Calamity and Resiliency: Reflections on the Past Two Years and Library Responses

This editorial introduces the second issue of Library Diversity and Residency Studies. It discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and other recent phenomena, and how libraries can help support efforts to achieve resiliency in society. It also discusses future plans for the journal and invites contributions

ETD Plus: When Non-traditional is the New Normal, What\u27s the Norm for ETD Programs?

The 2014-2017 ETDplus project brought together a diverse range of national stakeholders in the ETD curation process (professors, libraries, and service providers) to improve ETD policies and practices around research data and complex digital object management. The project research pivoted on the question “How will institutions ensure the longevity and availability of ETD research data and complex digital objects (e.g., software, multimedia files) that comprise an integral component of student theses and dissertations?” The research conducted in the course of the project revealed many emerging trends regarding ETDs, illuminating a significantly changed landscape of ETD curation needs in the 21st century. This presentation will review project findings and discuss future directions for ETD programs

Copyright, Digital Media, and Libraries

Article offering a brief bibliography on the subject of copyright and digital media in the context of libraries

The Problematic Future of Research Data Management: Challenges, Opportunities and Emerging Patterns Identified by the DataRes Project

This paper describes findings and projections from a project that has examined emerging policies and practices in the United States regarding the long-term institutional management of research data. The DataRes project at the University of North Texas (UNT) studied institutional transitions taking place during 2011-2012 in response to new mandates from U.S. governmental funding agencies requiring research data management plans to be submitted with grant proposals. Additional synergistic findings from another UNT project, termed iCAMP, will also be reported briefly.This paper will build on these data analysis activities to discuss conclusions and prospects for likely developments within coming years based on the trends surfaced in this work. Several of these conclusions and prospects are surprising, representing both opportunities and troubling challenges, for not only the library profession but the academic research community as a whole

The Challenge of Multimedia Networking

There is no question that computer applications such as word processing, electronic mail, and desktop publishing have changed the way people work. These computer applications have enhanced users' capacity for communication and have improved their productivity. The success of these applications has prompted both vendors and researchers to continue to seek new ways to further advance the information technology revolution. Enter the latest innovation: networked multimedia system

The DataRes Project

Paper presented at the 8th International Digital Curation Conference on the problematic future of research data management

Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative

This paper discusses the importance of a particular approach to building and sustaining digital content preservation infrastructures for cultural memory organizations (CMOs), namely distributed approaches that are cooperatively maintained by CMOs (rather than centralized approaches managed by agencies external to CMOs), and why this approach may fill a gap in capabilities for those CMOs actively digitizing historical and cultural content (rather than scientific data). Initial findings are presented from an early organizational effort (the MetaArchive Cooperative) that seeks to fill this gap for CMOs. The paper situates these claims in the larger context of selected exemplars of DP efforts in both the United States and the United Kingdom that are seeking to develop effective DP models in an attempt to recognize those organizational aspects (such as the governmental frameworks, cultural backgrounds, and other differences in emphasis) that are UK and US-specific

Hypermedia, Interactive Multimedia, and Virtual Realities

Article discussing hypermedia, interactive multimedia, and virtual realities

Public-Access Computer Systems and the Internet

Recursive Reviews is a new column that will identify and briefly describe articles that deal with public-access computer systems (PACS) and related topics in both library and computer science literature. The "recursive" in the name of the column emphasizes the idea that the discussion of information technology in libraries changes the underlying precepts of the discussion. The dialogue concerning uses of library technology redefines itself in this way, and can therefore be seen as recursive. Enough introduction, let's go on to the reviews

The Funder\u27s Point of View

This panel from the World Data System's 2023 Repository Sustainability Summit featured Ishwar Chandramouliswaran (NIH), Dr. Cerese Albers (NASA), Dr. Martin Halbert (NSF), Dr. Michael Nelson (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), and Dr. Michael Cooke (DOE), and was moderated by Dr. David Castle (University of Victoria)