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An Overview of Emulation as a Preservation Method
Emulation–the use of modern computer systems to run historical software–is a growing practice within libraries, archives, museums, and galleries that is essential to conserving…
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Creating Ethical Temporary Positions in Archives: Best Practices and Case Studies
Creating Ethical Temporary Positions in Archives reflects on the “hidden collections” era and the impact of the resulting proliferation in grant-funded temporary positions…
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The Story of the Modern Seed Library: A Historical Analysis of Seed Saving, Its Evolution Through the Ages, and Its Current Impact on Community, Culture, and Connection
This study explores the relationship between humans and seeds, from the first agricultural societies 12,000 years ago to the modern era of centralized agribusiness corporations. Authors Jen…
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Profiles in Data and Software Curation
This four-part series highlights the careers and achievements of former CLIR data and software curation fellows. In 2022, Inna Kouper—a 2012-2014 CLIR data curation fellow herself&mda…
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Annual Report: 2023-2024
Annual Report for the Council on Library and Information Resources, 2023-2024
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Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration
This collection of brief essays challenges long-held principles of archival practice by addressing the carceral underpinnings of the cultural professions. Contributors explore how complicit…
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Inclusive Metadata Toolkit
Created by the inclusive metadata task force of the DLF Cultural Assessment Working Group (CAWG), the Inclusive Metadata Toolkit serves as a centralized guide to the range of inclusive meta…
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Panel and open discussion: New Archival Approaches to the History and Memory of Atlantic World Slavery
With a focus on the history and memory of Atlantic world slavery, this virtual roundtable explores new approaches to the archive. Panelists will talk about the research that went into their…
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Information resources: Has the digital revolution made the world of global academic research bigger or smaller? RILM: A case study in the field of music
My 2003 CLIR report addressed the questions that the digital revolution raises at a time when use of the Internet was surging. My subsequent work as an editor of RILM (Répertoire Int…
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Teaching Physical Archival Research in the Digital Age
Over the past five years I have had the opportunity to advise dozens of short archival research projects using the collection of the Musiksammlung at the Österreichische Nationalbiblio…
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Serendipity in and beyond the Archive
Most scholars can point to a paper they never intended to write–one that resulted from a serendipitous “find” in an archive during research for something else entirely.&nb…
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Public Libraries, Communities, and Technology: Twelve Case Studies
The advisory committee overseeing the studies documented in this report looked for the following: models for emulation, examples of both large and small libraries, projects that have been i…
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Why Digitize?
This paper is a response to discussions of digitization at meetings of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA). NHA asked the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to evaluate…
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Library Systems: Current Developments and Future Directions
This report was commissioned in response to concerns expressed about the gap between institutional digital library initiatives and the products offered by library systems vendors. The study…
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Learning from and Making Use of Digitized Hidden Collections: Proceedings from the 2022 Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium, October 12-13, 2022
This publication contains the keynote address and selected presentations from the 2022 Digitizing Hidden Collections (DHC) Symposium, a capstone event for the Digitizing Hidden Special Coll…
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Digits and Dreams: Scholarship and computing in the age of abundance
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Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines: A Guide by the Digital Accessibility Working Group
The Digital Library Federation developed this document to help Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) institutions work to adopt accessibility best practices in their digital li…
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The Chinese Archive: A Pocket Manual
"The Chinese Archive: A Pocket Manual" by co-authors, Yasser Ali Nasser and Matthew Wong Foreman is a pioneering guide that illuminates the current archival crisis in the People&r…
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EVERGREEN Bringing Information Resources to Rural China
This report contains a survey undertaken in 2003 by CLIR to study the state of audio recordings in academic libraries. One purpose of the survey was to inform decision makers in those libra…
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Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings under State Law and Its Impact on Use by Nonprofit Institutions: A 10-State Analysis
Prepared by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Washington College of Law, American University Under the supervision of Peter Jaszi with the assistance of Nick Lewi…
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Keepers of Our Digital Future
In September 2015, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) a grant to investigate the early impacts of the Nation…
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Capacity Assessment of Latin American and Caribbean Partners: Report of Symposium and Recommendations
In April 2020, the authors, CLIR fellows in the second cohort of Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, virtually convened Capacity Assessment of Latin American and Caribbe…
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Creating Access to HBCU Library Alliance Archives: Needs, Capacity, and Technical Planning
This study explores the common barriers and shared visions for creating access to archival collections held by libraries at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). One of few…
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Remotely Useful: Practical Lessons for Northern Community Archiving
Remotely Useful pioneers a first-of-its-kind guide, bridging the gap between the archival field and the day-to-day concerns of preserving cultural and community records in the North--encomp…
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CLIR Fellowships in Data Curation: Cultivating Resilient Networks of Support for New Scholars
Between 2019 and 2022, Liz Bishoff of The Bishoff Group and Thomas F. R. Clareson, senior consultant for Lyrasis, conducted a series of in-depth interviews, surveys, and focus groups with p…
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Adventure, Inquiry, Discovery: CLIR-Mellon Fellows and the Archives
In this collection of short essays, former recipients of the CLIR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources reflect on the diversity of their experience. From 2002 an…
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A Green New Deal for Archives
Archivists preserve the records of the past for the future through their stewardship of archives. As the world moves toward a future that looks increasingly uncertain, frightening, and chao…
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Annual Report, 2021-2022
Annual Report for 2021-2022 for the Council on Library and Information Resources
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The Foundations of Discovery: A Report on the Assessment of the Impacts of the Cataloging Hidden Collections Program, 2008–2019
From 2008 to 2014, CLIR administered the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program, which granted funds to catalog “hidden” collections of high scholarly value.…
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Reclaiming the Research Library: The Founding of the Council on Library Resources
A brief history on the development of CLR.
