Suzanne Chapman

Chart to demonstrate the work flow of the University of Michigan’s digitization process.

Where: Midwest MLA / MHSLA 2008 Conference
When: October 19, 2008

HathiTrust (formerly known as MBooks) is a shared digital repository of millions of digitized volumes from over 20 member institution’s libraries.

Alexander, L., Carter, D., Chapman, S., Hollar, S., Weatherbee, J. “MLibrary 2.0: Create, share, and network.” C&RL News (April 2008)

Educause Midwest Regional Conference 2008. The University of Michigan’s MLibrary 2.0 staff development initiative combined theoretical frameworks and practical skills, enabling library staff to make connections between services, users, and technologies.

In early 2008, the University of Michigan Library announced the millionth digitized book. To celebrate this milestone, we threw a party to thank everyone involved. We also created a few visual displays to help demonstrate the significance of the milestone.

A group of University of Michigan web professionals who meet to discuss how we can improve the accessibility of our individual unit’s web presences as well as encourage and promote accessibility across the University.

Gutcult.com is an online poetry journal.

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources and currently provides access to over 18,000,000 records.

Hagedorn, K., Chapman, S. and Newman, D. “Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata.” D-Lib Magazine (July/August 2007).

Design & coding for the Great Lakes Digital Library collection site.

The Usability Working Group is charged with conducting a variety of user research and user testing of various University of Michigan Library interfaces.

Tolliver, R., Carter, D., Chapman, S., Edwards, P., & Al, E. “Website redesign and testing with a usability consultant: Lessons learned.” OCLC Systems and Services 21, no.3 (2005).