Hello everyone,

 

Please see this upcoming event from our friends at Research Libraries UK that may be of interest.

Best,
Gayle

 

 

 

Dear Gayle,

Apologies to email again, I thought that this might be of interest to DLF colleagues, especially as it’s a US led initiative.

 

Please do feel free to circulate to DLF colleagues.

 

Best,

 

Matt

 

Dear colleagues,

Please see below for details of a forthcoming seminar which will be of interest to colleagues working across the archive and special collections community.

 

Carly-Wanner Hyde, of Greenhouse Studios, will outline a new mobile ‘phone application which allows archivists, researchers, and repositories to speedily produce/request reference scans of archives and special collections. The result of a Mellon funded project, the application seeks to ‘supply a better way for researchers to request reference scans and archivists a better way to fulfil them’.

 

Please see below for further details and to register.

 

RLUK Digital Shift Forum #RLUKDSF 

 

RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum (#RLUKDSF) brings together colleagues from across the information, research, cultural and heritage communities, and third and commercial sectors, to discuss the future of the digital shift in research collections, services, and audiences. 

 

RLUKDSF events are free to attend and open to all. You can register for this and upcoming RLUKDSF events on the RLUK website.

 

Wednesday 4 May 2022, 14.00-15.00 BST

Utilizing Sourcery: an app for archivists, researchers, and repositories of all sizes

Carly Wanner-Hyde, project lead of Sourcery and design technologist, Greenhouse Studios

 

The needs of archivists and researchers have never changed as quickly as they have in the past two years: travel restrictions, financial pressures, health and safety concerns, and more have shifted how we navigate both the physical and digital spaces of reference and research. These changes have highlighted the need for improved digital infrastructure, not only for the duration of the pandemic but also afterward, especially for people who rely on digital infrastructure such as those with disabilities or without the means to travel. Meeting the growing demand among remote patrons for reference scans of archival documents is one area in which this situation is especially acute.

 

Sourcery is a mobile application that aims to supply a better way for researchers to request reference scans and archivists a better way to fulfill them. Sourcery provides archivists with a streamlined reference scanning workflow, payment processing services, and rich usage analytics. It provides researchers with a single interface for placing document requests across multiple remote repositories. Project lead and design technologist Carly Wanner-Hyde will give an overview of the app and lead a conversation as to how Sourcery can become a dynamic tool for both researchers and repositories, and how it may be better tailored to the needs of institutions in the future.

 

Register for this event: here

 

With very best wishes,

 

Matt

 

 

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