Building a digital repository program with limited resources / Abby Clobridge.
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TextSeries: Chandos information professional seriesPublisher: Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 239 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781780630458; 178063045XSubject(s): Digital libraries | Digital libraries -- Collection development | Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic information resourcesAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Building a digital repository program with limited resources.DDC classification: 025.00285 LOC classification: ZA4080 | .C56 2010ebOnline resources: ScienceDirect | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Whether you are just starting to create a digital repository or your institution already has a fully developed program, Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources provides strategies for building and maintaining a high-use, cohesive, and fiscally responsible repository with collections that showcase your institution. Author Abby Clobridge 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. She discusses the benefits of taking a holistic approach to creating a digital repository program rather than focusing only on individual collections. The book includes ready-to-use templates, worksheets, workshop exercises, and assessment tools, along with practical and easily adoptable case studies. It will be useful guidebook to building and sustaining digital repository programs.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.
Introduction -- Strategic planning -- Technical overview -- Staffing -- Metadata -- Collection building : project proposals, planning, and implementation -- Content recruitment and marketing -- Open access -- Sustainability -- Assessment -- Web 2.0 and digital repositories -- Appendix A : Introduction to metadata workshop -- Appendix B : The World War II poster project.
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