Reed College - ContentDM User Group Meeting

Reed College - ContentDM User Group Meeting
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Site of the ContentDM User Group Meeting, held at Reed College in late July. This two-day meeting featured panel discussions from a variety of librarians and how they were using ContentDM for their digital collections, for everything from electronic theses and dissertation collections to highlighting historical collections and other community resources. For instance, some libraries are using more audio material (using embedded audio players) to play recordings of spoken languages, such as this transcribed Innu legend.

It was great exchanging ideas and seeing what everyone was doing.

More information from this conference can be found on the
ContentDM Wiki and the meeting blog.

Cool digital collections using ContentDM

ContentDM (now owned by OCLC) regularly publishes "featured collections on ContentDM". Some of the recent ones I thought were kind of cool are:

Civil War Letters Collection - University of Washington
http://content.lib.washington.edu/civilwarweb/index.html

E-Archives of Purdue University
http://e-archives.lib.purdue.edu/

Historic Des Moines, Iowa Pictures - Drake University
http://www.lib.drake.edu/heritage/odm/

The entire Collection of Collections is at http://www.contentdm.com/customers/index.html.

I just think it is so cool that all this history, previously unknown to any but the most avid devotees for that particular area of knowledge, are now being made so widely available. The historian and the digital designer in me are both happy!