Comments on: Retrospective Dissertation Scanning http://library.gameology.org/2007/11/19/retrospective-dissertation-scanning/ A chronicle of work in UF's Digital Library Center Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:57:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Gavin Baker http://library.gameology.org/2007/11/19/retrospective-dissertation-scanning/#comment-97 Gavin Baker Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:22:59 +0000 http://library.gameology.org/2007/11/19/retrospective-dissertation-scanning/#comment-97 The only thing that comes to mind is to use the various alumni channels. There's an alumni newsletter you could try to get an announcement in, plus the Alumni Association's Web site, the colleges' and programs' individual alumni programs, reunion events, and so on. You might even be able to get the list directly for graduates of thesis- and dissertation-producing programs and contact them via direct mail. If you're not doing those things already :) BTW, are you digitizing dissertations in the public domain (produced pre-1923), requiring no permission? I had an interesting experience earlier this year digitizing my mother's dissertation. It's not professional quality, but at least now it's available. I deposited it in her alma mater's IR, but they never accepted it, so instead I posted it to NDLTD: http://etdindividuals.dlib.vt.edu:9090/30/ The only thing that comes to mind is to use the various alumni channels. There’s an alumni newsletter you could try to get an announcement in, plus the Alumni Association’s Web site, the colleges’ and programs’ individual alumni programs, reunion events, and so on. You might even be able to get the list directly for graduates of thesis- and dissertation-producing programs and contact them via direct mail. If you’re not doing those things already :)

BTW, are you digitizing dissertations in the public domain (produced pre-1923), requiring no permission?

I had an interesting experience earlier this year digitizing my mother’s dissertation. It’s not professional quality, but at least now it’s available. I deposited it in her alma mater’s IR, but they never accepted it, so instead I posted it to NDLTD: http://etdindividuals.dlib.vt.edu:9090/30/

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