The Kentuckiana Digital Library was begun in 1997 and initially created finding aids for the University of Kentucky Libraries. It has since expanded to include books, images, maps, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, oral histories and more from digitization projects. The library has extensive experience digitizing materials from microfilm as well as newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program. It also digitizes oral histories from the Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History by synchronizing audio and transcripts. The library has become experts in various areas of digitization and aims to help others gain related skills through its work.

1. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections and Digital Programs Mary Molinaro molinaro@uky.edu @marymolinaro

2. Kentuckiana Digital Library Begun in 1997 with funding from the state Initially created for finding aids from KY Libraries Used OCLC Site Search as content management system Now resides on DLXS Steering committee of archivists http://kdl.kyvl.org/

3. Kentuckiana Digital Library Finding Aids Books Images Maps Manuscripts Journals Newspapers Oral Histories

4. Beyond the Shelf In 2002 IMLS funded project to digitize 1000 books on Kentucky from microfilm Preselected material from SOLINET Cooperative Microfilm Project Project very “boutique” Balance quality vs. quantity

5. Post QC image Source document image Microfilm image

6. National Digital Newspaper Program Funded by NEH Phase 1 - 2005 – we are now in Phase 3 Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ We proposed a totally in-house process! We also serve this content from the KDL

10. meta|morphosis: a film to digital workshop

12. Digitizing Oral History Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History 30 years of oral history Developed software to synch audio to searchable transcript – OHMS Equipment reviews on YouTube

15. In Summary… We have deep expertise in imaging, newspaper conversion, microfilm-to-digital conversion, and oral history We are a “can-do” operation We like to help others gain skills in these areas We are currently working on projects with “born digital” newspaper content and digital preservation