Repository spotlight: Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection

http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm4/index_jfabc.php?CISOROOT=/jfabc

I just got back to the office from ALA's midwinter meeting, and will be sharing my notes about the conference over the course of the next few weeks.

I did want to make a note of the School of the Art Institute's Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection, as design-wise it's one of the first ContentDM sites that I have seen that looks like it has transcended the look and structure that ContentDM gives you right out of the box. I thought this was notable, given my last posting. I like the interface -- Simple, straightforward, unintimidating and unique.

I got the impression that they are using ContentDM because it is available, rather than having chosen that for themselves. They are using simple Dublin Core for their metadata, as that is what the software supports. Their ILS is Voyager and they use OCLC Connexion to push a MARC record into ContentDM. The woman presenting this collection ended with plea: "Ask OCLC to use METS and MODS *please!*"