http://hdl.handle.net/2144/917 Sat, 25 May 2013 06:47:40 GMT 2013-05-25T06:47:40Z http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1391 Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment Malpas, Constance A report of key findings of the Cloud Library project, an effort jointly designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University's Elmer Bobst Library, and the Research Collections Access & Preservation (ReCAP) consortium, with support from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of low-use print books held in academic libraries to shared service providers, including large-scale print and digital repositories. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1391 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1351 A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation Skinner, Katherine; Schultz, Matt This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways."--P. [4] of cover Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1351 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2144/919 Institutional Repositories, Policies, and Disruption Lindahl, David; Bell, Suzanne; Gibbons, Susan; Foster, Nancy Fried For many librarians, institutional repositories (IRs) promised significant change for academic libraries. We envisioned enlarging collection development scope to include locally produced scholarship and an expansion of library services to embrace scholarly publication and distribution. However, at the University of Rochester, as at many other institutions, this transformational technology was introduced in the conservative, controlled manner associated with stereotypical librarian culture, and so these expected changes never materialized. In this case study, we focus on the creation of our institutional repository (a potentially disruptive technology) and how its success was hampered by our organizational culture, manifested as a lengthy and complicated set of policies. In the following pages, we briefly describe our repository project, talk about our original policies, look at the ways those policies impeded our project, and discuss the disruption of those policies and the benefits in user uptake that resulted. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2144/919 2007-04-02T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2144/918 DSpace Manual: Software version 1.5 DSpace Foundation DSpace is an open source software platform that enables organizations to: - Capture and describe digital material using a submission workflow module, or a variety of programmatic ingest options - Distribute an organization's digital assets over the web through a search and retrieval system - Preserve digital assets over the long term This system documentation includes a functional overview of the system, which is a good introduction to the capabilities of the system, and should be readable by nontechnical personnel. Everyone should read this section first because it introduces some terminology used throughout the rest of the documentation. For people actually running a DSpace service, there is an installation guide, and sections on configuration and the directory structure. Note that as of DSpace 1.2, the administration user interface guide is now on-line help available from within the DSpace system. Finally, for those interested in the details of how DSpace works, and those potentially interested in modifying the code for their own purposes, there is a detailed architecture and design section. Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2144/918 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z