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Commission on Preservation and Access Formed
Announcement on the creation of Commission on Preservation and Access.
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Library Schools in Research Universities
Haas reflects on conclusions from CLR’s Advisory Committee on Professional Education, formed the previous year to explore the problems of and prospects for the professional education…
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Dimension and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment
The backdrop for this study is that the Digital Library Federation (DLF) has become increasingly concerned by the absence of reliable information with which to document and explain changing…
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Report of the Making of America II DTD DLF Workshop
The workshop opened with comments by J. McDonough (NYU) regarding the origins and purpose of the workshop. University research libraries that have begun to create digital collections have e…
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AIC Brochure
The AIC is led by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) with support from the College Art Association (CAA). Funded to July 2000 by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the DLF, and with cont…
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Digital Certificate Infrastructure: Frequently Asked Questions
Providing secure, low cost, and easy access to distributed instructional and research resources is a growing problem for campus library and information technology professionals. This FAQ pr…
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Evaluating Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Heritage Grantmaking: CLIR's Amplifying Unheard Voices Program
This report summarizes a yearlong program assessment of “Amplifying Unheard Voices,” a major revision of CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Collections grant program. The revision s…
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Accelerated Aging of Polyester-Based Legacy Audio Magnetic Tape Stock
This study reports on new research into the longevity of polyester-based magnetic audio tapes. Open-reel test tapes produced 10 to 20 years ago were subjected to a variety of accelerated te…
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3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Practices and Trends
This volume, comprising eight chapters from experts in a variety of fields, examines the use of three-dimensional (3D) and virtual reality (VR) technologies in research and teaching, and th…
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The Future of Email Archives
Email is an increasingly important part of the historical record, yet it is particularly difficult to preserve, putting future access to this vast resource at risk. The Future of…
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A Splendid Torch: Learning and Teaching in Today's Academic Libraries
Six essays, written collaboratively by current and former CLIR postdoctoral fellows, explore the contributions that today’s academic libraries—as providers of resources, profess…
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National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education: An Assessment
The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) was formed in 2001 to “stimulate collaboration between selected liberal arts colleges and to act as a catalyst for t…
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The Open Data Imperative: How the Cultural Heritage Community Can Address the Federal Mandate
New U.S. government requirements for exposing and managing federally funded research data add urgency to the call for curating data that can be used, reused, and exploited by future generat…
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Terra Cognita: Graduate Students in the Archives, A Retrospective on the CLIR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources
Terra Cognita surveys the current landscape of archival research and the experiences of emerging scholars seeking to navigate it. Drawing on data from CLIR’s Mellon Fellows…
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Innovation, Collaboration and Models
This volume documents the capstone event to the seven-year Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program , funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The two-day symposiu…
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Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective
This report sheds light on the expertise required to support a robust and sustainable digital scholarship (DS) program. It focuses first on defining and describing the key domain knowledge,…
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The Process of Discovery: The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Future of the Academy
This volume celebrates the first decade of CLIR’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program by bringing together 20 past and present CLIR postdoctoral fellows to share their thoughts on their e…
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The Once and Future Publishing Library
The report explores the revitalization of library publishing and its possible future, and examines elements that influence the success and sustainability of library publishing initiatives.…
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ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation
Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. Copublished by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, the Council on Library…
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The Center of Excellence Model for Information Services
In 2013, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a group of librarians from ARL’s Research Library Leadership Fellows program a planning grant to examine the center of excellence (CoE…
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The Changing Landscape of Library and Information Services: What Presidents, Provosts, and Finance Officers Need to Know
Rapidly evolving digital technologies and services are profoundly influencing the financial model supporting many colleges and universities. Institutions that rely solely on traditional sol…
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Participatory Design in Academic Libraries: New Reports and Findings
This report looks at how staff at eight academic institutions gained new insight about how students and faculty use their libraries, and how the staff are using these findings to improve li…
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Research Data Management Principles, Practices, and Prospects
This report examines how research institutions are responding to data management requirements of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies.…
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The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto
On May 22, 2012 at the University of North Texas, a group of technologists and librarians, scholars and researchers, university administrators, and other stakeholders gathered to discuss an…
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Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories
