About the Committee
Chair: Laura Clark Brown, UNC
Members
Committee Charge

Task Group Documents
Planning Grant Application
 

Events and Programs
Collaborative Manuscript Digitization Planning (2/26/10)
Collaborative Manuscript Digitization Planning (3/23/10)

Focus Groups
Faculty (4/16/10)
     Feedback
Scholarly Communications (06/23/10)
     Rights Meeting | Adviews | Adviews Response
Digital Production/Storage (07/27/10)
     Assumptions | Minutes | Conclusions
Metadata & Discovery (08/06/10)
     metadata.pps | discovery.pps

Next Meetings
scheduling in process

Meeting Archive
Minutes

TRLN Staff Contact
Judy Ruttenberg, Program Officer

The Digitization Grants Task Group will provide updates and reports to the Collections Council.

Charge: to seek initial grant funding to plan a large-scale manuscript digitization project. If the project is funded, the TRLN libraries will build an open-access collection of digitized manuscript materials, employing other cooperative principles identified in the TRLN White Paper "Large-Scale Digitization: A TRLN Agenda," such as agreement on standards. The grant proposal should include a plan to engage local scholars as advisors to the collection, and a statement of future sustainability if awarded. The digital collection will draw from the collections of all four institutions and focus on the American South.

The Task Group will begin its efforts by writing and submitting an application for a planning grant from IMLS. The grant application is due February 1, 2010. If successful, the group will be reconfigured with a new charge to carry the project forward. If unsuccessful, the Task Group should pursue other options for this first round of funding.

Timeline  print timeline

1. 2009
   1. November
      • Digitization Grants Task Group charged by the TRLN Collections Council
   2. December
      • Early planning meetings of the Digitization Grants Task Group held (December through February)
2. 2010
   1. January
   2. February
      • 18th-Submitted LSTA planning grant application
        
        26th-Held meeting of key staff at the four institutions who are involved in large-scale digitization. Group set a baseline for planning the Southern Americana Digitization Project and identified the critical issues that will be addressed in the focus groups
   3. March
      • Submitted a proposal to the program committee of the Association for the study of African American Life and History for a session at the annual conference in Raleigh (Sep. 2010)
        
        23rd-Held focus group of curators and research staff at UNC, Duke, NCCU, and NCSU
   4. April
      • 16th-Held first focus group of faculty members from the four institutions
   5. May
      • Met with two additional faculty members for input
   6. June
      • 23rd-Convene scholarly communications staff on rights issues
        
        Summer 2010: Convene and consult with various staff on areas such as digital production and workflows; budget and personnel; rights issues.
   7. July
      • 19th-TRLN Annual Meeting/Task Group presentation
   8. August
      • Hire graduate student project coordinator
   9. September
      • Conduct a session at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in Raleigh
   10. October
   11. November
       • Submit a Letter of Intent for a LSTA Digitization Project Grant
   12. December
3. 2011
   1. January
   2. February
      • Submit a grant application for a digitization project

Members:

Lisa Carter, NCSU
Laura Clark Brown, (Chair), UNC
 

Tim Pyatt, Duke
Andre Vann, NCCU
 

Staff to the Committee: Judy Ruttenberg