Creating A Digital LibraryA Cost Effective Approach….

Debra A. Murphy, M.A., M.L.I.S., M.Ed.Essex Ag-Tech High School

Digital curation:

selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation is generally referred to the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and scholars. Enterprises are starting to utilize digital curation to improve the quality of information and data within their operational and strategic processes.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

If you have access to the statewide databases you

already have a digital library….

http://mblc.state.ma.us/grants/licenses/index.php

List-servesMailing ListsSubscriptions

PeriodicalsSocial NetworkingBlogsTwitter

http://www.diigo.com/

http://edudemic.com/

https://scout.wisc.edu/index.php

https://amser.org/index.php?P=AMSER--Bulletins

Print Resources

http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/2010/06/01/web-site-of-the-month/

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/SLJ/Technology/WebSites/index.csp

Social Networking

http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/

http://technorati.com/

http://www.stumbleupon.com/home

A Few Video sites

…And We haven’t even touched upon digital books

First of all ….Free Books

Mostly Classics

First of all ….Free Books

• The Literature Page• Classic Literature in the Public Do

main• Luminarium• Full Books.com• Planet PDF• One Hundred Free Online Books Ev

eryone Should Read (Project Gutenberg)

Building your own digital library…

ORGANIZING

Library Webpage

Email

Free Tools

• Live Binders• Diigo

Free Tools

Free Tools

Snack Tools

http://simplebooklet.com/publish.php#wpKey=eyhg5NZCu9tqg3PfwCjDOJ

Fee Based

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