Our Rich Resource to Share: National Libraries. S Ames & J Moran.
Channel: AI4LAM
Date: 2022-07-16

00:00 Intro - hosts Rowan Payne & Alexis Tindall 
00:30 Dr Sarah Ames
00:37 Jessica Moran

Our Rich Resource to Share: National Libraries on their digital curation work, making collections computationally accessible.

The speakers and hosts in this webinar explores the issues around digital curation in libraries and other collections, with two National Libraries who are leaders in their fields.

The National Library of Scotland has forged a bold path in making library collections computationally accessible. This includes mass digitisation, non-print legal deposit and web archiving, developing a Digital Scholarship Service and delivering the Data Foundry.

In this webinar we’ll share a pre-recorded session with Dr Sarah Ames, Digital Scholarship Librarian, discussing their progress down this path, and sharing the Digital Scholarship Services’ experiences of collaboration with external audiences who can carry out projects with the collections.

Jessica Moran, Associate Chief Librarian, Research Collections, Alexander Turnbull Library at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, National Library of New Zealand will discuss their leadership in this area for the Aotearoa New Zealand GLAM community, including their cutting edge work in managing digital collections over years and making them accessible and useful, as well as their efforts in creating a Aotearoa New Zealand digital curation community of practice.

These two institutions are thriving as they face challenges common to all GLAMR* organisations, join us to hear how they’re cutting a path for the rest of us to follow, and partnering with people outside their organisation to make use of these collections.

Speakers

Jessica Moran (she/her) is Associate Chief Librarian, Research Collections at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand. In almost ten years at the Alexander Turnbull Library, she has worked first as a digital archivist, and then head of Digital Collections Services, before becoming Associate Chief Librarian in 2021. She has worked to help other libraries and archives get started with managing born digital collections and ensuring that our diverse digital heritage is preserved. Prior to moving to New Zealand in 2012, she worked in university, special, and government libraries and archives in California, including most recently the California State Archives.

Dr Sarah Ames is Digital Scholarship Librarian at the National Library of Scotland, with responsibility for the Library’s Digital Scholarship Service and Data Foundry. She is a member of the LIBER DH Working Group core group, where she co-chairs the Research Collaborations group, RLUK’s Digital Shift Working Group, RLUK Digital Scholarship Network, and the Alan Turing Institute Humanities and Data Science group. She has worked in an LIS environment for nearly a decade, with experience of taking services from early-stage programmes to business-as-usual activity. Sarah also has a research background, with a PhD in English Literature and postgraduate qualifications in Library and Information Science and in Data Science. Recent publications include articles in Big Data and Society, LIBER Quarterly, and IFLA Journal.

*GLAMR - galleries, libraries, archives, museums, records 

Image credits: 
LHS segment. Scotia antiqua : qualis priscis temporibus, Romanis praesertim, cognita fuit quam in lucem eruere conabatur / R. Gordonius. [Amsterdam : Blaeu, 1654]. National Library of Scotland.
RHS segment. Map of New Zealand : with mountain features in pictorial relief / drawn by W. Deverell. [Wellington, N.Z.] : N.Z. Lands and Survey, [1906]. National Library of New Zealand.