American Antiquarian SocietyDGI consulted with the American Antiquarian Society in its efforts to modernize its network, upgrade its technology infrastructure, and migrate its bibliographic database to a contemporary platform. This work has led to DGI's continued involvement in the Society's major initiative to convert the catalog of its holdings into a comprehensive, high quality MARC database which runs on a contemporary public access catalog (OPAC). | The French Library and Cultural CenterDGI acted as the consultant to the French Library and Cultural Center in the development of its plan for automation. During a series of meetings with Center staff and administration, goals for the project were developed, specifications for the OPAC software were defined, and policies were created.
DGI was subsequently selected as the retrospective conversion vendor for the Library's extraordinary collection. The recon project involved updating holdings on OCLC and reviewing name authorities.
Prior to migrating the records to the library's new ILMS, subjects were authorized. DGI was also responsible for producing smart barcodes for the entire collection. | Historic New England
(formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities)Historic New England benefits from a range of services provided by DGI. Starting with a retrospective conversion to supply electronic records for portions of their collections, HNE moved through the process of choosing a software vendor, evaluating legacy data, and standardizing and consolidating their data. DGI performed the retrospective conversion and continues to provide consulting and data cleanup services to support this process. | St. Brigid School Library, West Hartford, CTDGI provided retrospective conversion services to St. Brigid's School Library to make their library more accessible to their students and staff. DGI made an inventory of the collection, matching shelf list cards to the books, annotating the cards as necessary, and creating photocopy surrogates where no cards existed. During the inventory process, the books were barcoded as well. Catalogers working in our office used the cards and surrogates to search for bibliographic records in various databases and create original records when no copy was available. Spine labels were printed from these records. DGI also consulted on the selection of an integrated library management system (ILMS). | The Thomas Jefferson FoundationDGI assisted the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in assessing its information management requirements and in the selection of a new and more robust integrated library management system (ILMS). The consulting assignment consisted of an information audit, evaluation of current information management practices, and interviews with representatives of various departments and the Library staff. The study resulting from this audit has aided the Library in determining ways in which the new ILMS can be woven into the intellectual and information management practices of the Foundation. DGI was subsequently contracted to undertake the migration of the library's catalog to a consistent, high-quality MARC database which was delivered to the OPAC vendor. | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research ReserveDGI provided consulting services in the form of an information audit for the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The result of the audit was the creation of a management plan for information resources. The plan addressed issues relating to utilization of resources available in the library and several other locations, access to commercial databases and policies for information sharing. The plan also set the requirements for the library's selection of an online public access catalog (OPAC) and enhancements to the Reserve's LAN. |
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