2013 LAUNC-CH Conference - True Collaborations: Creating New Structures Services and Breakthroughs
Morning Sessions - 10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
Windflower Room
Providing Access to Geospatial Data from the OPAC
UNC Chapel Hill Librarians used vendor-supplied metadata to create over 1800 MARC records for geospatial data, used for mapping in GIS software. This successful multi-departmental collaboration involved staff from technical and public services. Librarians utilized a modified FGDC>MARC XSLT stylesheet in MarcEdit software to batch convert metadata into MARC records. Completion of this project has multiple positive outcomes including progress towards retiring a parallel (silo) system, and the ability to share records through OCLC. As these datasets are held by many research libraries, we anticipate that the records will be well-received by other GIS Librarians. Most importantly, patrons now have remote access to these data, searchable from the library catalog.
Amanda Henley, Wanda Gunther & Margaretta Yarborough
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Redbud Room
Preserving and Delivering the Voices of the South: The Southern Oral History Program Interviews at the Southern Historical Collection
The Southern Historical Collection is the repository for oral histories conducted by the Center for the Study of the American South's Southern Oral History Program. In this collection of 5000 and growing interviews,there are famous interviewees including Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Bill Friday but there are also interviews with mill workers, activists, Latino migrants, and others, conducted to preserve the voices of the South. Preserving and delivering these interviews to researchers requires a webof collaborations among oral historians, archivists, library systems and digitization staff, and digital humanities scholars. This session will explore the network of collaborations that has resulted in one of the richest oral history resources in the country.
Jackie Dean, Jaycie Vos & Seth Koch
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill