WebJunction

Description:

Course Description
The basic functionality for CONTENTdm is covered in three courses: Adding Visual Materials, Adding Textual Materials, and Maintaining Collections. Participants may take either or both of the first two courses, but must take at least one in order to take the third course on maintenance.

CONTENTdm 5: Adding Textual Materials covers the basics for importing textual materials. Specifically, we will customize a collection for textual material, create a project, and import PDFs and compound objects.

Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, the participant should be able to:

• Customize a collection for textual materials
• Import, edit, upload, and make PDF documents publicly accessible and searchable
• Import a document with a transcript and make the object publicly accessible and searchable
• Import a monograph with a transcript and make the object publicly accessible and searchable

Target Audience
Library staff who use or will be using CONTENTdm

Prerequisites
None

Homework Expectations and Completion Requirements
Approximately one hour of homework will be required each day.

It is designed for individual participation; each individual must register. Additional information about Amigos courses is available here.

Technical Requirements
Live Online System Requirements

Requirements for participants:

• Install Project Client (available on course website if not already available; must be uninstalled at the end of course)
• Current browser

Schedule
This course consists of two 2-hour sessions.

Amigos members receive the benefit of member pricing. The member rate for this workshop is $200.00.