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WHAT CHANGES WITH DIGITAL CONTENT? ANNE R. KENNEY

WHAT CHANGES WITH DIGITAL CONTENT? ANNE R. KENNEY. An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age. ARL CNI Forum , Oct. 16, 2009. Three Key Issues. Digitizing Special Collections.

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WHAT CHANGES WITH DIGITAL CONTENT? ANNE R. KENNEY

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  1. WHAT CHANGES WITH DIGITAL CONTENT?ANNE R. KENNEY An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age. ARL CNI Forum , Oct. 16, 2009

  2. Three Key Issues

  3. Digitizing Special Collections “…large-scale digitization is an exciting option that will almost certainly become a fact of life for a significant number of special collections librarians and archivists in the near future. ” Special Collections in ARL Libraries Discussion Report

  4. Issues to Consider in Mass Digitization

  5. Mass Digitization as a Collective Effort?

  6. I would be willing to commit my institution to making public the content of publisher agreements, including pricing, special arrangements, and other privileges. Clicker Responses to Question at May 2009 ARL Panel

  7. I am willing to commit my institution to forego one-on-one arrangements with commercial entities around digitization of special collections materials in favor of collective arrangements involving multiple research libraries. Clicker Responses to Question at May 2009 ARL Panel

  8. 9 Principles for Commercial Partnerships

  9. 9 Principles for Commercial Partnerships

  10. Building Digital Communities • Building community around content • Building content around community • Providing a home for digital creators

  11. Building Community Around Content Content + Motivated Community = Powerful Collaboration

  12. Harnessing the Community

  13. Building Content around Community

  14. Building Content around Events

  15. Building Communities for Creators New Media Digital interfaces and artistic experimentation by international, independent artists.

  16. Building Communities for Creators “This listserv represents the extensive culture of online writing that floods the internet with thoughtful conceptual interaction to produce collective writing. This and other examples of open visual and written databases are transforming the web.” Timothy Murray, Director Society for the Humanities, Cornell University

  17. A Safe Harbor • “I promise I’m not afraid of prolonged power cuts.” (India) • “Between 1:00am and 4:00am, I will not delete files I think I won’t need again.” (Europe) • “I’m glad hardly any institutions really bothered to collect internet art—it will make it so much more valuable in the future.” (Australia)

  18. If you build it, will they come? Will they stay?

  19. Serving Users “New York Public Library is the Library of the unaffiliated.” Josh Greenberg, NYPL

  20. Serving Users

  21. “My god... so horrible. i came here cuz my favorite band wrote a song on it, and I remember seeing about the fire on tv, but... I had no idea. Some of them had the same name as me, and that 11 year old girl... That’s two years younger than me. if i had been alive, I could have been one of those girls.”— AM, PA   12 May 2006

  22. There are still sweatshops in NYC. One needs only to look out of the Manhattan bound elevated D train and into the windows of buildings where young Asian women slave for meager wages. — JC, Broad Channel NY     28 Aug 2009

  23. “For those of you working with MOA Cornell could use please, please, please, contact Cornell and demand its restoration! This is really too important to take sitting down.” --disgruntled power user

  24. Special Collections in the 21st Century

  25. “It must rock to be a librarian in this age.”

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