CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

Academic Freedom and Institutional Commitment: Archival Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Rob Spindler
University Archivist and Head, Department of Archives and Manuscripts
Arizona State University

This session will provide a review of the work and recommendations of the Arizona State University Task Force on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Topics to be addressed include: student submission and workflow processes and digital preservation for text and multimedia. Discussion will focus on costs, methods, and institutional commitment to digital preservation.

Handouts:
Academic Freedom and Institutional Commitment (MS Word document)
Workflow Diagram (MS Word document)
Migration Flow Chart (MS Word document)

PowerPoint Presentation:
Archival Considerations for ETD’s

 

Academic Data Research Services Alliance: Bridging the Gap between Data and Discovery

Denise Stephens
Associate University Librarian for Public Services
Syracuse University

Beth Forrest Warner
Director, Digital Library Initiatives
University of Kansas

Numeric and spatial data is created, purchased, and stored by various units in universities today. Access and resource efficiencies are not possible without implementing an infrastructure for resource identification and sharing. To facilitate the location, access, and analysis of numeric and spatial data, the University of Kansas has formed the Academic Data Research Services Alliance (ADRSA). ADRSA is a cross-division collaboration of KU units with a shared interest in access to quality data, computation, education, and consulting resources. Coordinated as a project within the KU Digital Library Initiatives (DLI) program, ADRSA is a cooperative venture involving the Libraries, Academic Computing Services (ACS), and the Policy Research Institute (PRI), which leverages expertise in content and computational analysis to better serve the University. KUís approach to data services provides a model that engages a broad campus community efficiently and results in a service that provides improved access and service to clients.

Web Links:
University of Kansas Academic Data Research Services Alliance

The Afterlives of Courses on the Network: Information Management Issues for Learning Management Systems

Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

The large-scale deployment of learning management systems (LMS) throughout higher education in recent years raises far-reaching questions that have yet to be defined or addressed in a systematic way. Key questions include: 1) How long does a class site remain a living document? 2) What is included in the “record” of a class? 3) How long is this record kept? and 4) Who has access to this record, and under what circumstances? This session, based on a recent paper for the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), will explore these questions and their complex implications for institutional policies–from intellectual property rights to records management to documentation of scholarship.

The full text of the ECAR paper is available in

PDF format: Adobe Acrobat 5.0

and Adobe Acrobat 4.0

or in Word format

Building a Large Digital Collection for Remote Use

Barbara Taranto
Director, Digital Library Program
The New York Public Library, Research Libraries

As libraries and cultural institutions consolidate and continue to increase their digital activities and build new digital collections, the issues of scale and sustainability come to the fore. The “Image Gate” Project at the New York Public Library provides an excellent test bed for evaluating and shaping collection development and public service policy in the near future. This session will provide a brief overview of the project to date and will present the thinking that provides the background for the public interface.

Digital Collection Cross-Server Sharing: A New Integrated Model and Technology for Building and Accessing Digital Libraries at Multiple Locations in Utah

Kenning Arlitsch
Head of Digital Technologies
University of Utah

Greg Zick
President
DiMeMa, Inc.

The Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) comprises the 15 college and university libraries in the state of Utah. Earlier this year the UALC funded a plan to create the Mountain West Digital Library. The goal of the Library is to put unique materials online in an integrated seamless manner that will provide a single point of access to these geographically distributed collections. Four centers established at the largest universities have a mandate to create digital collections and support the efforts of smaller libraries, museums, and historical societies in their geographical areas. The centers provide fee-based scanning, then return digital files to the client institutions, which add metadata and upload the files to one of the four centers’ CONTENTdm servers.

The challenge was to develop a system that allowed three layers of participation: 1) collection builders, 2) server providers, and 3) users searching multiple sites. To accomplish this UALC worked with the CONTENTdm software suite made by DiMeMa, Inc. With cooperation from the state library in the administration of LSTA funds toward this effort, a sustainable model of statewide digital library development is well underway.

Web Links:
Mountain West Digital Library
Utah Academic Library Consortium

Handout:
The Mountain West Digital Library
(MS Word document)

PowerPoint Presentation:
The Mountain West Digital Library

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