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Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources
Abby Clobridge, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Library, USA
- focuses on the bigger picture of repository work (creating a unified, cohesive program) but also includes suggestions for effectively implementing digital projects of all shapes and sizes
- focuses on doing more with less – strategies that are perfect for smaller institutions or institutions which want to be fiscally responsible when it comes to building and sustaining digital repository programs
- includes ready-to-use templates, worksheets, workshop exercises, and assessment tools written by the author
- includes strategies, case studies, and best practices from a wide variety of institutions which include easily-adoptable (or adaptable) systems, tools, workflows, tips and tricks
Whether you are just starting to create a digital repository or your institution already has a fully-developed program, this book provides strategies for building and maintaining a high-use, cohesive, and fiscally-responsible repository with collections that showcase your institution. The book explains how to strategically select projects tied to your institution’s goals, create processes and workflows designed to support a fully-functioning program, and creatively utilize existing resources. The benefits of taking a holistic approach to creating a digital repository program rather than focusing only on individual collections are discussed. Case studies and best practices from various institutions round out the author’s practical suggestions.
ISBN 1 84334 596 X
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 596 1
August 2010
270 pages 234 x 156mm paperback
£47.00 / US$80.00 / €60.00
Not yet published
About the author
Abby Clobridge is currently the Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Services at the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Library. Prior to joining Harvard, she worked in various academic and special libraries including Bucknell University, where she created a digital repository program, and CNN, where she worked as an investigative researcher and news librarian. Ms. Clobridge and her colleague, David Del Testa, won the 2009 ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award for their development of the World War II Poster Project, a digital library project designed to teach undergraduate students information literacy and technology fluency skills.
Contents
Why build a digital repository program? overlaps and differences between a digital program, digital projects and collections, digital libraries, and institutional repositories; Strategic planning: developing a strategy, mission, and vision for a digital program; aligning institutional and library-wide strategic planning with strategic planning for a digital repository program; identifying internal resources; needs assessment; Technical overview: high-level overview of digital asset management systems; open source vs. licensed software; hosted vs. locally-implemented systems; Metadata production: differences between traditional cataloguing work and metadata production; metadata production vs. the craft of metadata; Content recruitment strategies: recruiting content from outside of the library; collaborating with faculty, building and sustaining interest from external constituencies in a digital repository program; Case studies and best practices from the field: tips, tricks, and best practices from a wide range of libraries for stretching resources, workflows, systems, and tools to adopt; low-tech solutions to potentially high-cost problems; The future: the changing landscape, library as publisher, Open Access, the Google Book Project, mass digitization projects, long-term digital preservation.