Digitizing & Uploading Metadata

April 3rd (Sacramento Room)

Today I received a tutorial in how the Sacramento Room utilizes OCLCs Content DM software to create and manage it's digital collections online.  According to the Sacramento Room's digital collections website, (see http://cdm16362.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about) The Sacramento Room Digitization Project is "made possible by funding from the Sacramento Public Library Foundation, Sacramento Room Endowment, and was launched in October 2010 with the intention of showcasing, in digital form, several choice images from the Sacramento Public Library’s Sacramento Room. The project mission is to provide an image-based window into the social, political and economic history of the Greater Sacramento area from the 1840s to the present day. The Digitization Project is also intended to be a dynamic venture, seeking growth through the addition of collections and improvement through staff scholarship and community input." 

This image of Mather Aviation School, ca 1920s, is one we chose to upload into the collection as an example: http://cdm16362.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15248coll1/id/3289