Exterior photo of Smathers Library (formerly Library East) at the University of Florida, photo from the University of Florida Digital Collections

"Researching with the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC)" Presentation at CITT

September 11, 2008 (2pm)
Presented by Missy & Laurie

Learn what the University of Florida Digital Collections have to offer and how to fully explore the broad range of resources available. We’ll cover the basics of UFDC: searching, advanced searching (including by collection and subcollection), viewing results, and saving images. We will also cover tips and tricks: collections that may be of particular interest to researchers and for use in teaching, how to view technical information for the collections, using the email contact forms for help, and using the citation on items to find the permanent URL. The majority of the time will be spent learning about the wonderful resources the UF Libraries have to offer in UFDC.

• General Overview of the UF Digital Collections (UFDC):
  • Over 96,105 items (loading an average of 10,000 items entailing 150,000 pages a month)
  • Books, images, newspapers, audio, video, artifacts, museum objects
  • Free, Open Access (no login of any sort required; accessible from anywhere by anyone)
  • Full text and full text searchable
  • High quality, large, zoomable page images (newspapers, photos, etc)
  • Items not necessarily in the Library Catalog (we're working on it!)
  • Searched by Google
  • Items from UF and partners
  • Digital Preservation with the Florida Digital Archive (FDA)
  • Historical and contemporary publications through grants of permissions
• UFDC Collection Strengths
  • Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
  • Digital Library of the Caribbean
  • Florida Digital Newspaper Library
  • Maps
  • Aerial Photography
  • Collection List
• Browsing & Searching
  • Browsing all items with thumbnails, new items as thumbnails, searching
  • Basic and advanced searching
  • Results
• Item Level
  • Page Image View
  • Citation View
  • PURL
  • Zoomable Image View
  • Thumbnail View
  • Map It! View
  • Downloads
  • Table of Contents
  • Saving images; help pages
• Working with UFDC
  • Resource for research and teaching
  • Acquiring materials, requesting permissions
  • Class tours of the Digital Library Center, independent study and projects
  • Departmental Library Contacts
• Discussion of questions, exploring UFDC
  • Florida Archives Photos
  • UFDC: www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc
  • Digital Library Center: www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital

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