I'm the Digital Strategies Librarian here at McMaster. I manage all of our digital projects and collections, and the institutional repository for McMaster University Library. The libraries' digital collections are located at: http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca McMaster's institutional repository is located at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca Current digital projects: Peace and War in the 20th Century - a massive digitization project (funded by Library and Archives Canada) that includes nearly 3000 digitized objects, along with over 50 case studies. (http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca) World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection - a collection of correspondences available from these camps: Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dondanen, Dora, Fallersleben, Floßenürg, Groß-Rosen, Gusen, Herzogenbusch, Janowska, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwalk, Kauen, Klooga, Kurtenhof, Lemberg, Lublin, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Niederhagen, Plaszow, Ravenbrück, Riga, Sachsenhausen, Salapils, Sangerhausen, Struthof, Stuttof, Torgau, Vaivara, Vught, Warschau, and Wewelsberg. The McMaster Collection - a mass book digitization project utilizing a Kirtas 2400RA robotic book scanner. Primary library collections being prepared for scanning are, 18th Century Fiction, Russell Library. Rare books from Research Collections that are being considered are: Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo [Galileo’s Dialogue], 1632; Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, or A treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light, 1704; H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, first edition, 1895, autographed; Bernard Freeman Trotter, A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War and of Peace, 1917; D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Privately printed for subscribers only, 1920 [i.e., 1922] autographed.
Presentations
OMG! You Don't Need CONTENTdm!!!, OLITA Digital Odyssey (2009)
A quick talk on the benefits of using Drupal as a digital collection platform.
Digital Commons Institutional Repository (with Barbara McDonald), LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE (2008)
The McMaster "Digital Commons" institutional repository http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/about.html seeks to preserve and share the intellectual work...
Drupal: Content Management and Community for Your Library (with Ilana Kingsley, Harish Nayak, Dave Mitchell, and Debra Riley-Huff), Access 2008 (2008)
A panel presentation about using the open-source content management system Drupal as a back-end for...