It would be useful to have an indication of any new digitisation projects people see as a priority to be worked on in 2009. Work on digitising the pre-2006 theses will continue but we need to decide where else we should concentrate our efforts.
Some projects have been begun but not completed. E.g. The glass-plate negative collection and the copyprint collection.
There are other projects that have been suggested in the past and have not been started – the Logie Collection, the Engineering Library photograph collection, the Leo Bensemann Collection, the Liszt scores, the Ursula Bethell archives, the Karl Popper papers, The Christchurch Teachers College memorabilia collection., the Erskine lectures and History Now.
There are doubtless also new projects that have not yet had project proposals prepared If you wish to propose a new project please fill out a Digitisation Project Proposal form http://camelot.libr.canterbury.ac.nz/projects/Digitization%20Project%20Proposal.doc and forward it to me by 14 March 2009.
In addition to projects, there are some routine things occurring in different parts of the Library like the archive inventories, e-reserves and contributing to the New Zealand Legal Information Institute that are now considered business-as-usual.
Cynthia.
Hi Cynthia
The Engineering Library photograph collection was moved to MB some time ago, so is no longer a discrete collection as such. We’ll give some thought to other possible projects.
Dawn
If possible, we should complete the work on collection of glass plate negatives as a priority. They are very prone to deterioration.
Bronwyn
Sorry everyone, I won’t be here on 14th March. Could we make it 12th March, please? Cynthia.
Just a reminder to submit a proposal by tomorrow for anything that you would like considered for digitisation in 2009. Cynthia
What with it being the International Year of Astronomy how about we scan every UC Astronomy thesis we can get our hands on?
~ http://www.iya2009.org/