It’s the IOLUG (Indiana Online Users Group) spring meeting, titled Memory, Heritage, Visions: Digitizing Yesterday for Tomorrow. First speaker, Robin Crumrin, Associate Dean of Collections & Information Access at IUPUI Library, gives background, how State Library kickstarted in 2003, up to licensing OCLC’s CONTENTdm and LSTA digization grants. There’s a framework for partnership & policies & guidelines.

Indiana Memory Project should launch this May, sasy Connie Rendfield, Indiana State Library. Two parts to this project, uisng ISL CONTENTdm license to create collections and collections being harvested into Indiana Memory Portal. Plans for the future: develop collection, educational materials, soft launch, and long-term sustainability.

if you have collection, must tell Indiana Heritage that it should be harvested. Library’s logo can be affixed to harvested collection.

Should collections be harvested into WorldCat? Not so sure. Speakers think that decision should be up to individual institutions contributing to INdiana Memory.

There’s no charge from OCLC to add. OCLC will convert to MARC format.

Next talk is on Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Digital Memory Project. Speaker is Cinda May, Indiana State University Library. Project started to document and preserve history and cultural heritage of West Central Indiana (that’s the Terre Haute area) in digital format made freely accessible. Started in 2004 with 3 goals: establish consortium of cultural organizations & community groups in west central Indiana; create digital collections documenting history and cultural herital of region; develop a digital library that fits seamlessly with Indiana Memory. She’s showing a list of poject participants in 2008. There’s lots of public libraries, also academic, and then there’s the Clabber Girl Museum. I didn’t know there was Clabber Girl Museum. Wabash Valley actually starts in Ohio and Cinda will take materials from anywhere in the region that might be loosely defined as Wabash Valley.

Visions project started with a licence for 12,000 items but soon realized they needed an unlimited license. There’s an MOU among partners.

Vigo County contributed doll collection. Cinda wasn’t thrilled.

Copyright is responsibility of contributing partner. Partners can upload but problems with FTPing 1300 images occurred.

Community History Days used to get members of the community to contribute stuff that’s in their attics, closets, etc. Scan material on the spot, sometimes use digital camera for objects. One had music entertainment and tons of food (Vigo County). But one other one only pulled 5 people (at Clabber Girl). More people are available on Saturday.

Now she’s showing Story of a House, 1873-2004. Full history of the building of the house through to its destruction in 2004. Great for architectural history.

And they’ve got a blog. Tells what the featured subjects are. Now it’s Women’s History Month.

O Miners Aware project. Indian Coal Miners, Their Families, Their Communities. I guess this is from the Coal Museums collections, but she didn’t actually say so. Other special collections. Early Vincennes. Eugene B. Debs corresondence.

Not in competition with Indiana Memory.

Challenges: addressing needs of diverse partners; adequate staffing; equipment replacement/upgrades; quality control across collections; digital preservation issues.