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I was charged by my organization's executive director with preserving the emails that he has been regularly sending to staff members to keep us up to date on everything that has been happening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Born digital records continue to be an area that I need to professionally develop (using some of that … Continue reading Quick-and-Dirty Email Archiving →

I had the good fortune of getting all the various pieces and parts of my home office settled just before the novel coronavirus pandemic began really impacting life in the U.S., so while this situation is horrifying for so very many reasons, I was at least well positioned to continue trying to accomplish my digitization/digital … Continue reading My Setup for Working from Home →

Some staffing changes at my local library mean that the amount of time I have available off the reference desk has shrunk pretty considerably, a change that has made me rethink how exactly I'm able to continue digitizing resources when I am not able sustainably work with the bulk of our digitization equipment. To address … Continue reading 2020 Goals: Genealogical Record Sets →

One of the most common stumbling blocks I've come across when uploading ebooks to the Internet Archive via FTP has been the following XML parsing error: Two commons problems may result in seeing this error upon submitting your GET request to have the item ingested and derived for access in the Internet Archive. Problem One: … Continue reading XML Parsing Errors During FTP Upload to the Internet Archive →

Context: I am a digitization librarian working in the Local History and Genealogy department of a public library. We use CONTENTdm for our public access repository through Ohio Memory (a joint collaboration of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio). I use the CONTENTdm Project Client to upload materials to our collections … Continue reading Fixing Large-Size/Low PPI Images for CONTENTdm Upload →