Digital Projects Librarian Digital Projects Librarian Curators (Digital Collections Team & EAD Task Force) Curators (Digital Collections Team & EAD Task Force) Faculty Supervisors Part Time Staff Systems Support Other Grants/Project Managers

Supervisors Keeping them informed Staying informed Expressing needs/concerns Systems Support Expressing needs Troubleshooting Speaking technical Curators/Librarians Participating at different levels Speaking librarian/archivist/standards Faculty Following curriculum Benefitting students Speaking professor Part-time/Digital Assistants Training Professionalizing Other Grants/Project Managers Managing/training/organizing Putting in my 2 cents

Henry William Ravenel ( ) 13 journals Every handwritten journal has a corresponding typed transcription to be OCR’d, corrected, and loaded along with journal pages Journals mention plants, which will connect virtually to specimens from the SC Herbarium that were collected by Ravenel (6,200 botanical specimens) Expertise of SCL curators, SC’s A.C. Moore Herbarium, CDH programmers, digital librarians came together to write this grant and will come together to complete the project

Literary Annuals (1820s-60s) Challenges Equipment Staff turnover on long project More web content than customary Solutions Scanner provided Detailed documentation on wiki Put staff on the project who already possess or adapt web skills 3 rd phase and 3 rd semester of using materials for class 7,000 + pages, 19 volumes Each title has a corresponding student introduction, reviewed by the professor, and placed on a web page Expertise of both English professor and Rare Books curator

Challenges Maintaining a balanced project list Keeping curators informed about what CONTENTdm can do Staying in contact with the curators and faculty during projects

Part-time Digital Assistants Librarians/historians/archivi sts in training 50+ trained (turnover) Variety of knowledge backgrounds Variety of funding sources …we make it work with… Group introduction training Wiki Appreciating that we are all in the same place The longer you stay/learn, the more autonomy results Patience and hard work