presentation was "Managing Digitization Priorities with Metrics." Session 1 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference spring 2016 meeting.Item Audiovisual Alacrity: Managing Timely Access to Audiovisual Collections(Society of American Archivists, 2014-08-16) Pike, Robin C.; Hagan, Siobhan; Villereal, StevenItem Delaware and Maryland in the News(2017-05-12) Pike, Robin C.; Olney-Zide, MollyOne-hour workshop presented at the 2017 Maryland Library Association and Delaware Library Association Joint Library Conference. Delaware and Maryland in the News will discuss the National Endowment for the Humanities National Digital Newspaper Program and the two states' newspaper digitization projects. You will learn how to use the Chronicling America database for different levels of research, and some educational and outreach tools to promote this resource.Item Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting: Management and Production of Digital Collections(2014-03-20) Pike, Robin C.The Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting plan was written in 2012 and revised 2013-2014, as a five-year plan for the newly established department at the University of Maryland Libraries under the Digital Systems and Stewardship Division. The plan focuses on increasing digitization production, both in-house and through vendors, and creates a model for the management of this production.Item Digitization Initiatives Committee Charter(2013-08) Pike, Robin C.; Archer, Joanne; Foss, Heather; Harrington, Eileen; Montori, CarlaThis is the charter of the Digitization Initiatives Committee (DIC) of the University of Maryland Libraries. The committee was established “to collect and document proposed outsourced digitization projects across the UMD Libraries, match these projects with available or proposed fiscal resources, and prioritize the projects...based on available fiscal resources, Libraries strategic initiatives, division priorities, and available staff resources for the specific projects.”Item Digitization Project Prioritization and Funding(2017-04-21) Pike, Robin C.Digitization projects compete for funding and other resources with other programmatic functions of archives and libraries. The speakers in this session will discuss their strategies for transforming digitization activities from ad-hoc projects into a systematic part of their operations. They will also compare the business models or strategies employed by institutions with differing sizes, staffing levels, and funding models to identify and secure funding, prioritize resources and projects, and manage digitization projects to completion.Item Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting(2016-11-17) Pike, Robin C.; McElrath, DouglasThis presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and and related stakeholders held on November 17, 2016. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project is in its fifth year and third grant phase. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to brainstorm outreach and programming ideas.Item Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting 2019(2019-04-18) McElrath, Douglas; Pike, Robin C.; McClanahan, Pamela A.This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and related stakeholders held on April 18, 2019. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project is in its seventh year and fourth grant phase. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to brainstorm outreach and programming ideas.Item Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting Fall 2020(2020-10-28) McClanahan, Pamela A.; McElrath, Douglas; Pike, Robin C.This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and related stakeholders held on October 28, 2020. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to determine title selection for Phase 5 of the grant (2020-2022).Item “Is This Enough?” Digitizing Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Archives Media(2015-07-16) Parker, Bria; Pike, Robin C.; Novara, Vincent, J.Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) at University of Maryland Libraries collects performing arts materials that preserve performance practice, instruction, and scholarship, including the full scope of audiovisual (AV) formats. The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Archives at SCPA contains, among common print archival materials, a significant number of AV materials including performances, workshops, and choreography demonstrations. This collection of AV materials is exemplar of the numerous challenges facing AV digitization and preservation projects in university libraries and archives. The collection poses several metadata challenges as metadata standards and best practices for video materials lag behind those for audio and text materials. Additionally, archival collections are often not described to the item level, but in digitization projects, item level metadata is frequently expected to aid in discovery. Likewise, there are technical and personnel challenges in working with a vendor in creating a contract, negotiating the statement of work, scheduling the project, and gaining the staff necessary to support a new project or digitization initiative within a subject area. All of these issues cause angst and uncertainty when making decisions, at times leaving us wondering: “Are we doing enough?” In our presentation, we will outline the decisions we made for this project, our ultimate workflow, and our lessons learned moving forward.Item Management of Digital Programs in Special Collections(2017-07-19) Pike, Robin C.Class lecture on digitizing special collections for CUA CLSC 747 Special Collections. Presented in 2015, 2016, and 2017 with minor