ABOUT
ABOUT
The online Dental Instruments: Past and Present digital collection is made possible by a National Network of Libraries of Medicine grant awarded in Summer 2017 to Stony Brook University Librarians: Kathleen Kasten, Head of Humanities and Social Sciences; Jamie Saragossi, Head of the Health Sciences Library; and Shafeek Fazal, Associate Dean for Library Technology, Discovery, and Digital Initiatives.
The works contained within this collection are the final products of a joint collaboration between the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library, Library Information Technology, and the Preservation Department. The project was conducted during the Spring 2015 academic semester, and its goal was to create a digital exhibit based on the Dental Instruments: Past and Present exhibit on display in the Health Sciences Library by digitizing images, text, and objects.
The physical exhibit went on display at the Health Sciences Library in 2014 and is composed of items from several collections, including: The Mills Collection, the collection of Dr. Allan Kucine, the Baer Collection (held at the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine), as well as items provided by the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine and a copy of The long climb: From barber-surgeons to doctors of dental surgery, donated by the author, Philias Garant, DDS, Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine. This digital collection represents the items on view in the physical collection, complemented by a bibliography, educational references, and explanatory texts.
All metadata in the Description field that are displayed in CAPS represents the text as found on the physical item.
Digital Project Advisors
Bushra Butt, (retired) Head of Monographic Cataloging Resource Management Services, Stony Brook University Libraries
Darren Chase, former Head of Scholarly Communication, Stony Brook University Libraries
Ann Gleason, former Head of the Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University Libraries
Keith Krejci, former Senior Library Clerk, Stony Brook University Libraries
Jason Torre, Head, Preservation Department, Stony Brook University Libraries
Susan White, (retired) Head of Serials & Electronic Resource Management, Stony Brook University Libraries
Digitization
Format Creation
Two dimensional pieces were captured on a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL using a 64-bit PC operating system. Many 3-Dimensional images were captured on a Canon EOS Rebel T3I in Raw format, uncompressed, then compressed using Digital Professional to batch convert the original capture information to the above JPEG and TIFF. Some 3-Dimensional images were captured on a Nikon D750 with a Nikon 28-70 f2.8 lens and a Nikon SB 800 flash in Raw format, uncompressed, then compressed using Digital Professional to batch convert the original capture information to the above JPEG and TIFF.
File Format
Group 4 TIFF, 24 bit color, 600 dpi, lossless compression. JPEG, 24 bit color, 300 dpi, jpeg compression rate.
Photography and Scanning
Kathleen Kasten, former Head of Humanities & Social Sciences, Stony Brook University Libraries
Keith Krejci, Senior Library Clerk, Stony Brook University Libraries
Jason Torre, Head, Preservation Department, Stony Brook University Libraries
Cataloging and Metadata
Bushra Butt, (retired) Head of Monographic Cataloging Resource Management Services, Stony Brook University Libraries
Kathleen Kasten, former Head of Humanities & Social Sciences, Stony Brook University Libraries
Jason Torre, Head, Preservation Department, Stony Brook University Libraries
Online Digital Collection
Anastasia Chiu, former Cataloging and Metadata Librarian
Shafeek Fazal, Associate Dean, Library Technology, Discoverability, & Digital Initiatives
John Fitzgerald, Senior Programmer/Analyst
Timothy Fitzpatrick, NNLM Fellow
Dana Haugh, former Web Services Librarian
Victoria Pilato, Digital Projects Librarian
Chris Sauerwald, former Multimedia Resources Specialist