Our pilot digital collection was the KMOX sheet music digitization project.
Lovejoy Library’s Music Special Collections includes a gift from KMOX of over 48,000 music titles compiled by the St. Louis-area radio station: the live studio orchestra’s complete performing music library.
My second digital collection experience, the digitized presentation of a Civil War diary, was achieved in collaboration with the Social Sciences Librarian and a temporary staff worker under her supervision who had transcribed the entire diary.
Organizational change has provided a source of external pressure concurrent with and affecting the progress of our digital initiatives and priorities.
Lovejoy Library’s dean left near the end of 2007 after a long tenure as both Dean of Library and Information Services and Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology.
I reached the end of my digital collection backlog with the completion of Lovejoy’s fourth CONTENTdm-based collection in September 2009. I subsequently met with some of my colleagues to brainstorm ideas for additional digital collections. The result was a fantastic array of proposals employing audio and video files, featuring collaboration with other local institutions, and creating scholarly research products on a digital platform.