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DLA History - About the Scholarly Communications Project and the Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Special Collections Manuscripts Guide Oral History Collection Special Collections at the Virtual Library of Virginia A consortium of academic libraries in Virginia, VIVA was established in 1993 with funds from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) to create a network of shared electronic resources for students and faculty and to facilitate cooperation among its members. XTF: Search Virginia Heritage - Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia Virginia Heritage

Virginia Heritage is a consolidated database of more than 11,000 finding aids which provide information about the vast array of manuscripts and archival materials housed in historical societies, libraries, museums, colleges and universities across the Commonwealth. The continuous addition of new and updated finding aids makes this a great tool for discovering primary source materials documenting the history, culture, and people of Virginia.

Virtual Library of Virginia - viva

VIVA benefits Virginia: Through VIVA, students and faculty at institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth have access to digital and print journals, books, reference sources, and databases that are essential for educational success and research enterprise. Whether you are at a community college or a large public university, a small liberal arts college or an elite private university, the same VIVA is available to you.VIVA is funded by the Virginia General Assembly and the VIVA member institutions, and is sponsored by the State Council of Higher Education (SCHEV). schev

Openglam is an okfn iniative to promote free and open access to digital cultural heritage, held by glam: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums.

The Definition of Open

A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to give credit to the author and/or making any resulting work available under the same terms as the original work.

iniative aims to make digitized cultural heritage available to the public as much as possible, allowing users not only to enjoy the data, but also allowing them to contribute, share, reuse, and remix the data.

helps cultural institutions to open up their content and data through hands-on workshops, documentation, and guidance. supports a network of open culture evangelists through its Working Group to meet its goals.

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Show.Me

Show.Me is all about the wonderful world of museums, galleries and archives. We love the objects held in their collections, the stories those objects tell and the games and films museums make. We created Show Me to help you discover, enjoy and learn about those things too.

VanGO > Yourself Recreate artworks with your friends

glam - Outreach Wiki

The GLAM-WIKI project supports GLAMs and other institutions who want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-access, freely-reusable content for the public.

Different GLAMs have different needs and goals for their projects. From our existing partnerships, we have compiled a number of model projects, and we have documented case studies on how they work in practice.

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Why Libraries [Still] Matter Knight News Challenge - Libraries Opens for Entries Share Your Inspiration for Knight News Challenge: Libraries News Challenge to Explore Role of Libraries in the Digital Age News Challenge - How Might We Leverage Libraries as a Platform to Build More Knowledgeable Communities?

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Lawyers for Libraries Law for Librarians State Privacy Laws Regarding Library Records Virginia Library Association - vla The 2014 Virginia Library Association Conference, AGENTS OF CHANGE, will be held October 22-24, 2014, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Williamsburg, VA. VA Lib Comm

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tor (vla.lisav@cox.net) for VLA Website or Listserv issues please contact Lisa Varga The Virginia Library Association: A Retrospective by Alyssa Altshuler Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Library Publishing currently manages operations for producing journal and conference publications. We support workflow from author submissions and peer review to article, journal, and conference proceedings publication. We are open to supporting other publishing modes of interest to the university community, including Open Educational Resources. (OER are online instructional materials that have been designed for use in teaching and learning that are publicly available without fees particularly for use by educators and students.) Contact Gail McMillan about library publishing and Anita Walz about OER.

VTechWorks is Virginia Tech's institutional repository, created and managed by the library. VTechWorks collects and archives the intellectual works of faculty and students. Learn more from Nathan Hall, the VTechWorks Librarian. http://www.loc.gov/homepage/connect.html">Connecting with the Library http://www.lib.vt.edu/about/fdlp.html http://www.metaarchive.org/">MetaArchive

