There are many commonalities across institutions in regard to podcasts and their respective management and policies. It does not matter if you were at the forefront of the technology or were reserved in your approach to implementing or utilizing this technology on your campus. Come listen to a joint presentation by Duke University and Indiana University highlighting both ends of this spectrum from central IT perspectives. The presenters will be discussing the “What’s, How’s, and Where’s” of this subject, and exploring the common issues faced by institutions of higher education. Ample discussion time will be alloted.

http://www.duke.edu/ddi/itunes/

Examples of Indiana Campus and School sites:
http://www.iupui.edu/~iuihome/podcasts
http://www.music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive
http://soundmedicine.iu.edu
http://www.law.indiana.edu/media/feed_help.shtml
http://www.indiana.edu/~wfiu/index.html
http://www.indiana.edu/~wfiu/podcasts/amos_pod.php
http://www.indiana.edu/~tandl/podcast.php
http://www.iub.edu/~icy/podcast/index.html

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All valuable data associated with publications need to be preserved, including electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). These data need to be captured and preserved in order to permit replication and secondary analysis. While ETDs help solve the problem of availability that traditional theses and dissertations presented, institutions are facing a number of complex issues and challenges in making these ETDs available. In the social sciences, as in other fields of research, source materials (including data) may not be under control of the author, or may be limited by a variety of intellectual property rights issues. A series of questions arise: How should all kinds of research materials used in theses and dissertations be made available for replication? What does replication mean? Is the program code more valuable than the raw data and should it be included in the ETD? What are the rules for data deposit and should these extend to the source material regardless of discipline? What are the curation tasks for data and can or should institutions carry these out on their own? These challenges call for participation and collaboration beyond traditional institutional roles. In this session, questions such as these will be discussed and ideas for next steps to advance the long-term vision of the promise of ETDs.

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PowerPoint Presentation

For the past several years, Stanford has been engaged in developing the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR), a set of general purpose, back-office, preservation services for the university’s and academia’s diverse streams of content. The SDR is now in production, and ramping up its capacity to be able to ingest a sustained rate of 1 TB of content a day. Central to the SDR’s design are three tenets: First, preservation is its primary purpose, with access being a secondary consideration. Second, it must serve as generic preservation infrastructure, equally capable of preserving content ranging from geospatial data (collected as part of Stanford’s efforts in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s National Geospatial Digital Archive project), to millions of Google-digitized books, from formally curated digital library collections, to faculty-generated datasets and documents submitted to the SDR cum institutional repository. Third and finally, that its architecture, individual components, and ongoing operations be both serviceable and adaptable, allowing for steady evolution and enhancements over time without compromising progress in the present.

This project briefing will provide a case study of Stanford’s experiences in going from early prototypes to a production repository. In addition to the SDR’s programmatic requirements, overall design, and detailed technical architecture, trials (and errors) in technology design, metadata schema, operational constraints, security concerns, staffing and organizational considerations, and hardware (storage and server) platforms will be discussed.

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This session presents a strategy for academic libraries for the next 20 years. The strategy components are:
1) Complete the migration from print to electronic collections
2) Retire legacy print collections
3) Redevelop the library space
4) Reposition library and information tools, resources, and expertise
5) Migrate the focus of collections from purchasing materials to curating content

The interactions of the strategy components and organizational issues for implementation will be explored in this session.

http://hdl.handle.net/1805/665

“Technology” is a recurring issue in the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) membership surveys and figures prominently in the ACRL strategic plan. To identify how to best address technology issues, ACRL convened an invitational summit of librarians, faculty, administrators, and vendors to explore how technologies, and the changing climate for teaching, learning, and scholarship, will likely recast the roles, responsibilities, and resources of academic librarians and libraries. This conversation produced an essay that captured the summit’s conversation, and suggested a reconfigured portfolio for librarians and important actions for ACRL. Read the essay and come prepared to share your ideas about the future roles of librarians and how ACRL can best support the profession in these roles.

www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/futureofacademiclibrariesandhighereducation/changingroles.htm