Building Digital Repositories with Limited Resources
Whether you are just starting to create a digital repository or your institution already has a fully developed program, Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources provides strategies for building and maintaining a high-use, cohesive, and fiscally responsible repository with collections that showcase your institution. Author Abby Clobridge explains how to strategically select projects tied to your institution’s goals, create processes and workflows designed to support a fully functioning program, and creatively utilize existing resources. She discusses the benefits of taking a holistic approach to creating a digital repository program rather than focusing only on individual collections. The book includes ready-to-use templates, worksheets, workshop exercises, and assessment tools, along with practical and easily adoptable case studies. It will be useful guidebook to building and sustaining digital repository programs.
Published by Chandos Publishing (August 31, 2010).
Conference Proceeding: Colloque de Lille
Published conference proceeding.
“Comment l’internaute devient historien: une pedagogie hybride pour croiser l’analyse documentaire et la creation de ressources numerique au sein d’un course d’histoire.” From Internet User to Historian: A Hybrid Pedagogy to Blend Object Analysis and Digitization in the Heart of a History Course.
Co-author: David Del Testa, Bucknell University. In Les Actes du Colloque de Lille (Octobre 2008). Lyon: Presses de l’ENNSIB, 2010.
Book Chapter
The World War II Poster Project: Building a Digital Library through Information Literacy Partnerships
Chapter from Using Technology to Teach Information Literacy, ed. by Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi Jacobson. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2008.
Co-author: David Del Testa (Bucknell University).
Summary: This chapter explores two ways in which technology was used to teach and assess undergraduate students’ information literacy skills in a single course: by building a digital collection of images and through the use of personal response systems to assess students’ ability to find, evaluate, and ethically use information.
Book Review
Clobridge, Abby. Review of Digital Libraries: Integrating Content and Systems, by Mark Dahl, Kyle Banerjee, and Michael Spalti. Journal of Web Librarianship (Volume 1, Number 4 – Winter 2007).
Other Publications
- Clobridge, Abby Krystel. “Constructing Collections: The Humanities Digital Image Database and AMICA.” In ISR@bucknell (September 2005).
- Clobridge, Abby Krystel. “Samek Art…Online.” In ISR@bucknell (April 2005).
- Clobridge, Abby Krystel. “Building Digital Image Collections.” In ISR@bucknell (August 2004).
- Clobridge, Abby Krystel. “Announcing the Eighteenth Century Collections Online.” In ISR@bucknell (April 2004).
- Krystel, Abby (as a contributing writer). FBI Clears College Woman of Any Involvement [in the Sept. 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks]. CNN.com (October 13, 2001).
- Krystel, Abby. CNN’s Weekly Upcoming Events Calendar. June 2000 – September 2001.