1. ASERL IT/Digital Initiative Interest Group Webinar February 9, 2010 Stephen Cunetto Administrator of Systems Mississippi State University Libraries scunetto@library.msstate.edu IT and Digital Priorities Mississippi State University Libraries

2. Digitization Background: Started with Sirsi’s Hyperion product for small pilot projects (2000) U.S. Small Business Administration Grant 2006-2007 Purchased ContentDM Purchased Server Hired 8 full time staff members including a Digital Projects Coordinator and web designer Post U.S. Small Business Administrator Retained Digital Projects Coordinator Web designer Students assistants Currently running version ContentDM 4.3. Testing ContentDM 5 in test environment. (Implementation April)

3. Digitization Priorities: Charles Templeton Collection Contains: approx 6,500 pieces of sheet music (22,000 in physical collection) 107 musical instruments 1,112 cylinders (metadata only) Charles Templeton Ragtime/Jazz Festival http://digital.library.msstate.edu/collections/sheetmusic/

4. Digitization Priorities: CHARM Contains: Approx 14,700 items Focuses on history of ag / rural Mississippi Pulls from Manuscripts, University Archives and Mississippiana Currently represents about 40 collections Highlights Farm Family of the Week TV series (transcripts, images) Contains most format diversity http://digital.library.msstate.edu/collections/charm/

5. Digitization Priorities: Congressional & Political Research Center Ongoing. Current focus is on primary sources from the John C. Stennis, David R. Bowen, and G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery Collections relating to civil rights, agriculture, and the Montgomery G. I. Bill. Contains: 5,919 items (primarily pictures, correspondence) 256 audio files (Montgomery radio shows) http://digital.library.msstate.edu/collections/cprc/

6. Digitization Priorities: Ulysses S. Grant Collection Received collection in 2008 Processing collection Contains: (not yet released) Outsourced digitization of “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant” (31 bound multi-volume set of Grant's personal and official papers spanning the Prewar, Civil War and Reconstruction, Presidential, and Post- Presidential periods) Sheet music Political cartoons Ulysses S. Grant Association Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Collection http://library.msstate.edu/USGrant/

7. Digitization Priorities: Library Events: Add current photos taken at all events. Also adding to Flickr Partnerships: College of Forest Resource Tool Collection 70 antique tools (and growing) CFR takes pictures, describes items Library houses in CDM, develops front-end Myrna Colley-Lee Costume Collection (not yet released) Working costume collection Catalog unique pieces, add to CDM Develop a commerce site for rental

8. IT Initiative / Priorities VMWare Implementation VuFind Implementation: OPAC overlay to existing SirsiDynix system (complete by April 1, 2010) Microsoft Sharepoint: (complete by May 1, 2010) Timeclock Facebook Application Optimized website for mobile devices

9. Stephen Cunetto Administrator of Systems Mississippi State University Libraries scunetto@library.msstate.edu Q & A For more information on MSU Library IT projects visit http://blogs.library.msstate.edu/webservices/