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Presentations from CONTENTdm sessions at ALA 2006 annual conference in New Orleans

CONTENTdm sessions at the ALA Annual Conference featured current users describing their experiences using CONTENTdm.

Ball State University’s Digital Media Repository: an asset for teaching, learning and research

Jim Bradley articulated a goal of providing a global access point to international digital content. Far-ranging digital collections include showcases for student and faculty work, a virtual art gallery, hundreds of videos including a WWII film collection, academic journals, and many other collections. An interesting entrepreneurial project is their costume collection that provides varied views of the items and ultimately facilitates rental of the garments for theater productions.

University of Nevada at Reno—carpe CONTENTdm: congruous coaxing and customization

Glee Willis’ presentation discussed how UNR has applied innovative approaches and a collaborative framework to address their goals. These include: providing guided tours of collections, building aesthetically pleasing collection experiences, providing geospatial access (not previously available), facilitating global access to uniquely-held resources while restricting access to teaching collections, and building comprehensive databases for entire image collections (including use of VRA template).

Occidental College Library—Japanese American Relocation Collection

John de la Fontaine presented the College’s Japanese American Relocation Collection that consists of letters, articles, pamphlets, newspapers, and other publications from 1941–1946 related to the forced internment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. A grant has enabled them to analyze, preserve, digitize, and make accessible to researchers, scholars and the public a portion of this archive in which there were some fragile and deteriorating documents.