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Content, Context, and Capacity (CCC) is a collaborative large-scale manuscripts digitization project undertaken by the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) university libraries at Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The project began in summer 2011 and with continued funding, renewable annually, will conclude in 2014.
Together, the four university libraries will digitize a total of thirty-eight manuscript collections and archival record groups (creating approximately 400,000 digital objects). The digitized content will be freely accessible on the open web through both Search TRLN and the four university libraries’ websites.
The Long Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina (ca. 1930s–1980s) is the thematic focus of CCC.
The main goals of CCC are:
- To promote and support educational and scholarly research uses of modern manuscripts and archival resources
- To provide a proof of concept for a collaborative approach to large-scale digitization
- To develop shared standards and practices
- To test interinstitutional workflows for use by the four libraries and other potential partners in future digitization projects
Funding
The TRLN university libraries were awarded a $150,000 grant in June 2011. The grant is made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division on the Department of Cultural Resources. Funding is renewable annually for two additional years.
The project staff
Laura Clark Brown, Principal Investigator
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Laura is the coordinator of the Digital Southern Historical Collection and a research and instructional services librarian in the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked with the Southern Historical Collection since 2001, and between 2007 and 2009, she served as director for Extending the Reach of Southern Sources: Proceeding to Large-Scale Digitization of Manuscript Collections, a grant project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Laura holds masters' degrees in history and library and information science. She has published several essays including "Opening Archives on the Recent American Past: A Reconciliation of the Ethics of Access and Privacy" (co-authored with Nancy Kaiser) in Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (University of Georgia Press, Spring 2012).
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Joyce Chapman, Project Librarian
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Joyce began work as the Project Librarian for the CCC project in August 2011. Previously, Joyce was a Libraries Fellow at NC State Libraries, where she conducted research exploring the cost and value of metadata and led data analysis and visualization initiatives to help staff better understand how patrons use library spaces and services. Joyce received her Masters in Information Science from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2009. As a graduate student, she worked for the Southern Oral History Program, the Southern Historical Collection, and the Carolina Digital Library and Archives. Joyce is the 2011-2012 Society of American Archivists Description Section chair. She is a North Carolina native.
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Sam Leonard, Digital Production Manager
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Sam received her Masters in Library Science from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2011. While working at the Avery Fisher Center at New York University she was promoted to student manager, where she gained many skills in working with people and managing projects. As a Research Assistant for the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC-CH, she obtained experience processing and handling a variety of manuscript and archival formats. Working for the Hugh Morton Collection of Photographs and Film at UNC-CH allowed her to perform imaging of various special collection materials, train staff on the scanning equipment, and provide technical support for the HR 500 scanner. While working on the Hugh Morton Collection and “Driving Through Time” digital projects, she managed and produced metadata for archival materials on the content management systems ContentDM and Jango. As an intern at the local television station UNC-TV, she independently created an online project of UNC-TV photographic materials by creating workflows for digitization. This internship also allowed her to manage file formats and quality standards, provide reports about the project, and collaborate with UNC-TV employees. In her role as Digital Production Manager on the CCC project, Sam will supervise digital production, as well as the graduate student assistants who digitize materials using the Zeutschel overhead scanners.
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Please direct questions about the grant project to:
Joyce Chapman: chapmajc [at] email [dot] unc [dot] edu.
Reports, Publications, Presentations
Grant reporting
To view digitization milestone progress reports only, please see Digitization Milestone Progress. To see live production updates on specific collections, please see Digitization Progress.
