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    The contribution module is a tool for soliciting, gathering and displaying stories of and from your community. This manual will show you how to configure your Contribution module, and display and showcase your Contributed items.

    Contributing organizations that use VITA need a designated site administrator. The site administrator is responsible for: Customizing site graphics Maintaining and updating site and public interface information Checking and approving comments, links, and other action items Acting as the main contact for OurDigitalWorld staff in re: site and/or toolkit news ...

    One of the features of VITA is the ability to create “groups” of records. Creating "groups" facilitates better collection management, scoped search queries and result sets, and will prove invaluable when creating virtual exhibits when you want to showcase specific items in your collection. Groups also lets you customize the ...

    If you are indexing Newspaper content, like articles, clippings or Birth, Marriage and Death records,this manual will help you understand the best practices and workflows for adding those index records to your VITA collection and adding linked indexing for full-run newspaper discovery.

   

    If you're working with full-run newspapers - whether you are doing it in-house or have had a collection ingested - this manual helps explain how to add and manage Newspaper Parent Publication records and Add Issues to those Publications.

    Use the Exhibits feature to create collections and stories to enhance your VITA site and its contents. The Exhibits Manual is broken down into the following sections: Add Or Update Exhibit Full Record Labels & Links Style Additional Styling Elements Add / Manage Content Page / Panel Management Adding & ...

    Anyone with level 3 security can see and manage agency screens in VITA as well as any action items. With different subscriptions come different options within agency management. Use this guide to navigate to the features you want to manage including: Agency profile: Labels and addresses User accounts (Personnel) Image ...

    Master the basics of how to add and manage records in your VITA collection You have the option of downloading the complete manual, or searching for specific topics by chapter or keyword: Getting Started Adding Records Creating Records in VITA Display Screen File/Technical Data Descriptive Data Geographic Data Administrative Data ...

    This manual will show you how to quickly find and update specific records in your collection. Contents: Part 1: Getting Started 1.1 Logging in Part 2: Searching and Updating 2.1 Search or Update Records 2.2 Prooflist 2.3 Top 100 Records 2.4 Record ID Part 3: Advanced Search 3.1 Limiting Keyword ...

   

    A quick guide for gathering the right information about your VITA Collection & subscription for corresponding fields in the Heritage, Sport, Tourism, and Culture Industries' Annual Survey of Public Libraries 2021. Statistics are due April 30, 2022. Here's what counts: - The Number of Records in the collection - Your ...

    If you are indexing Newspaper content, like articles, clippings or Birth, Marriage and Death records,this manual will help you understand the best practices and workflows for adding those index records to your VITA collection and adding linked indexing for full-run newspaper discovery.

    How to write queries to add to your Library or other organizational catalogue system to return scoped search results from your VITA collection along with your other catalogue items.

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