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Project Director and Principal Investigator
Project Manager
Preservation Librarian
Project Cataloger
Support from Other Library Staff
Graduate Students
The Project Director oversees the digitization project, ensures that it is on schedule, meets quality control requirements, and spends funds cost-effectively. She confers regularly with project staff. She also works with the Editorial Board to prioritize titles for scanning and to identify supporting materials to include in the database. She is responsible for writing reports and preparing publicity for the project.
Curriculum Vitae
Business Address:
Collection Development Department
CB# 3918, Davis Library
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
Education:
UNC-CH, Library Science, M.S.L.S., 1978.
University of Michigan, Comparative Literature, Ph.D., 1975.
University of Michigan, Comparative Literature, M.A., 1966.
Andrews University, French, B.A., 1965.
Current Position:
Humanities Bibliographer, Collection Development Department, Academic
Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 1978-
Fellowships, Awards and Special Honors Received:
Blackwell Award for "Cooperative Collection Development at the
Research Triangle University Libraries: A Model for the Nation." (With
Luke Swindler.) College & Research Libraries 53 (1993), p.
479-496.
CETH Seminar: Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and
Tools, August 1-13, 1994, Princeton, New Jersey.
Grants Received:
"First-Person Narratives of the American South," LC/Ameritech
National Digital Library Competition Grant, for $74,782. August 1, 1997
to January 31, 1999. P. I. (With Natalia Smith)
"A Digitized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920,"
Chancellor's Grant for Instructional Technology, $30,100. January 1,
1997 to June 30, 1997. P. I. (With Natalia Smith)
"Documenting the Contemporary South." A Title II-C
Collection Development Grant from the U. S. Department of Education to
the Triangle Research University Libraries for $286,669 to purchase
materials on the American South, April 1992. Principal writer; Campus P.
I. (With Luke Swindler, David Moltke-Hansen, Marcella Grendler; UNC--CH;
Ginny Gilbert, Duke; Margaret Hunt, NCSU).
"Documenting the Contemporary South." A Title II-C
Collection Development Grant from the U. S. Department of Education to
the Triangle Research University Libraries for $267,170 to purchase
materials on the American South, June 1991. Principal writer, Campus P.
I. (With Luke Swindler, David Moltke-Hansen, Marcella Grendler; UNC--CH;
Ginny Gilbert, Duke; Margaret Hunt, NCSU).
Special Projects:
Documenting the American South. Initiated the Library
project to digitize books about the American South printed between 1600
and 1920. The library project is part of a networked multimedia Southern
Americana Database supported by the
Academic Affairs Library, the Library of Congress and the Ameritech
Corporation, the Office of the Chancellor at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, initially, the Office of Information
Technology at the University and the IBM Corporation.
Selected Publications:
"African American Resources in the Library's General Collections,"
Southern Research Report #6: African Americana in North Carolina and
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Fall 1995), p.
51-58. (With Luke Swindler.)
"Brainstorming About the Serials Crisis." (With Luke Swindler.)
Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues [Online], no. 102 (10 January
1994).
"Cooperative Collection Development at the Research Triangle
University Libraries: A Model for the Nation." (With Luke Swindler.)
College & Research Libraries 53 (1993), p. 479-496.
"ALA, Librarians, Faculty, and Scholarly Organizations:
Broadening the Lines of Communication." College and Research
Libraries News, Vol. 51, no. 5 (May 1990), 396-397.
"Evaluating History Journals at a University Library." Editing
History 6, no.2 (Fall 1989), p. 6-8. (With Luke Swindler.)
"Report on Research Projects Funded by the North Carolina
Science and Technology Committee," 1977.
"A Study of Mallarmé and Grammars," Language and Style, Vol.
VIII, no. 3 (Summer 1975), 163-188.
The Digitization Librarian manages the day-to-day operation of the project and its budget. She hires and trains students to prepare texts, scan them according to current international standards or accepted library practice, proofread materials, encode texts at a basic level, and make them available on the WWW, ensuring quality control at each step. She works with Curators and Bibliographers to identify texts for scanning. She asks members of the editorial board to help prioritize among them. She also does advanced-level encoding according to SGML/TEILite and assigns the TEI header for each text. She also maintains the whole database Documenting the American South and its components.
Curriculum Vitae
Business Address:
CB# 3918, 127 Davis Library
UNC-CH, Chapel Hill 27515-8890
Phone: 919- 962-1095
Fax: 919-962-4450
Email: nsmith@email.unc.edu,
nsmith@metalab.unc.edu
Education:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.S.L.S., May 1995
Princeton University, CETH Seminar: Electronic Texts in the
Humanities: Methods and Tools, Summer 1994
Moscow State University, Masters of Arts, Linguistics (French,
Italian, Portuguese), May 1978
Current Position:
Digitization Librarian, Academic Affairs Library, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 10/96 to present
Develops and maintains a WWW site for the AAL digitization project,
Documenting the
American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America;
works on the project development and its future components; encodes
selected materials in SGML/TEI; provides quality control and consistency
of text-encoding; works with members of the Cataloging Department to
catalog electronic resources and to provide access to them through the
local OPAC and the OCLC; hires, trains, and supervises several graduate
assistants from the School of Information
and Library Science and the School
of Journalism and Mass
Communication; promotes
AAL digitization initiatives; works with librarians, faculty, and members
of the UNC Press to
identify appropriate materials for digitization.
