Case studies
Projects, customer stories, and examples for integrating primary source collections into your teaching or research.
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Sonoma County Library: Making digital collections available to allGeoffrey Skinner, Cataloging and Metadata Supervising Librarian, and Edy Dawson, Web Programmer Analyst, both from Sonoma County Library, a public library system located in California, talked to us about the importance of providing digital access to their collections with Quartex, in the light of specific human and natural challenges.
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Des Plaines Public Library: Digital storytelling of a community’s past, present, and futureIn 2021, the late Steven Giese, then Digital Projects Librarian at Des Plaines Public Library, talked us through the Library’s migration to Quartex and how his small team worked remotely to build and launch a new digital collections site that serves and engages their local community.
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Baylor University Libraries: Finding and implementing a flexible, futureproof digital collections platformDarryl Stuhr, Director for Digitization and Digital Preservation Services in the Library and Academic Technology Services Group at Baylor University, discusses the process of migrating from CONTENTdm to Quartex.
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Gender: Identity and Social Change in PhD research at Queen's UniversityAt the time of this case study, Emma McTavish was a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, Ontario, with a specialism in Victorian literature, life writing, gender and sexuality.