Digital Commons support call

Had an informative support call/web chat with bepress staff today. Was reminded of a few things, and shown a number more I hadn't known about, such that I can make a start on some requests and projects. Plus got answers to some general questions, e.g. how much file space do we have, can we upload dozens of audio files etc. (The space generally is not a problem in terms of their capacity or our cost. The issue is more file size will affect uploading times for initial submission, and if we want to use the download option you don't want files too huge...)

Vistas/Jigsaw

Was contacted by college staff wanting to scan covers and perhaps some contents of this year's Jigsaw, and the first English club publication, the 1949 Vistas. I said I had them, could scan covers, there is a copyright issue with scanning contents.

Digital Commons

Still tinkering with the Public Management Program documents layout. Had a long phone chat with the grad student who is setting this up for them, or rather working with me to set it up. It's getting there, I just take much longer than Kim would have since I only half know what I am doing!

Residence Hall History

A chance encounter with a res life staffer this am led into being asked to share some of the history of the college residence halls and life with their staff in September. Looking forward to sharing some of this history, its fascinating really.

DC accounts, adding admn...

So I've reached out to bepress and have learned, or been reminded, of what I need to do to add someone as an administrator, how to get them set up so they can upload materials etc.

1930s video upload!

Very cool to be able to upload the student intern edited version of that 1930s home movie film yesterday (and today, it took a long time to upload, lol.) This new capability of Digital Commons to host film and audio is very nice.


https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/archival_videos/1/

More DC

A fair bit of back and forth via email helping someone finish uploading things into their Digital Commons.

More Digital Commons...

A student wondering where her capstone project went, working with a grad student who is tasked with setting up a new community for Public Admin...

An 1850s alumna

A researcher is writing about a Brockport area Civil War soldier who was married to a Collegiate Institute grad, Mary Allen. Tough era to research, an 1850s student. The only surviving BCI register is from the 1860s. The catalogs of the 1840s and '50s list student names, but that's it. No yearbooks etc., and the local BR only starts with late 1850s. I did see some mentions of her as Mary Cady, the local GAR Post was named after her husband.

Digital Commons

Lots of requests here lately. Someone can't find what they uploaded, I realize I don't seem to have access to all files, have emailed Bepress about that. Pub Admin wants a new community, I am working with them on that etc. Sure would be nice if we'd been given a clerk for our little unit last year...

Wrestling, scholarships...

Have been doing a lot of work on wrestling 50th lately, scanning several scrapbooks for example. Am going to set up a new section of Digital Commons soon under archives to house athletics historical stuff. Lots of requests for scholarship bio and photo materials too.