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During 2016, the Royal Danish Library digitized more than 200.000 pages from the library's, collections all of which related to the former colonies in the Caribbean. This included books and other printed matter, but also sheet music, manuscripts, personal documents, photographs and drawings. Images were published in Digital Collections, the library's platform for digitized materials, and were accompanied by limited metadata, thereby posing challenges in terms of accessibility and important historical contextualisation. This essay therefore reflects on the gaps and the silences that haunt indexing and descriptive practices in the migration online. Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer is Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Danish Library and has been project-managing the digitisation. Temi Odumosu is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Malmö University and has worked intensively with the collection as user and collaborator in the project What Lies Unspoken. As the Library embarks on initiatives to address the limited metadata associated with its digital collections, the authors come together to unfold key questions about approaches and process. They describe the characteristics of Digital Collections and the metadata currently provided, and ask what is left out and why; thereby engaging cultural biases that uneasily mirror the colonial project. The authors also explore how more inclusive user involvement, particularly in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), could shift language and epistemology. The leading inquiry question is: In the one-eyed colonial archive, what is it possible for metadata to do?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores projects by the Alexander Turnbull Library to collect social media materials that reflect contemporary New Zealand culture and life. The article focuses on projects to harvest Twitter content relating to the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake and the 2017 New Zealand General election, and the ATL100 Facebook Archive project, which piloted collecting personal Facebook account archives relating to Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific from the general public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The inclusion of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) literature in school media centers can be controversial, but such material can be beneficial in helping LGBT students come to terms with their sexuality and with helping to foster understanding in non-LGBT students. To examine the extent of such collections in school media centers, this research conducted a checklist exercise to examine the holdings of school libraries in two very different states, one in the northeastern United States and one in the southern United States. The study examined variables that may correlate with the number of LGBT books available in the libraries; these variables were size of school enrollment, type of locale, the existence of a fairness ordinance, demographic diversity, and political affiliation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers world news briefs related to digitization. The academic database publisher Alexander Street Press LLC collaborated with online education provider Medcom- Trainex to produce the "Nursing Education in Video," designed for nursing faculty and students. The American Craft Council Library documented the history of contemporary craft. The Connecticut State Library unveiled its digital collection of 206 terrorist attacks and the state government's response.

The article offers news briefs related to library collections in the U.S. It mentions the Septimus D. Cabaniss Papers Digitization Project of the University of Alabama Libraries which offers web delivery of manuscript materials. It notes the Jack Sheaffer Photograph Digital Collection of the University of Arizona Libraries which contains 10,000 images of documents about the state's history from 1955 to 1975. It notes the Quilts Collection at the Tennessee State Library.

Examines the existing selection practices in libraries, identifies the selection policies and best practices where they exist, and discusses the implications of the opportunities and constraints that shape digital-conversion programs. Key features of a digitization program; Rationales for digitization; Access for outreach and community goals.

Argues that there are certain areas of traditional classification, knowledge management and physical library arrangement that have special applicability to electronic collection building. Problems with the approach of librarians to electronic collection building; Examination of knowledge management at British academic libraries; Common features of the traditional and the electronic library.