In mid-June, I made a visit to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I gave an Encore launch presentation to library staff. UNL has been a development partner with Innovative this summer to introduce harvesting of OAI-compliant databases to Encore—we’re pretty excited about this, as UNL has such a rich portfolio of digital resources to harvest, such as archival photo collections (including the Willa Cather image here), finding aids written in EAD, and full-text transcriptions written in TEI.
Then, in early July, Jerry Kline and I made a visit to Scottsdale, Arizona, (see picture below) where Aimee Fifarek had been kind enough to arrange for the temperature to be under 110 degrees especially for me! (July is often one of the colder months of the year in San Francisco, so you can imagine the shock to one’s metabolism when it’s suddenly 50 degrees warmer!) Our visit was to launch a development partnership with the Scottsdale Public Library, one of seven development-partner libraries helping Innovative build a new digital library solution called Content Pro.
L to r: Aimee Fifarek, Technologies & Content Manager; Richard Howley, Lead Cataloging Librarian; Rice Majors, Content Pro Product Manager; Kathy Schoepe, Technology Coordinator; Rita Hamilton, Library Director; Jerry Kline, Innovative’s Chairman and CEO; and Leigh Conrad, Lead Librarian in the Scottsdale Room.
We had an enthusiastic response to the demonstration we gave of the Content Pro system and it sparked a lively brainstorming session among the library managers and their Content Pro team as to the possibilities that this could open for them to engage their community in capturing and describing their local history.
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