Category Archives: Digital Services

Come tag our photos!

Posted on January 13, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Acumen, Delivery Methodology | Tagged | 1 Comment

We’re proud to announce that Acumen now has integrated tagging functionality. But what the heck does that mean? Let’s say you’re looking at an item in Acumen and you think: How in the world would someone interested in X find this item … Continue reading →

Searching Acumen – Limiting by Field

Posted on June 16, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Acumen, Delivery Methodology | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Acumen’s simple one-box search is pretty robust, searching multiple fields by default, but what if you need to pinpoint a specific field in the record? In the second in our series of posts on searching our digital repository, Acumen, we discuss searching by … Continue reading →

Interested in digitization?

Posted on June 2, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Digital Services, Digitization, Employment | Tagged | Leave a comment

We’re looking for a new Digitization Technologist.  Are you looking for an interesting, challenging position where you’ll learn about digitization of images, text, and audio?  Where you’ll expand your developing scripting skills, learn XML (if you don’t already know it) … Continue reading →

Searching Acumen – Using Tabs to Limit by Format

Posted on May 21, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Acumen | Tagged | Leave a comment

[Update, 8/25/14: The look of our digital repository has changed. The functionality discussed below is still very much there — in a new form. To limit to format now, use the dropdown menu at the search bar.] In the first of … Continue reading →

What do users need?

Posted on August 21, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Research, Usability | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Lately I find myself pursuing clarity on how we should efficiently and effectively provide primary source materials online. Without a better feedback loop, how can we possibly address this issue? The panel I chaired (Exploring the User Experience with Digital … Continue reading →

“Go Local! Using Digital Archives as Alternative Textbooks in First Year Writing”

Posted on April 8, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Industrial, Outreach, Southern History | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Sara Whitver (First Year Experience Librarian), Kate Matheny (Digitization Outreach Coordinator), and Jennie Vaughn (Graduate Student Administrator, First Year Writing Program) will be presenting on this great topic at the Association of College & Research Libraries 2013 annual meeting in … Continue reading →

Free Digital Preservation Webinars!

Posted on March 14, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Digital Preservation, Outreach | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

After a series of very successful ASERL webinars on introductory digital preservation in the spring of 2012, a survey of librarians and archivists indicated that the most important topics for successive webinars centered on metadata selection, extraction, creation and storage … Continue reading →

Advanced Acumen Searching

Posted on January 15, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Acumen, Delivery Methodology, Usability | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Acumen is big. Very big. And it’s getting bigger.  I’m pointing this out because when databases like Acumen get big, they become impossible to search through manually. Generally speaking, one can’t just browse casually through thousands and thousands of folder directories and … Continue reading →

“Go Local” — and work together!

Posted on December 14, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Outreach | Leave a comment

This semester, I’ve been collaborating with a librarian from Gorgas Information Services and an instructor in the English Department to create a composition course built around some of our most interesting digital collections. We’re pretty excited about it! The instructor … Continue reading →

What do researchers need?

Posted on November 16, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Usability | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Since we’re in the business of providing online access to primary source (unpublished!) materials, it only makes sense to wonder how effectively researchers can use our content. However, since most digital library interfaces share many commonalities — search, browse, results … Continue reading →