Projects & Mentors
The University of Iowa curriculum in digital libraries interweaves course work with project work, providing students with a full range of learning opportunities. Students may select from a full spectrum of projects led by experienced librarians, faculty, and information technology personnel.
Examples of projects welcoming student participation include those related to digitizing newspapers, digital preservation, recording oral histories of journalists, maintaining and extending public health information services, designing institutional repositories, using web crawlers, and building eGranaries of digital collections for distribution to developing countries.
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ITS - Instructional Services Les Finken Greyson Purcell Steve Tomblin
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Nicole Saylor Paul Soderdahl |
• African American Women Students, 1900-1950 • Experimental Television Collection • Iowa Civil War Diaries Collection • Szathmary Collection of Culinary Arts - Recipe Pamphlets • Traveling Culture: Circuit Chatauqua Iowa Programs Project • Web 2.0 Promotional Strategies for Digital Collections
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Ed Holtum Chris Shaffer Chris White
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• College of Dentistry Historical Images
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Nancy E. Kraft
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• DIGS: Digital Iowa Geological Resources Collection • Iowa Railroad Depots Digital Collection
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Padmini Srinivasan
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• Health Information for Non-literate Populations
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and the Virtual Writing University James Elmborg Jon Winet
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Cliff Missen |
• eGranary for Underserved Populations in America • Information Portal to Cure Club Foot • Multiuser Cataloging of Digital Content
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