Volume 1, Issue 3
Spring 2004
North Carolina
ECHO
Exploring Cultural Heritage Online
NC ECHO
State Library of North Carolina
4640 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4640
Newsletter
Phone: (919) 807-7418
Editor: Kim Cumber
Special points of interest:
• NC ECHO Digitization
Institutes help train
special collections
professionals from
around the state
• NC ECHO welcomes new
Project Manager Peggy
Schaeffer, p.3
Inside this issue:
Spring NC ECHO Digitization Institutes Held in Raleigh
NC ECHO held two
week-long Digitization Institutes at
the State Library in Raleigh this
spring— March 1-5 and 22-26, 2004.
These Institutes focused on giving
participants a sound knowledge
base for the management of a digiti¬
zation program as well as giving
them instruction on the fundamen¬
tals of scanning, web page design,
and metadata creation.
Twelve librarians partici¬
pated in each Institute. Twenty-four
public servants now possess the
basic skills and information they
need to successfully administer a
digitization program for special col¬
lections in their libraries.
David Olson, Deputy
Secretary of Arts and Libraries for
the North Carolina Department of
Cultural Resources, was an inspira¬
tional guest speaker on the first day
of each institute, and his remarks
set the tone for the rest of each
week. Mr. Olson, in his inimitable
style, addressed the issue of why
we in the cultural heritage commu¬
nity are undertaking digital projects
and embracing this technology in
Digitization Institute 4 participants at the State Capitol.
Back row (l-r): Alice Soles, Maltha Turney, Ann Wright, Carter
Cue, Lydia Davis; Front row (l-r): Anne Ciometz, Jerry' Carroll,
Cheryl McLean, Arleen Fields, Nancy' Garner, Charlie Lackey
the first place. He shared his per¬
sonal experiences as former long¬
time State Archivist and illuminated
the core reason for “going digital" —
reaching our audiences and sharing
the resources we have worked so
hard to save for posterity. Mr. Ol¬
son's talk brilliantly illustrated the
ideas that are the foundation of NC
ECHO — cultural institutions exist to
collect and make available to the
public their unique resources: the
Internet is the way present genera¬
tions seek information and the Inter¬
net provides an unprecedented op¬
portunity for re¬
source sharing:
therefore, it is
through the Inter¬
net that we as
cultural heritage
professionals will
be able to best share what we have
to offer.
Participants embarked on
their journey into digitization on the
right foot and departed the institutes
with a strong knowledge and thor¬
ough understanding of the digitiza¬
tion process thanks to Mr. Olson
and the efforts of all the institute
instructors — Jan Blodgett, David¬
son College Archivist; Lynn Eaton,
RBMSC Library, Duke University;
Druscie Simpson, Information Tech¬
nology Branch, State Archives; and
Katherine Wisser, NC ECHO Meta¬
data Coordinator. The next NC
ECHO Digitization Institute will be in
September of this year.
Metadata Matters 2
NC ECHO Project Manager 2
Spotlight 3
MarkYourCalendars 3
ASCWG 4
ASCWG Chair David Ferriero Accepts
Prestigious Position in New York City
David Ferriero, Chair of NC ECHO'S
advisory group and currently the Rita
DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librar¬
ian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs at
Duke University, has been named the
Andrew W. Mellon Director and Chief
Executive of The Research Libraries at
New York Public Library. David Ferriero
was integral in forming the ASCWG
and shaping the NC ECHO project from
its inception. NC ECHO is truly fortunate
to have enjoyed his expertise and wise
council for as long as we have, and the
NC ECHO staff will greatly miss his supe¬
rior guidance. It is with great sadness
that we wish him well in his new position.
Our loss is New York's gain.
Kim Cumber
David S. Ferriero
