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2007
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ756549 |
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- On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! Overview of a Digital Project from Start to Finish Goans, Doug Hackbart-Dean, Pam Kata, Lauren Electronic Libraries Skilled Workers Reprography Financial Support Library Networks Preservation Unions Online Searching Resource Materials Access to Information Media Adaptation Information Technology Library Materials Information Dissemination Electronic Publishing Computer Peripherals Data In 2004, Georgia State University (GSU) Library's Southern Labor Archives, located in Atlanta, began working with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to plan for the digitization of the union's 105-year-old journal. With generous financial support from IAM, the authors, who are GSU staff members, began microfilming and digitizing "Machinists' Monthly Journal" and "The Machinist" newspaper in 2004. "Machinists' Monthly Journal" was IAM's official journal from 1889 to 1956, then "The Machinist" became the official publication until 1994. When the project was completed in spring 2006, GSU Library had realized its two goals: creating preservation copies of the volumes and, through the development of a digital library system, providing searchable online versions of the journal and newspaper for interested users all over the world. This article presents an overview of the digital conversion project from start to finish. (Contains 2 endnotes.)