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Digital Projects Librarian, Associate Professor

Interested in topics pertaining to: digital libraries, digital curation, digital preservation.

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Interested in topics pertaining to: digital libraries, digital curation, digital preservation.

Present	Digital Projects Librarian, Assistant Professor, Kent State University
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Library and Information Science

Virginia Dressler, MA, MLIS
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
(330) 672-1465

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Re-platforming digital collections for enhanced access & search functionality

ASIST Annual Conference (2014)

Virginia A Dressler

Currently, Kent State University Library is preparing to redesign its online exhibits and digital collections onto a new content management ...

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Gearing Up for Fedora 4

Hydra Connect (2014)

Virginia A Dressler and Joe Corall

At Kent State University Libraries, we are gearing up for a migration to Fedora 4 with our existing digital collections. ...

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Digitizing Modern Archival Collections, Or How We Addressed Copyright in ...

Best Practices Exchange 2019 (2019)

Virginia A Dressler and Cindy Kristof

In order to aid digitization of the Kent State University May 4th Collection in preparation for the 50th anniversary, University ...

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The Right to Be Forgotten and Implications on Digital Collections ...

College & Research Libraries journal (2018)

Virginia A Dressler and Cindy Kristof

In the spring of 2017, digital librarians and digital collection managers at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions were ...

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Privacy concerns & ethical decision-making in digital collections

2018 Digital Library Federation Forum (2018)

Virginia A Dressler

`This presentation will focus on the role of the practitioner and ethical considerations surrounding notions of privacy in digital collections, ...

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Digital liaisons virtual uncommons: Connecting information and people in order ...

Association for Information Science & Technology (2017)

Virginia A Dressler, Alyson Gamble, Ekatarina Grguric, Christopher Cunningham, et al.

Digital librarianship is a rich space in which new practitioners often find their feet on the job, picking up needed ...

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Adapting digital collection interface for special collections and archives collections ...

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2017)

Virginia A Dressler

This paper will address a recent project at Kent State University to adapt the interface of Special Collections and Archives ...

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The Right to be Forgotten in digital collections: A survey ...

Digital Library Federation Forum 2017 (2017)

Virginia A Dressler and Cindy Kristof

Presentation at DLF forum 2017Digital librarians and digital collection managers at ARL institutions were surveyed in the Spring of 2017 ...

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Extending Omeka for Special Collections and Archival Content

Digital Library Federation Forum 2017 (2017)

Virginia A Dressler and Haley Antell

After being awarded a grant to digitize a large number of documents from its archival collections, the Kent State University ...

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Extending Omeka for a Large-Scale Digital Project

Code4Lib (2017)

Virginia A Dressler, Cara Gilgenbach, Haley Antell and Joe Corall

In September 2016, the department of Special Collections and Archives, Kent State University Libraries, received a Digital Dissemination grant from ...

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Adapting Omeka for Special Collections and Archival Content

Cleveland Archival Roundtable (2017)

Virginia A Dressler

An overview of how Omeka is currently used at Kent State for digital collections, which will include a summary of ...

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Building student media publication content in Digital Commons: Advice from ...

Digital Commons Northern Ohio Users Group meeting (2016)

Virginia A Dressler

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Lending a hand to local historical societies: How academic libraries ...

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (2016)

Virginia A Dressler

In the spring of 2015, librarians from KentState University (KSU) reached out to thelocal Historical Society to collaborate on aproject ...

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Investigating and implementing an extensible, adaptable game plan for digital ...

The Electronic Library (2016)

Virginia A Dressler

The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of assessing the needs of a digital repository. The study’s ...

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Digitally Archiving History: A Game Plan for Large, Unruly Archival ...

Archiving 2016 conference proceedings (2016)

Virginia A Dressler

In this paper, an outline of workflows currently in use for thedigitization of a large archival collection at Kent State ...

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Omeka at Kent State University

Ohio Library Council Technical Services Retreat (2016)

Virginia A Dressler

This presentation will highlight the selection, migration, and customization processes used with the open source tool to promote unique digital ...

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Applying concepts of Linked Data to local digital collections to ...

DCMI (2014)

Virginia A Dressler

Plans are currently underway at the Kent State University Library to migrate digital objects onto a different content management system ...

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Enhancing oral history through linked data

Ohio IR Day (2014)

Virginia A Dressler

Presentation given at Ohio IR day 2014, State Library of Ohio, Oct. 24, 2014

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Temporality, Impermanence and the museum The ethics of conservation and ...

(2003)

Virginia A Dressler

Using some of the concepts from Heidegger's 'The origin of a work of art'as a foundation, I will argue that ...

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Balancing Privacy and Access in Personal Digital Archives

Personal Digital Archiving (2019)

Virginia A Dressler

The session will address privacy concerns to consider within personal digital archives, particularly when access to information from the item ...

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Digitizing Modern Archival Collections, Or How We Addressed Copyright in ...

Best Practices Exchange 2019 (2019)

Virginia A Dressler and Cindy Kristof

In order to aid digitization of the Kent State University May 4th Collection in preparation for the 50th anniversary, University ...

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Kent State University’s Journey Toward Accessible ETDs Through Enterprise ...

USETDA annual conference (2022)

Virginia A Dressler

Presented with Cindy Kristof and Alison Haynes

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Beyond the Grant: Cultivating Sustainable Next Steps

Society of Ohio Archivists Annual Meeting (2022)

Virginia A Dressler and Michael Hawkins

This panel will highlight ongoing work at Bowling Green State University, Kent State University, and the Lakeside Heritage Society to ...

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Vendor Digitization Workflows: Outsourcing Digital Capture of Periodicals, Maps and ...

OhioDIG January meeting (2022)

Virginia A Dressler

We will present on our experience and briefly discuss workflows for three vendor digitization projects: an AV project to digitize ...

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Pivoting for Productivity: Adapting Workflows During a Pandemic and Going ...

Society of Ohio archivists, Annual Meeting, 2021 (2021)

Virginia A Dressler

Most organizations had to establish a new way to work during the COVID-19 pandemic and Kent State University and Columbus ...

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RDF migration (2)

copyright (1)

Digital Collections (13)

Linked Data (2)

preservation (1)

privacy (2)

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