Digital Library and Archives
Special Collections

Digital Library and Archives
 Works with the university community to establish new resources and services and to preserve and provide access to unique (historical) resources.
 Illustrated at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu

DLA staff
 4 librarians
– Jan Carlton, reference librarian
– Tamara Kennelly, university archivist
– Gail McMillan, director
– Gerri Schaad, manuscripts curator
 2 staff
– Tony Atkins, programmer
– Joyce Nester, library assistant
– Eric Ackermann, lib. asst.--ed. leave

Electronic Journals http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals or faculty at Virginia Tech and elsewhere including MIT Press
 20 active titles
– Technology Education (6), Design
Communication, Antiquities, Adolescent
Literature (2), Hospitality Research; MIT: computer science, neurology, engineering
 3 titles on the way
– Pesticide Safety; Science, Technology and
Human Values; Computer Science (OAS)
 6 dead titles

Electronic Reserve http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ereserve
 Online class materials
– Reserve Desk 24/7
– ___# classes
– ___# instructors

Electronic Theses/Dissertations http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses
 2200 VT ETDs
– Required since Jan. 1, 1997
– Library-based service
• Students submit directly to library server
• Programming, including Grad School needs
• Users access
• Archiving
 Assisting (60) universities worldwide to establish similar ETD procedures

VT ImageBase http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/imagebase
 1996/97: Art History course slides
 1997/98-1998/99: VIVA support to digitize unique, historical, regional materials
– N&W photographic archives
– As requested by users
 1999/2000
– Civil War (Wallace Foundation)
– As requested by users
– Arts Inventory?

Special Collections http://spec.lib.vt.edu
 Rare Books
 Manuscript Collections
 University Archives
 Available to the public through the
Reading Room: Monday-Friday, 10 am-
4:30 pm

Rare Books at Virginia Tech
 Our definition
 Policies

Manuscript Collections
 Define
 describe

University Archives
 Define
 describe

DLA in the ACITC
 Staff
– 3 librarians, programmer
 Servers
 Students
– Digital projects: ejournals, scanning historical materials for preservation and access