Grants Received:
Chancellor's Academic Enhancement grant, $29,991, for continuing "A Digitized Library
of Southern Literature." P. I. and Project Director.
Library of
Congress/Ameritech Digital Library Competition, $74.782,
First-Person Narratives of the American
South (Project Manager).
Chancellor's Instructional Technology Grant, $30,100, A Digitized Library
of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920 (Project Manager).
Publications:
Natalia Smith. "UNC-CH
Library Digitization Project Documenting the
American South. Clips and Pointers in D-Lib Magazine,
November 1997
Smith, Natalia and Helen Tibbo. "Libraries and the Creation of
Electronic Texts for the Humanities", College & Research
Libraries, 11, 1996: 535-553.
Smith, Natalia. An
On-line Bibliography of Southern Literary Magazines, 1727-1900.
Curriculum Vitae
Business Address:
Collection Development Department
Davis Library CB#3918
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890
Tel: (919)962-1095
Fax: (919)962-4450
Email : ashart@email.unc.edu
Education:
Certificate of Advanced Study in Preservation Management, University
of Pittsburgh, 1994.
MLS, University of Pittsburgh, 1992.
BA, English and General Literature, State University of New York at
Binghamton, 1987.
Employment History:
Preservation Librarian, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1996-.
NEH Project Coordinator, Columbia University, 1995.
Mellon Intern in Preservation Administration, Columbia University,
1994.
Coordinator, Preservation Intensive Institute, University of Pittsburgh, 1993.
Professional Activity:
American Library Association, Preservation and Reformatting Section
(PARS):
Member, ALCTS Legislation Committee, 1997-1998.
Member, PARS Policy and Planning Committee, 1996-1997.
Intern, PARS Policy and Planning Committee, 1994-1995.
Chair, PARS Education and Outreach Discussion Group, 1994-1995.
1995 Program Planning Subcommittee: "Selection for
Preservation in a Digital Universe."
Member, Task Force on Preservation Internships, 1994.
North Carolina Preservation Consortium, Board Member, 1997-2000.
New York State Conservation/Preservation Program:
NYS Education Task Force, 1995.
Reviewer for preservation grant proposals, 1995-.
National Endowment for the Humanities:
Reviewer for preservation grant proposals, 1994-.
The Project cataloger reviews the TEI headers and oversees the creation of a full MARC record for each digitized text through the OCLC system. She also confers with staff about enhancements to access and coordinates the project's cataloging and metadata activities.
Curriculum Vitae
Business Address:
Catalog Department
CB# 3914, Davis Library
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
Tel: (919) 962-0153
Email: cnoel@unc.edu
Education:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Library Science, M.S.L.S., 1974.
Fordham University, English, B.A., 1969.
Current Position:
Cataloger, Catalog Department, Academic Affairs Library, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 1980-
Previous Positions:
Cataloger, Boston University, 1975-1980.
Technical assistant, Automated Book Catalog Project, Dance Collection, New
York Public Library, 1972-1973.
Recent Activities:
Metadata Institute, "Managing Metadata for the Digital Library,"
Washington D.C., May 4-5, 1998.
Library of Congress, Program for Cooperative Cataloging, BIBCO training
program, April 1-2, 1998.
"Knowledge Access Management" Seminar, OCLC Institute, Dublin, Ohio, Nov.
17-19, 1997
Many individuals in the library spent considerable time helping project staff identify materials, write parts of the narrative for the grant proposal, and catalog the digitized titles. The following list includes some of the librarians who helped with this project, in addition to those already listed.
David Moltke-Hansen and Robert Anthony: Wrote narrative that provided the intellectual context for the proposals.
Tim Pyatt: Wrote sections on copyright in terms of manuscripts and bit-mapped imaging; identified first-person narratives in typescript in the Southern Historical Collection.
Eileen McGrath, Harry McKown, Alice Cotten: Helped identify first-person narratives in the North Carolina Collection.
Roberta Engleman and Libby Chenault: Helped search for first-person narratives in the Rare Book Collection.
Margaretta Yarborough: Developed the strategy and cataloged the first records for digitized texts from this library.
Carol Pekar: Suggested ways students might use the cataloging records to identify first-person narratives in Davis.
Pat Mullin: Proofread the grant, along with many others listed above.
Marcella Grendler: Helped organize, write, and revise the grant. Much of its success is due to her efforts.
Larry Alford: Provided funding for the pilot project which gave us the experience we needed to undertake this project.
Joe Hewitt: Approved this project in his capacity as Associate Provost for University Libraries.
We are grateful to all these individuals for their contributions.
Graduate Assistants (GA) from the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication:
GA 1 (20 hours per week) consults with the Preservation Librarian and determines the condition of materials for scanning, collates and cleans them, orders and tracks missing pages on Interlibrary Borrowing, and turns over any materials requiring special handling to the Preservation Librarian. GA 1 also scans materials using OCR scanning software and does OCR editing. He or she scans graphic materials, helps prepare the digitized text for publishing on the WWW, and helps the Digitization Librarian maintain the Website.
GA 2, 3, 4, 5 (20 hours per week each) use OCR scanning software, do OCR editing, proofread digitized text, and do preliminary SGML/TEILite encoding of these texts.