Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, January 10, 2002

http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues25.html#faculty

Faculty: Important Partners in Preservation Strategies
by Abby Smith

THE ROLE OF library users in developing collections and in influencing preservation decisions has long been discussed, and at times even contested, among librarians and scholars. Libraries originated in times when scholars were their own librarians, and librarians inevitably scholars, but since World War II that has been the exception, not the rule. Now we hear calls for libraries and faculty members to work together in planning for preservation, for remote storage, and for the creation of digital surrogates to serve both preservation and access. How would such collaboration work?...

 



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