Digitizing Your Collection: Public Library Success Stories

Many libraries across the country have found ways to create wonderful digital collections. Learn how they have overcome budget and staffing issues to put their content online.

Susanne Caro is the government document librarian at the University of Montana,
Missoula. She has presented at library conferences regarding how to access digitized
educational resources. Previously she was the state document librarian and coordinator
at the New Mexico State Library where she planned and implemented the creation of a
digital collection of El Palacio magazine, the oldest museum publication in the country,
dating back to 1913.


Sam Meister is currently the preservation communities manager at the Educopia
Institute. He was previously the digital archivist and assistant professor in the Maureen
and Mike Mansfield Library at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is also currently
an instructor in the Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist Certificate
Program and an instructor in the Library of Congress s Digital Preservation Outreach and
Education Program.


Tammy Ravas is associate professor and visual and performing arts librarian at the
University of Montana, Missoula. In 2010 she received her Level One certification in
Copyright Management and Leadership from the (now defunct) Center for Intellectual
Property at the University of Maryland. She has presented at library conferences and other
workshops regarding copyright and higher education. Her current research interests are
educating undergraduates in copyright issues.


Wendy Walker worked for four years as the digital collections and metadata services librarian
at the Henderson District Public Libraries and is now the digital initiatives librarian at
the University of Montana.