Tag Archives: delivery system

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 →

Acumen 3.0 is here!

Posted on October 18, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Acumen, Delivery Methodology | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Recently, we unveiled the newest version of our search tool, Acumen 3.0! Its new indexer (among other improvements) helps put more data at your fingertips faster. See more info on the results page The easiest way to get you more … Continue reading →

Low-cost digitization of manuscript materials

Posted on July 12, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Employment | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Just published! DeRidder, Jody L.; Presnell, Amanda Axley; and Walker, Kevin W. “Leveraging Encoded Archival Descriptions for Access to Digital Content: A Cost and Usability Analysis,” in American Archivist (Spring/Summer 2012), Vol. 75, Iss. 1. Back in 2010, we were … Continue reading →

Acumen FINALLY available open source!!

Posted on May 23, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Software | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The long-awaited day has finally arrived.  After many trials and tribulations, we have at long last released Acumen Digital Library Software open source!!! This software is light-weight, easy to install (intended for Linux or OSX), easy to use, and it … Continue reading →

But… what if I have lots of Fred Jones letters?

Posted on May 20, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Software | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Or… what if I have Fred Jones Letters in different collections? Or… what if I have Fred Jones photographs, letters, audio tapes and more? The way we deal with this is to identify the item within a collection by an … Continue reading →

How does this Acumen thing work?

Posted on May 19, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Software | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Acumen is our digital library delivery software… which is in the process of going live as open source.  Tonio Loewald is the developer, and we published an article about Acumen in Code4Lib last year, which will contain more detail than … Continue reading →