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Web archiving: Policy and practice
The UC San Diego Library has been collecting and providing access to archived web content since 2007. Initial collections were created on an ad hoc basis, with no highlevel plan to identify websites and content of interest, and there was little documentation of how early collection decisions were made. As time passed, the library’s web archiving efforts increased in scale, and outgrew this informal approach. Efforts were made to standardise web archiving processes and policies via collection request forms and standardised metadata, eventually culminating in the creation of a web archive collection development policy, and collection and quality control workflows and tracking. This article outlines the process of creating these tools, including establishing institutional needs and concerns, evaluating the wider landscape of web archiving policies and norms, and considering sustainable use of available resources. The article also discusses future areas of work to ensure that web content of research and historical interest is captured in full, preserved responsibly, and made accessible even when the original websites have changed or disappeared
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Getting Buzzed In the Library: Use of Restaurant-Style Pagers for Reserves Checkout in an Academic Library
In 2004, the Social Sciences & Humanities Library at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) implemented use of restaurant-style pagers for checking out Reserves Collection materials. Pagers are given to patrons when a desired reserves item is already in use. When the item is returned, the next patron is paged to the Circulation Desk to pick it up. The authors describe the UCSD Libraries’ process for initially implementing the pagers, explain the success they have seen with the pagers over the past four years, outline other libraries using similar pagers, and offer guidance for other institutions who might consider this innovative and user-friendly service enhancement
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Getting Buzzed In the Library: Use of Restaurant-Style Pagers for Reserves Checkout in an Academic Library
In 2004, the Social Sciences & Humanities Library at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) implemented use of restaurant-style pagers for checking out Reserves Collection materials. Pagers are given to patrons when a desired reserves item is already in use. When the item is returned, the next patron is paged to the Circulation Desk to pick it up. The authors describe the UCSD Libraries’ process for initially implementing the pagers, explain the success they have seen with the pagers over the past four years, outline other libraries using similar pagers, and offer guidance for other institutions who might consider this innovative and user-friendly service enhancement