http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections Notes from the Digital Collections Team at Duke Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:32:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How do we make Duke Digital Collections happen?  Well, obviously, our secret is glamour, which comes as no surprise to those of you who know us.  But as with Miss Denney in this advertisement from our Ad*Access collection, there's a bit more to it than that, and it takes a ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/11/03/secrets-of-duke-digital-collections-revealed/ Before designing new item pages for our Digital Collections site redesign, we looked around the web to find exemplary sites to inspire us as we apply what we have learned while assessing our current item pages. We looked for sites where items are presented with both clarity and context. We ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/10/23/item-pages-inspiring-sites/ I'm excited to announce that we've launched 3,000 new commercials in the AdViews digital collection on iTunes U. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews/ This includes over 50 new products and brands, such as the American Association of Railroads, Burma Shave, Bounce, Eastern Airlines, Folgers, Glade, Pepto-Bismol, Prell, Sanka, and Zest. We've also added many new commercials ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/10/21/adviews-3000-new/ We have been assessing our web interface to Digital Collections for some time using a healthy variety of evaluation techniques and soliciting ideas for a new & improved interface. Let's first take a look at our item pages, with an annotated review of our current site: <a href="https://seanaery.notableapp.com/website-feedback/10444/Item-Page-Existing-Interface" mce_href="https://seanaery.notableapp.com/website-feedback/10444/Item-Page-Existing-Interface">View this ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/10/19/item-pages-what-weve-learned/ http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/10/12/dukemobile-and-digital-collections-at-the-duke-techexpo-october-12/ Note: This is a guest post by Kelly Wooten, Research Services and Collection Development Librarian of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in the Duke University Libraries. Kelly is curator of the Bingham Center Zine Collections. The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture has a collection ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/09/21/why-were-not-digitizing-zines/ This fall, we're redesigning the web interface to our Digital Collections.  And we want your help. We unveiled our current interface back in January 2008, starting with a modest six collections, mostly of photographs and other images.  The system/website we built was pretty sufficient for that group of content.  It did ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/09/08/redesigning-duke-digital-collections/ Note: This is a guest post by Tom Moore, Head of the Music Library and Music Media Center at Duke. Tom is also the editor of the Music Library blog, Biddle Beat. The award-winning Historic American Sheet Music Project of the Duke Libraries Digital Collections provides access to images of more ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/08/10/the-classical-string-quartet/ The Duke Digital Collections team is excited to announce our newest project: AdViews, a digital archive of vintage television commercials. Our first batch of commercials went live in iTunes U last night (July 20, 2009), and we'll continue to add thousands of historic commercials to the collection through the rest ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/07/21/adviews-dont-touch-that-dial/ I’ve been working in academic libraries for fourteen years now, and I still haven’t been able to convince my grandmother that working for a university doesn’t mean you get the summers off.  We certainly haven’t been taking the summer off in the Digital Collections Program here at the Duke University ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/07/15/you-know-what-we-did-this-summer/