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    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.
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    Using Chronicling America: Genealogy
    (2016) Pike, Robin C.; McElrath, Douglas
    This 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.
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    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.
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    Delaware and Maryland in the News
    (2017-05-12) Pike, Robin C.; Olney-Zide, Molly
    One-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.
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    Digitization Initiatives Committee Charter
    (2013-08) Pike, Robin C.; Archer, Joanne; Foss, Heather; Harrington, Eileen; Montori, Carla
    This 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.”