Research Collections and Support
Libraries are increasingly leveraging the raw materials of scholarship and knowledge formation by emphasizing the creation and curation of institutional research assets and outputs, including digitized special collections, research data, and researcher profiles. Our work informs current thinking about research collections and the emerging services that libraries are offering to support contemporary modes of scholarship. We are encouraging the development of new ways for libraries to build and provide these types of collections and deliver distinctive services. Our efforts are focused in the following three areas:
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Social Media and Archives: A Survey of Archive Users
16 August 2013
Bruce Washburn, Ellen Eckert, Merrilee Proffitt
This report details findings from a survey of users of archives to learn more about how researchers find out about systems like ArchiveGrid, and the role that social media, recommendations, reviews, and other forms of user-contributed annotation play in archival research. It will be of interest to those working with archival discovery services, or those investigating the utility of social media in discovery environments.
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Preservation Metadata (2nd Edition) DPT Technology Watch Report
3 May 2013
Brian Lavoie, Richard Gartner
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Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland
13 February 2013
Jackie M. Dooley, Rachel Beckett, Alison Cullingford, Katie Sambrook, Chris Sheppard, Sue Worrall
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Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: The SPOT Model for Risk Assessment
1 September 2012
Sally Vermaaten, Brian Lavoie, Priscilla Caplan
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2012 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues affecting Academic Libraries in Higher Education
1 June 2012
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Janice S. Lewis, Stephanie Alexander, Yunfei Du, Brad Eden, Barbara Petersohn, +
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Preserving Digital Heritage: The UNESCO Charter and Developments in the Netherlands
28 March 2012
Marco De Niet, Titia van der Werf, Vincent Wintermans