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OCLC WELCOMES THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBER LIBRARIES:

King Khalid University
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      <h2>LOUIS libraries using CONTENTdm<br>
        to digitize collections in Louisiana<br>
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      <p>LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network is using CONTENTdmTM Digital Collection 
        Management Software to digitize special collections and make them more 
        visible and accessible online via the <a href="http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/">LOUISiana 
        Digital Library Web</a> site.</p>
      <p>CONTENTdm helps libraries organize a variety of digital materials, including 
        photographs, maps and historic documents as well as imagery of three-dimensional 
        objects and artifacts, so that users can retrieve and view them over the 
        World Wide Web.</p>
      <p>LOUIS is a consortium of 40 Louisiana colleges, universities, and special 
        libraries that provides library automation and licenses full-text electronic 
        resources.</p>
      <p>&#147;CONTENTdm has made it very easy to get our collections up and running,&#148; 
        said Pat Vince, LOUIS digital library manager. &#147;We were able to set 
        up our collection configuration, field properties, resolution manager 
        and controlled vocabulary-all our project parameters-quickly and easily.&#148;</p>
      <p>&#147;We have been able to use CONTENTdm with no training whatsoever,&#148; 
        Ms. Vince continued. &#147;I find the system to be very intuitive.&#148;</p>
      <p>The Office of Computing Services at Louisiana State University started 
        its own proprietary digital library system in 1996 but found that continued 
        research and development costs were too high. &#147;We were looking for 
        a turn-key option, and decided to migrate the existing 23 collections 
        from our proprietary system and begin digitizing new projects with CONTENTdm,&#148; 
        said Ms. Vince.</p>
      <p>The first digital collection migrated to CONTENTdm was the Ogden Museum 
        of Southern Art Collection, which includes more than 1,400 pieces of artwork. 
        &#147;Providing a digital collection via the Web allows the museum to 
        extend access beyond time or space,&#148; said Ms. Vince. &#147;Other 
        worthy collections migrated to the LOUISiana Digital Library include items 
        about the people and events that played a significant role in the history 
        of our state and nation.&#148;</p>
      <p>The first new project for the LOUISiana Digital Library was to digitize 
        a collection of historical aerial photographs of Louisiana dating between 
        1939 and 1987. These photographs show the historical and geographical 
        changes in the state, especially the Mississippi River Delta and coastal 
        wetlands loss.<br>
        &#147;We look forward to adding many more significant digital projects 
        to our CONTENTdm collections,&#148; said Ms. Vince.</p>
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