1. Creating Newspaper-Style Captions and Metadata to Describe Images that Cannot be Digitized due to Copyright Concerns by Eric Willey, Illinois State University
Or:
Buddy, Seriously, Read Your Session Title Out Loud Before Submitting Because That is Way too Wordy

2. and now You're Going to Have to Get Past That With a Joke or Something
Creating Newspaper-Style Captions and Metadata to Describe Images that Cannot be Digitized due to Copyright Concerns by Eric Willey, Illinois State University
Or:
and now You're Going to Have to Get Past That With a Joke or Something

3. Or: and you know you're not very good at that
Creating Newspaper-Style Captions and Metadata to Describe Images that Cannot be Digitized due to Copyright Concerns by Eric Willey, Illinois State University
Or:
and you know you're not very good at that

4. Or: so Save Yourself some Trouble, Huh?
Creating Newspaper-Style Captions and Metadata to Describe Images that Cannot be Digitized due to Copyright Concerns by Eric Willey, Illinois State University
Or:
so Save Yourself some Trouble, Huh?

5. Tell ‘em what you’re gonna tell ‘em.
Created a 43 page guide to 618 illustrations, scrapbook items, and secondary materials in the Lois Lenski Collection
Included about 2913 metadata terms from Thesaurus of Graphic Materials
Two student workers hired through a $2400 University Research Grant, lessons could also apply to volunteers
1 fiscal year (1 June June 2016)
The things I did wrong (unless my tenure committee is listening, in which case: great project, excellent use of funds, smooth sailing in calm seas all the way because I am a genius please let me keep my job)
Written text of talk will be made available (and slides).

6. Sample image from Lois Lenski Collection, Illinois State University, Milner Library.

7. Sample image from Lois Lenski Collection, Illinois State University, Milner Library.

8. Sample image from Lois Lenski Collection, Illinois State University, Milner Library.

9. Eric’s Big Catalog of Inadequacies
1. Your students or volunteers do not understand this the way you do. Provide training, examples (good and bad), more going over stuff and why it’s important to do things a certain way.

10. Eric’s Big Catalog of Inadequacies
1. Your students or volunteers do not understand this the way you do. Provide training, examples (good and bad), more going over stuff and why it’s important to do things a certain way.
2. Plan for attrition, and how losing people will change your workflows.

11. Eric’s Big Catalog of Inadequacies
1. Your students or volunteers do not understand this the way you do. Provide training, examples (good and bad), more going over stuff and why it’s important to do things a certain way.
2. Plan for attrition, and how losing people will change your workflows.
3. Make sure people are working on the same software, same version, or test for compatibility issues.

12. Eric’s Big Catalog of Inadequacies
1. Your students or volunteers do not understand this the way you do. Provide training, examples (good and bad), more going over stuff and why it’s important to do things a certain way.
2. Plan for attrition, and how losing people will change your workflows.
3. Make sure people are working on the exact same software, or test for compatibility issues.
4. Consider software carefully, look for alternatives, train people on it and especially train them on what can go wrong.

13. Eric’s Big Catalog of Inadequacies
1. Your students or volunteers do not understand this the way you do. Provide training, examples (good and bad), more going over stuff and why it’s important to do things a certain way.
2. Plan for attrition, and how losing people will change your workflows.
3. Make sure people are working on the exact same software, or test for compatibility issues.
4. Consider software carefully, look for alternatives, train people on it and especially train them on what can go wrong.
5. Break the project up into chunks your volunteers can manage from beginning to end.

14. Eric’s Decently Sized Catalog of Adequacies
1. Make your data available, see what people do with it. The Guide and csv file can be downloaded without copyright from our IR:

15. Eric’s Decently Sized Catalog of Adequacies
1. Make your data available, see what people do with it. The Guide and csv file can be downloaded without copyright from our IR:
2. Make clear rights statements so people know they can mess with your data.

16. Eric’s Decently Sized Catalog of Adequacies
1. Make your data available, see what people do with it. The Guide and csv file can be downloaded without copyright from our IR:
2. Make clear rights statements so people know they can mess with your data.
3. Work with students and volunteers occasionally so you see the collection through their eyes, and remember how amazing it was the first time someone brought you a folder.

17. Eric’s Decently Sized Catalog of Adequacies
1. Make your data available, see what people do with it. The Guide and csv file can be downloaded without copyright from our IR:
2. Make clear rights statements so people know they can mess with your data.
3. Work with students and volunteers occasionally so you see the collection through their eyes, and remember how amazing it was the first time someone brought you a folder.
4. Read your session title out loud, because… oh, dang it, well, next time…

18. ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
THANK YOU!
ERIC WILLEY
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
SAA 2016, ATLANTA, GEORGIA