modifications.Item Managing and Maneuvering Mass Digitization(2014-04-25) Pike, Robin C.Robin Pike's Spring 2014 MARAC presentation, "Managing and Maneuvering Mass Digitization," S18, April 25, 2014, Rochester, NYItem Managing Audiovisual Digitization(2015-06-04) Pike, Robin C.A synopsis and preparation presentation of a Society of American Archivists pre-conference workshop (workshop held on August 17, 2015.Item Managing Digitization Priorities with Metrics(2016-04-15) Pike, Robin C.This presentation was one of four during a Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference presentation on April 15, 2016. Digitization of collections can help to improve internal workflows, make materials more accessible, and create new and engaging relationships with users. Laurie Gemmill Arp will discuss the LYRASIS Digitization Collaborative, created to assist institutions with their digitization needs, and how it has worked to help institutions increase connections with users. Robin Pike from the University of Maryland will discuss how they factor requests for access into selection for digitization and how they track the use of digitized materials. Laura Drake Davis of James Madison University will discuss the establishment of a formal digitization program, its impact on users, and the resulting increased use of their collections. Linda Tompkins-Baldwin will discuss Digital Maryland’s partnership with the Digital Public Library of America to provide access to archives held by institutions without a digitization program.Item Maryland Digital Newspapers(2017-06-14) Pike, Robin C.; Wack, Rebecca E.A discussion of the United States Newspaper Program, and how that led to the National Digital Newspaper Program. The progress and activities of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, and a demonstration on how to use Chronicling America. The progress made in hosting newspapers at the University of Maryland, College Park Libraries, and how we hope to turn this into the Maryland Digital Newspaper Repository.Item Maryland Newspapers in Chronicling America(2017-06-08) Pike, Robin C.The Historic Maryland Newspaper project, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant project, has digitized over 211,000 Maryland newspaper pages since 2012, and is currently in its third grant to digitize more than 100,000 additional pages. The newspapers are ingested into Chronicling America, the Library of Congress database, which is freely accessible to the public, and now contains over 11.7 million newspaper pages published across the US. This presentation will demonstrate several features of Chronicling America and other extras so that librarians can use this resource in reference inquiries or other projects.Item Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Up Digitization Projects During the Pandemic(Association of Moving Image Archivists, 2021-04-15) Pike, Robin C.; McClanahan, PamelaThe University of Maryland Libraries received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2019 to digitize the Dance Exchange collection, a video collection of performances and rehearsals and their corresponding paper programs. This paper will discuss a brief history of the project and content, best practice technical standards implemented by the Libraries and expanded for this project, scaling up workflows built to handle a project of a few hundred items to a project of over 1,100 items, changing digitization workflows due to pandemic closures and the need to move the project work remotely, and a repository and digital preservation archive migration that occurred during the course of the project. The report will share how we overcame challenges and will implement the changes we made to future av digitization projects.Item Symposium on Researching African Americans in Newspapers(University of Maryland Libraries, 2021-10-21) McClanahan, Pamela; McElrath, Douglas; Pike, Robin C.; Davis, Maya; Pinnick, TimothyA virtual symposium offered live on October 21, 2021 through Zoom about researching African Americans in newspapers. Guest speakers included Maya Davis, Director of the Riversdale House Museum in Prince George's County, who discussed her research on the Legacy of Slavery project, and Tim Pinnick, an independent scholar, lecturer, author, and entrepreneur, who discussed genealogical research methods.Item University of Maryland Libraries: Digital Preservation Policy(2014-01-07) Knies, Jennie Levine; Pike, Robin C.; Archer, Joanne; Novara, Vincent J.; Montori, CarlaThe University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries, in keeping with its mission “To enable the intellectual inquiry and learning required to meet the education, research and community outreach mission of the university,” serves as a trusted caretaker of the UMD Libraries’ collections, including those in digital format. The Digital Preservation Policy supports this mission and is the highest-level digital preservation policy document in the UMD Libraries. The Policy makes explicit the UMD Libraries’ commitment to preserving content selected for retention by collection managers. It defines a comprehensive digital preservation program for both born-analog and born-digital collections. The audience for this policy includes UMD Libraries employees, digital content contributors, donors, and users.Item Using Chronicling America: Genealogy(2016) Pike, Robin C.; McElrath, DouglasThis brochure is to be distributed by institutions, and to be used to assist genealogists in using Chronicling America, the Library of Congress database that hosts newspapers. This brochure was created by the Co-Principal Investigators of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, so it has a focus on Maryland newspapers.