Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 33 Issue 3

Outside in

Robert Fox

Understanding the user’s viewpoint is crucial so that any website be considered successful. Many organizations pay attention to their internal concerns first at the expense of the…

Excavating archival description: from collection to data level

Lesley L. Parilla, Rebecca Morgan, Christina Fidler

The purpose of this paper is to discuss three projects from three institutions that are dealing with challenges with natural sciences field documentation. Each is working to…

Legacies and lifecycles: digitizing oral histories at Rutgers University libraries

Krista White, Caryn Radick

This paper aims to explore two separate legacy oral history digitization projects at one institution and how the project teams approached the different issues and challenges these…

InDiPres: a statewide collaborative approach to digital preservation

Cinda Ann May

The purpose of this case study is to demonstrate how cultural memory organizations in Indiana used Library Services Technology Act grant funding as seed money to form a…

Digital preservation of law reviews: Two ways

Valeri Craigle

This paper will aim to explain two strategies for digital preservation of law reviews, informing law librarians of the options which might best suit their needs.

The importance of tools in the data lifecycle

Malcolm Wolski, Louise Howard, Joanna Richardson

This paper aims to outline principal implications for institutions, particularly universities, in supporting the increasingly complex tools which are used in the data lifecycle.

Digital archives from the ground up

Debora A. Person, Tawnya K. Plumb

For many years, the librarians at University of Wyoming’s George William Hopper Law Library fielded questions about the history of the law school and alumni. Unfortunately, no one…

Institutional repository research 2005-2015: a trend analysis using bibliometrics and text mining

Sujira Ammarukleart, Jeonghyun Kim

This paper aims to investigate the longitudinal trends of research in the area of institutional repositories (IR) using bibliometric and text-mining methods.