FOLIO Update
Duke is using FOLIO in production! We have eight apps that we’re using in production. For our electronic resources management, we are using Agreements, Licenses, Organizations, Users, and Settings....
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Rethinking Our Approach to Website Content Management
Fourteen-hundred pages with 70 different authors, all sharing information about library services, resources, and policies — over the past eight years, any interested library staff member has been able...
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Wars of Aliens, Men, and Women: or, Some Things we Digitized in the DPC this...
Post authored by Jen Jordan, Digital Collections Intern. As another strange year nears its end, I’m going out on a limb to assume that I’m not the only one around here challenged by a lack of focus....
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Respectfully Yours: A Deep Dive into Digitizing the Booker T. Washington...
Post authored by Jen Jordan, Digital Collections Intern. Hello, readers. This marks my third, and final blog as the Digital Collections intern, a position that I began in June of last year.* Over the...
View ArticleWeb Accessibility at Duke Libraries and Beyond — a Quick Start Guide
Coming on board as the new Web Experience Developer in the Assessment and User Experience Services (AUXS) Department in early 2022, one of my first priorities was to get up to speed on Web...
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Two Years In: The Finish Line Approaches for Digitizing Behind the Veil
Behind the Veil Digitization intern Sarah Waugh and Digital Collections intern Kristina Zapfe’s efforts over the past year have focused on quality control of interviews transcribed by Rev.com. This...
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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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Looking Back at Summer Camp 2023
Written by Will Shaw on behalf of the Library Summer Camp organizing committee. From June to August, most students may be off campus, but summer is still a busy time at Duke Libraries. Between...
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Behind the Scenes of Documenting the Patron Request Workflow
This post was authored by Behind the Veil/Digital Collections intern Kristina Zapfe. From the outside, viewing digitized items or requesting one yourself is a straightforward activity. Browsing images...
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How we broke up with Basecamp
We recently published a blog post outlining our recent decision to drop Basecamp as a project management platform. Several people have asked us to share our new solution(s), and we thought we would...
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