Digital Collections and Libraries and Technology
CNI Podcast: Perpetual Reinvention: An Interview with Director of MIT Libraries, Ann Wolpert
This seventeen minute podcast features an interview with Ann J. Wolpert, Director of Libraries at MIT. It was recorded at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2008 Task Force Meeting. As Director of Libraries, Ann J. Wolpert is responsible for the MIT Libraries and MIT Press. The MIT Libraries consist of five major collections, a number of smaller branch libraries in specialized subject areas, a fee-for-services group, and the Institute Archives. In addition, the development of DSpace, MIT's online institutional repository contains MIT Research in digital form, including preprints, technical reports, working papers, theses, conference papers, images, and more.
Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education
| Title: | Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education (ID: CSD5490) | | Author(s): | Ross Housewright (Ithaka) and Roger C. Schonfeld (Ithaka) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (08/18/2008) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Ithaka's 2006 survey of faculty members sought to determine their attitudes related to online resources, electronic archiving, teaching and learning and related subjects. This study affords the opportunity to develop trend analysis of many measurements collected in the 2003 and 2000 faculty surveys. As in the past, Ithaka developed a robust set of disciplinary and other demographic analyses that have allowed them to learn more about how best to serve the needs of different types of faculty members. Findings include;
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Attitudes towards the possibility of a transition away from print format, both for scholarly journals and monographs
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Perceptions of libraries and their value, including specific library functions, and how these perceptions are changing
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Preferences in research practices, including disciplinary differences and changes over time
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Attitudes towards archiving of both print and electronic resources
- Preferences that lead authors to choose among scholarly journals in which to publish their articles, as well as attitudes towards digital repositories
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Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications
| Title: | Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications (ID: CSD4745) | | Author(s): | Tyler Walters | | Source: | D-Lib Magazine | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | "Institutional repositories (IRs) are proliferating as they become an indispensable component for information and knowledge sharing in the scholarly world [1]. As their numbers increase worldwide, a new phase of IR development is emerging. Moving beyond their initial functions, IRs no longer serve solely as a place to store, organize, and access content. With rapidly changing technologies, users now desire and expect transportable content that can be utilized within various digital environments and reused in multiple formats, and they need forums for the rapid exchange of ideas with both on-campus and external communities. In response, universities and the libraries hosting IRs are looking for ways to weave their repositories into the "information fabric" of their campuses' academic and business processes and catalyze changes in scholarly communications more broadly." | | View this resource: | |
Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google
| Title: | Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google (ID: CSD4642) | | Author(s): | Paul N. Courant (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The prospect of ubiquitous digitization will not change the fundamental relationships among scholarship, academic libraries, and publication. Collaboration across time and space, which is a principal mechanism of scholarship, ought to be enhanced. Reforms in copyright law will be required if the promise of digitization is to be realized; absent such reform, there is a serious risk that much academically valuable material will become invisible and unused. Ubiquitous digitization will change radically the economics that have supported university–based collections of published material. Scholars and scholarly institutions (including libraries and university presses) must assert vigorously claims of fair use and openness. | | View this resource: | |
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