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New Collection Addition: Sidney D. Gamble’s Hand-Colored Lantern Slides
I started working on the metadata of Sidney D. Gamble photographs in January 2008 on a spreadsheet with no matching images. The nitrate negatives from the collection had just been digitized and resided...
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Digital collections places I have and have not been
The era in which libraries have digitized their collections and published them on the Internet is less than two decades old. As an observer and participant during this time, I’ve seen some great...
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Vacation, all We Ever Wanted
We try to keep our posts pretty focussed on the important work at hand here at Bitstreams central, but sometimes even we get distracted (speaking of, did you know that you can listen to the Go-Gos for...
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Analog to Digital to Analog: Impact of digital collections on...
We’ve written many posts on this blog that describe (in detail) how we build our digital collections at Duke, how we describe them, and how we make them accessible to researchers. At a Rubenstein...
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Taken near doorways
We’re continually walking through doorways or passing them by, but how often do we linger to witness the life that unfolds nearby? Let the photographs below be your doorway, connecting you with lives...
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Mini-memes, many meanings: Smoking dirt boy and the congee line bros
Children are smoking in two of my favorite images from our digital collections. One of them comes from the eleven days in 1964 that William Gedney spent with the Cornett family in Eastern Kentucky. A...
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Who, Why, and What: the three W’s of the Duke Digital Collections Mini-Survey
My colleague Sean wrote two weeks ago about the efforts a group of us in the library are making towards understanding the scholarly impacts of Duke Digital Collections. In this post, I plan to...
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Digital Dogs
In a recent feature on their blog, our colleagues at NCSU Libraries posted some photographs of dogs from their collections. Being a person generally interested in dogs and old photographs, I became...
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My Family Story through the Duke Digital Collections Program
Hello! This is my first blog as the new Digital Production Service Manager, and I’d like to take this opportunity to take you, the reader, through my journey of discovering the treasures that the Duke...
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2.5 Years in the Life of Digital Collections
Admit it, you have been wondering what your favorite digital collections team has been up to. Well after 2.5 years, the wait is over. So. Many. Digitization. Requests. When I last shared a digital...
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