Michael Miller discusses updating the American Philosophical Society's subject guides from printed to digital format. The guides were converted to HTML and integrated into finding aids to improve access and highlight important collections. Metadata was standardized using Dublin Core, LC, and DACS formats. Examples show how the new digital guides now provide corrected subject terms, standardized call numbers, and faceted browsing for topics like genetics, Native American history, and early American history. The updated digital guides serve as portals for promoting useful knowledge of the Society's collections.

1. PORTALS FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE : APS SUBJECT GUIDES Michael Miller American Philosophical Society 22 October 2011

2. APS LIBRARY WEBSITE

3. EAD FINDING AIDS

4. KOHA

5. CONTENTDM

6. AEON

8. FROM PRINTED GUIDES TO TEXT ON A WEB

9. HTML SUBJECT GUIDES

10. OCR ERROR

11. MODERNIZING THE GUIDES

12. EXTENSIBLE TEXT FRAMEWORK (XTF)

13. UTILIZING ARCHIVISTS’ TOOLKIT

14. INTEGRATING GUIDES IN TO FINDING AIDS

16. A LOOK AT THE NEW GUIDES…

17. ANTHROPOLOGY

18. AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

19. QUANTUM PHYSICS

20. GENETICS

23. NATIVE AMERICAN – FACETS

24. NATIVE AMERICAN – BIBLIOGRAPHY

25. EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY

26. EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY – SPLASH PAGE

27. CONCLUDING REMARKS…

28. SUBJECT GUIDE AS A PORTAL

29. FIN