HathiTrust and Local Digital Stewardship: A Case Study in How Massive Digital Libraries Affect Local Digital Resources Decisions

Autor: Heidi Winkler, Joy Perrin
Rok vydání: 2017
Zdroj: International Journal of Librarianship.
ISSN: 2474-3542
DOI: 10.23974/ijol.0.vol0.0.30
Popis: This article reviews the influence that massive digital libraries like the HathiTrust DigitalLibrary can have on local, smaller institutions’ digitization, preservation, and curationprograms. The history of HathiTrust’s digital preservation efforts as a Trusted Repository isreviewed. A case study is presented showing how one academic library made difficult digitalstewardship decisions in a modern world of globally federated preservation initiatives. Theauthors introduce the concept of deselection as part of the digital curation process and discusshow digital collection administrators can refine their local digital preservation efforts to betterreflect the realities of constrained human and financial resources.
Databáze: OpenAIRE