Walker Library launched its installation of CONTENTdm in late
summer of 2007. Installation of the dedicated server and
implementation of the software was handled by our Systems
Librarian. Initial configuration of the CONTENTdm software was
done by Ken Middleton when our first collection, MTSU Memory, was
established. The remainder of the Digital Initiatives team members
had been recruited and we had received guidance from our Dean on
the direction that he would like us to take. Everyone on the team had
some experience with digitization projects but none had worked with
CONTENTdm. In an ideal world we would have enjoyed a beta period
of testing the system and training the graduate students. In the real
world, the clock was already ticking on a grant project and the