From VHS to MP4: Improving Access to 40 Years of Literary Recordings

Accessibility ● Applying WCAG 2.0 standards ● Creating captions for all videos ● Can we upload uncaptioned videos to the Internet? ● Can we upload uncaptioned videos but restrict to the campus community? ● How will we fund the captioning? How will we prioritize the videos to be captioned? Faculty/Librarian Collaboration ● Include digitized content within lesson plans ● Library-hosted LibGuides to support students’ research ● Promote related library resources ○ Databases, books, ebooks, journals, media, events ● Subject-Librarian outreach with appropriate Departments ● Discipline-specific Information Literacy instruction for literature and creative writing classes ● Faculty/Librarian led workshops on utilizing resources