COVID-19 EMERGENCY ACCESS COLLECTION AT UIUC

With the onset of COVID-19 during my first year of graduate school, I worked with my team to shift from primarily digitizing rare books and special collections to digitizing in-copyright works that were unavailable in an electronic format. This ensured that students could have access to library materials no matter their location. I was primarily responsible for quality assurance and managing the flow of digitized assets to the library's internal repository, as well as training others on asset management and quality control skills. 

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This project is well-documented in the following article (cited below). 

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Rimkus, Kyle R., Alex Dolski, Brynlee Emery, Rachael Johns, Patricia Lampron, William Schlaack, and Angela Waarala. “Adaptive Digital Library Services: Emergency Access Digitization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 51 (June 14, 2021): N.PAG.