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| Jency Examining a Book for Conservation Issues |
Digitization for the Religion
in North Carolina Digital Collection began September 1, 2012 at the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Jency Williams, a first-year
MSLS student in the School of Information and Library Science interested
in Archives and Records Management is serving as the student work for the
project in the Wilson Special Collections Library.
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| Jency's Work Station |
Retrieving and preparing items for scanning by the Internet Archive Scribe machine are Jency's primary tasks as the dedicated student worker. The process of filling a book cart for digitization includes the following steps:
- Checking the item out in the circulation system
- Pulling the item from the shelf
- Analyzing each item to make sure it is the best available copy
- Examining the item for possible conservation issues
- Preparing the cart for the Scribe
- Sending necessary items to conservation
- Filling out a Wonderfetch form (The "wonderfetch' is a template for communicating and attaching metadata that will be attached to the item being scanned.)
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This cart is ready for Scanning!
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Student workers will be hired to pull books at the Duke Divinity School Library and Wake Forest University in the upcoming weeks. Jency has helped set a great pace at UNC-Chapel Hill and her work is a wonderful example for student workers to come!
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| African Methodism in the
South, or, Twenty-five Years of Freedom |
