The SILS Digital Library Repository began
its existence as
the “Pathfinder Digital Library”. This “Pathfinder DL” was created by
Matthew
Bachtell and Ying Zhang, as a final project for Dr.
Gary Marchionini’s
Digital
Libraries course (INLS 235). The Pathfinder Digital Library provided
organized
linked lists of pathfinders and had two archived pathfinders.
Now, this project has become the SILS
Digital Project
Repository (DPR) and the new co-administrators (Becca
Cahill,
Adam Webb, and Kristen Wilson) have expanded its scope to include
portals and
other projects in addition to pathfinders. The DPR currently houses
around 60
archived/mirrored projects and includes approximately 60 links to
non-archived
works. Why archive? Student web space is relatively ephemeral after
students
leave SILS and archiving these digital projects is the only way to
preserve
students’ work for years to come. The DPR will gladly accept project
submissions at any time and the current administrators plan to maintain
the DPR
until they graduate.
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