Thread by @natlibscot

It's #LibrariesWeek and today's focus is on #LibraryWorkers. So here's a wee thread about our staff members who work with digital collections.

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo Anette the Curator selects and prepares collection items for digitisation. “We have very rare and unique items… which unless digitised would remain inaccessible.”

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo Fred the Copyright specialist clears the rights, enabling us to provide access to our digital collections. “It’s good to be digital – to keep up.”

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo Mary is a Conservator and her role is to repair or treat fragile collection items before they go under the camera. “I’m lucky to have a sneak peek of incredible items before they go to be digitised.”

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo @NLSColl_Care Gabrielle is a Specialist Digital Production Operator and works with our Dragon digitisation system. She captures and post-processes rare and fragile collection items.

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo @NLSColl_Care Francine the Ingester imports data into our storage repository. “The best bit about my job is going online and seeing the books on the screen, available far and wide, and thinking 'I did that'.”

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo @NLSColl_Care Alastair the Digital Infrastructure Specialist manages the hardware that holds our digital collections. “Our commitment to have a third of our collections in digital format by 2025 is bold and pioneering.”

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo @NLSColl_Care Kirsten the Metadata Creator adds descriptions (without which our digitised images would mean nothing and be impossible to find). “By transforming our collections we’re bringing them to more people.”

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo @NLSColl_Care Alison the Web Editor uploads images to our website and describes them for a general audience. “The digitisation project feeds into the Library’s ability to provide access to knowledge for everyone.”

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@librariesweek @CILIPinfo @NLSColl_Care “As a physical library we've accumulated awe-inspiring works. But today our users want navigable online content. So we’re transforming our content for users to access wherever and whenever they want.”

Dr John Scally, the National Librarian.

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