Declaration of Interdependence by cultural memory organizations, for digital preservation In the belief that it is our own responsibility to preserve digital files, the member organizations have agreed to band together for the common good of the institutions we serve and scholars around the world.To that end, we have joined MetaArchive, a digital preservation network that empowers organizations to preserve content safely and cost-efficiently, while retaining complete ownership and control of all digital files.May our cooperative approach become a powerful force for the free exchange of ideas and knowledge everywhere. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Preserved Collection This collection consists of thousands of scholar-contributed datasets and digital images related to the slave trade. The database contents and website, viewable at www.slavevoyages.org, are preserved in the MetaArchive and routinely versioned by the LOCKSS software. The Folger Shakespeare Library Preserved Collection This collection consists of over 40,000 images of digitized books, art and manuscripts, many viewable at Folger's LUNA Insight repository at luna.folger.edu. Currently, more than 4 TB of master tiff images are now preserved in the MetaArchive network. http://www.vivalib.org/aboutviva/listservs.html">viva listservs The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is the consortium of nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members include all of the 39 state-assisted colleges and universities (the 6 doctoral universities, 9 4-year institutions, and 24 community and two-year branch colleges), as well as 32 of the independent (private, nonprofit) institutions and the Library of Virginia. Virtual Road Trip: Virginia Young Adult Library Services Association Civic Engagement Materials for Choose Privacy Week ALA’s Libraries Fostering Civic Engagement MIG website

Library Connection Inc.

Library Connection is a non-profit cooperative of 30 public and academic libraries which share an integrated library system (CONNECT) and other technological innovations that improve the delivery of services. Library Connection and CONNECT are the successors to CircCess, which was started in 1979 by approximately 10 libraries in the greater Hartford region. CircCess was one of the first groups to combine the collections of public and academic libraries on the same automated library system. Campaign for Reader Privacy dml the Digital Media and Learning Competition

The Digital Media and Learning Competition is a program designed to find and to inspire the most novel uses of new media in support of connected learning. Over the past five years, the Competition has awarded $10 million to more than 100 projects — including games, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds, social networks, and digital badge platforms — that explore how technologies are changing the way people learn and participate in daily life. The Competition is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through a grant to the University of California, Irvine, and is administered by HASTAC. Museums Connecting Cultural Tourists: More Substance Over Style, Please The Public Library as a Community Hub for Connected Learning Slidsshare The Public Library as a Community Hub for Connected Learning (.pdf) Libraries as stem to steam Hubs - Internet Librarian Conference - talk to them about localwiki possible implementations

Mozillarian - maker librarians connect at the Mozilla maker librarian blog: http://mozillarian.org/ Understanding Your Audiences' Digital Engagement

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FurtherField We believe that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies.

The Digital Shift: Libraries @ the Center virtual conference will focus the attention of library professionals on libraries’ central role in the transformation of our culture from analog experiences to digital experiences Circulating Ideas is the librarian interview podcast hosted by @stevelibrarian Librarians as Delegates glam Posts on Public Lab

References and Resources

http://www.ibiblio.org/ ibibilio The Public's Library and Digital Archive Home to one of the largest “collections of collections” on the Internet, ibiblio.org is an online public library with freely available software and information, for topics such as music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. With between 12 million to 16 million worldwide transactions per day, it is a resource used frequently by audiences of all interests and backgrounds. Project Gutenberg (the famous free book archive) to etree.org (where fans of tape-friendly bands share concert music), and from charities and non-profits both locally and worldwide (especially those of the Tibetan government in exile) to video documentaries of folk practice, ibiblio.org hosts one of the largest collections of collections on the Internet. http://terasaur.org/ Gigabytes to Terabytes terasaur makes it easy to discover or publish material too large for regular web sites. Consumers will find a variety of content, including music, video, software, and research data sets. For publishers, terasaur allows you to distribute hundreds of megabytes of high quality video or share terabytes of research data with your colleagues. Start using terasaur today to meet your large data sharing needs http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/rss.php VAGARA (Virginia Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators) http://www.vagara.org/ Virginia Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators VAGARA is a statewide not-for-profit organization whose members are affiliated with state or local government and who are concerned with the management, storage, maintenance, retrieval, and disposition of public records. FDLP Federal Depository Congressionally Designated Despository for U.S. Government documents. Public Access to the Government Documents is Guaranteed by Public Law.