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:
Publications
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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
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Managing fixity and fluidity in data repositories
10 February 2012