| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Chandos information professional series |
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Chandos information professional series.
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| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Digital libraries.
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Digital libraries -- Collection development.
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Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic information resources.
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Libraries, Digital |
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Bibliothèques virtuelles. |
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Bibliothèques virtuelles -- Développement des collections. |
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Bibliothèques -- Fonds spéciaux -- Sources d'information électroniques. |
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Digital libraries |
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Digital libraries -- Collection development |
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Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic information resources |
| In: |
Chandos Publishing Online |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Clobridge, Abby. Building a digital repository program with limited resources. Oxford, [England] : Chandos Pub., 2010 184334596X (DLC) 2010674062 (OCoLC)665042800 |
| ISBN |
9781780630458 (electronic bk.) |
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178063045X (electronic bk.) |
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