The Wonderful Technicolor World

Digital Goodness @ Smithsonian Libraries (which sometimes appears in glorious archival black and white)

Digital Programs Advisory Committee 22 March 02012 | Smithsonian Institution

Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Libraries

Smithsonian Libraries' Mission (Smithsonian Directive 500)

As the largest and most diverse museum library in the world, SIL leads the Smithsonian in taking advantage of the opportunities of the digital society. SIL provides authoritative information and creates innovative services and programs for Smithsonian Institution researchers, scholars and curators, as well as the general public, to further their quest for knowledge. Through paper preservation and digital technologies, SIL ensures broad and enduring access to the Libraries’ collections for all users.

African Art

African American History and Culture

Anthropology

American Art

American History

Asian and Middle Eastern Art

Aviation history and Space Flight

Design and Decorative Arts

Environmental Management and Ecology

History of Science and Technology

Latino History and Culture

Materials Research

Modern and Contemporary Art

Museology

Native American History and Culture

Natural History

Postal History

Tropical Biology

Trade Literature

World’s Fair Ephemera

Where We Are

Washington, DC > Anacostia Museum

& Center for African

> American History &

Culture Library

> Anthropology Library

> Botany & Horticulture

Library

> The Dibner Library

of the History of

Science and

Technology

> Freer Gallery of Art &

Arthur M. Sackler

Gallery Library

> Hirshhorn Museum &

Sculpture Garden Library

> Joseph F. Cullman 3rd

Library of Natural History

> Museum Studies & Reference Library

> National Air and Space Museum Library

> National Museum of American History Library > National Museum of Natural History Library

Washington, DC + > National Postal Museum Library

> National Zoological Park Library

> Smithsonian American Art

Museum/National Portrait

Gallery Library

> Warren M. Robbins Library,

National Museum of African Art

Suitland & Landover, MD > Museum Support Center Library

> National Museum of the

American Indian Library

> PennSIL

Edgewater, MD > Smithsonian Environmental

Research Center Library

New York City > Cooper-Hewitt, National Design

Museum Library

Republic of Panama > Smithsonian Tropical

Research Institute Library

And a friend in Massachusetts ...

August 2011 John G. Wolbach Library and Information Resource Center

Smithsonian Libraries by the numbers

Collections = 1.9 million

50,000+

rare books

10,000+

manuscripts

> 500,000+

trade literature items

SIBIS Smithsonian Institution Bibliographic Information System

Smithsonian Libraries Digital Pre-history Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment, 1996

Smithsonian Libraries Digital Pre-history US Exploring Expedition, 2003

Smithsonian Libraries & Digital Pre-history Biologia Centrali-American, 2004

The Biodiversity Heritage Library, 2005 Smithsonian Libraries

2007-2012/Feb 5,603 Titles 14,599 Items 5,851,496 Pages 400 pages/item 1,044 pages/title

The Biodiversity Heritage Library, 2005 14 member libraries

2007-2012/Feb 54,246 Titles 103,182 Items 38,059,980 Pages 369 pages/item 702 pages/title

Digitization Costs: CY 2011

Direct Staff Contributions 5.3 FTE $408,164 Other Costs (equipment, shipping, paid scanning, etc.) $242,948 Funding Received (internal & grants) $537,607

Scanning Operations: PennSIL

Equipment Phase I BC 100 Staff David Holbert Imaging Specialist Stefaan Hurts Imaging Specialist

Scanning Operations: NMNH

Equipment Internet Archive Scribe machine Staff Daniel Euperat Internet Archive

Scanning Operations: FedScan

Equipment 12 Internet Archive Scribes 1 large van Many book carts Whole lotta shrink wrap

Scanning Operations: Macaw

Select & Dedupe

Check out and Ship

Temp. Backup to

NAS

SIRIS

Workflow DB

Internet Archive

Item level metadata

Initiate workflow

Title level MARC

JP2000s + metadata

Scanning

Packages files for transfer

Creates metadata “Bucket”

Transforms Images, creates

derivatives

Page level metadata

added

.tiffs

Macaw

Check in and QC

Item available in

IA/BHL

Check in Add link

URLs in MARC record

In-house workflow with Macaw

Mark as scanned

Digital Projects: Index Animalium

Digital Projects: Art & Artists Files

Supplemental Projects The key to unlock the

door to the storehouse of

knowledge is the

scientist and the

historian, but the light

illuminating the room

is the library.

Smithsonian Institution Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations US Senate. 89th Congress, 2nd session, HR 14215. 1966

Thanks … Keri Thompson Suzanne Pilsk and the staff of the Smithsonian Libraries