Hunter R. Rawlings III. “What Is College For? The Future of Higher Education,” Closing plenary given at Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2012 Membership Meeting (Dec 11, 2012).
MOOCs, Mobility, and Changing Scholarly Practice: CNI’s Perspective on 2012 and 2013
Clifford Lynch. “MOOCs, Mobility, and Changing Scholarly Practice: CNI’s Perspective on 2012 and 2013,” Opening plenary given at Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2012 Membership Meeting (Dec 10, 2012).
Academic Library as Makerspace: 3D Printing and Knowledge Creation
Kathlin Ray
Dean, University Libraries and Teaching & Learning Technologies
University of Nevada, Reno
As part of an ongoing plan to transform an underutilized science and engineering library into a lively incubator for student-faculty collaboration and innovation, staff at the University of Nevada, Reno decided to launch a bold initiative: build a 3D scanning and printing “makerspace” and make it available to the entire campus. The service has been wildly successful with 3D printers running 24 hours a day. Furthermore, positioning the library as a place that facilitates knowledge creation beyond text based tools and resources has been a game changer. Students are highly motivated to learn new skills in order to take advantage of new technologies (Lynda.com gets heavy use); they experiment and iterate quickly to perfect their designs. Even better, students from engineering are now rubbing elbows with people from fields such as biology, computer science, geology, and even art. Like the printing press and the personal computer, 3-D printers have been hailed as a revolutionary device that will ultimately transform the way the world operates.
Academic Preservation Trust
Robin Ruggaber
Director, Online Library Environment
University of Virginia
Michele Kimpton
Chief Executive Officer
DuraSpace
Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) is a consortium of academic institutions committed to the creation and management of academic and research content for multiple institutions. As a member of APTrust, the University of Virginia in partnership with DuraSpace is implementing a cloud based repository service to aggregate curated content from consortium institutions upon which rich access services may be built. The implementation will further provide long term preservation for selected content through the implementation of a repository within the Digital Preservation Network (DPN).
The aggregate repository is being implemented to collect many forms of content, offer utility to support administrative and simple access, augment individual institution preservation strategies as well as provide a firm foundation for exploring future access services. Consortium members believe they can achieve these goals more fully together than they can alone.
Auditing Distributed Preservation Networks
Micah Altman
Director of Research, Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This presentation summarizes the lessons learned from trial audits of a several production distributed digital preservation networks. These audits were conducted using the open source SafeArchive system, which enables automated auditing of a selection of TRAC criteria related to replication and storage. An analysis of the trial audits demonstrates both the complexities of auditing modern replicated storage networks, and reveals common gaps between archival policy and practice. Recommendations for closing these gaps are discussed, as are extensions that have been added to the SafeArchive system to mitigate risks in distributed digital preservation (DDP).
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