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Item Here Be Dragons: Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Legacy Thesis and Dissertation Digitization(2021-05) Wu, Annie; Cooper, Crystal; Davis Van-Atta, Taylor; Jones, Jerrell; Ramirez, Ada Laura; Scott, Bethany; Thompson, Santi; Washington, Anne; Weidner, AndrewDigitizing 19,000 print theses and dissertations for ingest into an institutional repository is a daunting task fraught with pitfalls and peril. In the Fall of 2018, the Theses and Dissertations Digitization (TDD) Task Force at the University of Houston (UH) Libraries fearlessly set out to accomplish just that. We have learned many lessons about the legal and technical environment surrounding the retrospective digitization of scholarly works. This poster, presented at the 2021 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, provides an overview of the project and highlights the many challenges the team faced as it assessed the project scope, developed workflows, and bootstrapped production activities.Item Metadata Works From Home: How Student Workers Continued to Work While Increasing Collection Accessibility(2020-11-09) Vinson, Emily; Weidner, Andrew; Cooper, Crystal; Tripp, NickFaced with campus closures, a University of Houston Libraries team developed plans to engage student employees in creating closed captions for hundreds of archival videos on the Libraries’ Audio/Video Repository. Panelists describe the project and address unique challenges related to transcribing archival content, including dated and offensive content.