Digital Innovations

[edit] Librarians for the Digital Age

IMLS Librarians for the 21st Century Program

PROJECT WEB PAGE

Emory University Libraries, in collaboration with the University of North Texas School of Library and Information Science and the Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, has been awarded $778,409 by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to increase the number and diversity of students enrolled in ALA-accredited graduate library programs in upper Georgia and to prepare these students for an array of 21st Century library careers with an emphasis on digital knowledge management.

This program will be inaugurated on the 20th anniversary of the closure of the Emory Library School, and will provide a new opportunity for Emory to facilitate the creation of new librarians in the North Georgia region. The project will take place over a period of 36 months starting in September 2007.

The full name of the project is: Recruiting and Educating Librarians for the Digital Age: Diversifying Librarianship in the South. READ MORE...

[edit] Recent Articles

The following are some recent articles that have appeared.

• MetaArchive Cooperative “The next generation will have little information about the early digital years unless we act now,” said Dr. Martin Halbert...
• Voyages Project The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database project is an effort to provide the first solid and continually updated database on the five centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade...

[edit] Current Projects List

Emory University has undertaken a wide range of digital projects. Click here for a list of all available articles on current and previous digital initiatives.

Articles on highlighted projects currently underway:

• Expanded Transatlantic Slave Trade Database Online - Voyages
• The MetaArchive Cooperative
• Cyberinfrastructure for Scholars - SouthComb Project
• Emory Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project
• Southern Spaces
• Amazon/Kirtas Mass Digital Publications

[edit] Notes on Organization

The Digital Innovations strategic goal area of the Emory University Libraries is a comprehensive group of teams and projects. The following are the primary structural groups of Digital Innovations (coming soon):

• Digital Programs Team
• Systems Administration and Development Team
• Institute for Digital Scholarship
• Relationships to other Emory library departments