Digital collections for digital literacy

Community Idea Exchange

 24 June 2021

 10:00–11:15

In this session a we will give short presentation of the UL digital collections featuring ways to use this collection for digital literacy of concepts such us: types of digital collections, digitized collections vs born digital collections, metadata vs full-text search, open access vs in the public domain publications, copyright and creative commons licenses. The presentation we end by introducing the library team responsible for the in-house technical production of the UL digitization collections.

Speakers

  • Mona Assi

    Director of Library Systems and Applications, American University of Beirut

  • Fatme Charafeddine

    Associate University Librarian, Research and Academic Collaboration Services, American University of Beirut

  • Basma Chebani

    Associate University Librarian for Cataloging and Metadata Services, American University of Beirut

  • Elie Kahale

    Director of Digital Initiatives and Scholarship, American University of Beirut

Session resources