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Digital Special Collections featuring : Calisphere

Learn about digital special collections and how Calisphere provides access to them. Discover the wide range of materials, from images to texts and datasets, and explore the targeted audiences and strategies for using Calisphere. Hear what teachers and undergraduates are saying about Calisphere and its impact on their studies. Find out what's new in Calisphere and how to start your search.

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Digital Special Collections featuring : Calisphere

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  1. Digital Special Collectionsfeaturing: Calisphere Users Council Annual Meeting May 11, 2007

  2. Overview • What are digital special collections? • Where do they come from? • How does CDL provide access to them? • Who has access? Who are we targeting? • What else does DSC do? • The buzz on Calisphere: who’s using it and what are they saying • Strategies for using Calisphere

  3. What are digital special collections? Images photos, drawings, paintings, murals, posters Texts letters, oral histories, reports, scrapbooks Datasets statistical data

  4. What are digital special collections? And coming soon…QTVR (so you can see what’s on the other side of this statue)

  5. Where do the collections come from? • UC Campuses (archives, libraries, museums, oral history programs) • Other educational institutions (private and public universities/colleges, research institutes) • Libraries • Historical societies and centers • Museums • From YOUR institutions! ….in California

  6. Who has access? Who are we targeting? Everyone has access! • K-12 • UC faculty, students, staff • General public That said, we design to meet the needs of specific target audiences.

  7. How does CDL provide access? Websites • Online Archive of California (OAC) http://www.oac.cdlib.org • Counting California http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org • Calisphere http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu

  8. What’s the difference between OAC and Calisphere? • OAC is where you go for finding aids • Calisphere is where you go for primary sources (the actual digitized objects)

  9. Future Plans for OAC • Bring OAC’s rich contextual and biographical info into Calisphere • OAC redesign in 2008 “a face lift for our grand dame”

  10. What else does DSC do? • Collection development • Provide statistics to our content contributors on usage of their materials • Development • Zooming • Add new format types, e.g., QTVR • Image Service • Coming soon, the UC Shared Image Collection

  11. The buzz on Calisphere… who’s using it and what are they saying • Targetaudience: K-12 teachers and curriculum developers (also grad students and general public)

  12. What are teachers saying? • “It sparked ideas for ways to connect the long past with the more recent past with our actual area that we live in” • “[Calisphere images] also all had at least some information about the images.”

  13. How are teachers using it? “I did not feel that my students really understood the impactinternment had on Japanese Americans, so I printed out copies of fifteen different images and information about the images [so] every group of three students could have a set. The groups studied the images and selected the eight they felt best portrayed the impact, and put them in some order. Each group presented their selections and reasons for them to the class. Then wrote an essay about the impact, referring to at least three images.”

  14. The buzz on Calisphere… who’s using it and what are they saying • Newaudience: Popular with undergraduates!

  15. Why is it popular with undergraduates? • Same subjects covered in K-12 are studied in higher education in more depth • Students come from different cultures and may not be familiar with American (or California) History • Easy to find primary sources quickly for that paper due tomorrow • By topic • By time period (timelines are useful for big events)

  16. What subjects are popular? • American History undergraduate survey class (750 students) • Beats • Hippies • San Francisco • Civil rights • Race, Ethnicity and the law • Labor movements • Immigrants/Migration (Dorothea Lange) • WWII • Science and Technology (post WWII)…dams, buildings, highways • Japanese American Internment • Vietnam War • Sex, drugs, and rock and roll (sorry, nothing to see here!)

  17. Relevant for other disciplines • American Studies • Anthropology • Education • Ethnic Studies • Gender Studies • Humanities & Art • Journalism • Law • Literature • Psychology • Natural Resources • Public Policy • Sociology

  18. Where to start in Calisphere?

  19. Themed Collections or Search?

  20. Themed Collections or Search?

  21. Themed Collections or Search?

  22. Themed Collections or Search?

  23. Themed Collections or Search?

  24. Questions? lena.zentall@ucop.edu

  25. Buzz: What’s New in Calisphere? Before…

  26. JARDA…now

  27. JARDA: sample page

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