The only drawback with Flickr is its inability to support OAIcompliancy. We are hoping to acquire an open-source image
management system that will correct this. Meanwhile, we continue to
digitize archival images as needed, and have even begun digitizing
important historical publications frequently used by researchers,
which we are planning to post on the Archives page of the Libraries’
Website. There is no question but that we have experienced a sea
change in our digitization efforts as a result of our two grants, and our
story vividly illustrates not only the old maxim that success breeds
success, but also that long-term impetus can be generated from a
single opportunity.
Acknowledgments: The success of our projects was achieved only
because of the dedication and expertise of the members of the project
teams, whose members included Amanda Schriber, Brian Cross,
Lorraine Smith, Vernon Bigman, Stephen Klein, and Michael Nolasco.
I am particularly grateful to Lorraine Smith, until recently the Visual
Resources Curator at the Pratt Institute Libraries, who was our image
cataloger for the 2005 project and supervised the digitization process
in 2006 as Acting Visual Resources Curator. She was responsible for
coping with many of the technical issues described above and
reviewed this chapter to make sure my explanations were accurate.