This report offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well-being of born-digital materials transferred from donors to archival repositories. The report surveys the…
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The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912–1929
Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress. The era of the American silent feature film lasted from 1912 until 1929. During that time, filmm…
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Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access
This report describes the current approaches of 11 art museums in the United States and the United Kingdom to the use of images of works of art that are in their collections and are in the…
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The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan
Sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board, Library of Congress. This plan was written by Brenda Nelson-Strauss, Alan Gevinson, and Sam Brylawski, under the direction of P…
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Participatory Design in Academic Libraries: Methods, Findings, and Implementations
Participatory design is an approach to building spaces, services, and tools where the people who will use them participate centrally in coming up with concepts and then designing the actual…
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The Problem of Data
Jahnke and Asher explore workflows and methodologies at a variety of academic data curation sites, and Keralis delves into the academic milieu of library and information schools that offer…
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Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries
This study examines the core infrastructure elements of systems that manage large quantities of digital materials that one would think of as a digital library. An examination of the infrast…
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Linked Data for Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Survey and Workshop Report
In June 2011, Stanford University hosted a group of librarians and technologists to examine issues and challenges surrounding the use of linked data for library applications. This report su…
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One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
This report culminates two years of work by CLIR staff involving extensive interviews and site visits with scholars engaged in international research collaborations involving computational…
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"Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists
The author provides a summative and recent overview of the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical Greece, Rome, and the ancient Middle and Near East, and ge…
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Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections
While the purview of digital forensics was once specialized to fields of law enforcement, computer security, and national defense, the increasing ubiquity of computers and electronic device…
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The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age
This is the first comprehensive, national-level study of the state of sound recording preservation ever conducted in the U.S. The authors, Rob Bamberger and Sam Brylawski, have produced a s…
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The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship
The Idea of Order explores the transition from an analog to a digital environment for knowledge access, preservation, and reconstitution, and the implications of this transition for m…
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Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship
As part of its ongoing programs in digital scholarship and the cyberinfrastructure to support teaching, learning and research, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in coo…
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Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives
This report addresses the question of what libraries and archives are legally empowered to do to preserve and make accessible for research their holdings of unpublished pre-1972 sound recor…
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A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States
In preparation for the 2008 Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI 6) focused on humanities research centers, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) commissioned a survey…
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No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century
How should we be rethinking the research library in a swiftly changing information landscape? In February 2008, CLIR convened 25 leading librarians, publishers, faculty members, and informa…
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Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper
The digitization of millions of books under programs such as Google Book Search and Microsoft Live Search Books is dramatically expanding our ability to search and find information. The aim…
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Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States
In this report, the authors describe results of a nationwide census of institutional repositories in U.S. academic institutions. The census is one of several activities of the MIRACLE Proje…
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Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies
The proliferation of electronic information and tools has changed the way that readers and researchers do their work. It has also changed the way library staff members provide materials and…
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E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape
This report summarizes a review of 12 e-journal archiving programs from the perspective of concerns expressed by directors of academic libraries in North America. It uses a methodology comp…
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Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes
This report investigates procedures to reformat sound on analog carriers to digital media or files. It summarizes discussions and recommendations emerging from a meeting of leading audio pr…
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Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha: Bringing Information Technology to Rural Bangladesh by Boat
The 2005 recipient of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award overcame the challenge that the ecosystem of Bangladesh poses and found a way to deliver information t…
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Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives
This report addresses the question of what libraries and archives are legally empowered to do to preserve and make accessible for research their holdings of pre-1972 commercial recordings,…
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Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books
What are the stumbling blocks to digitization? Is copyright law a major barrier? Is it easier to negotiate with some types of publishers than with others? To what extent does the age of the…
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Survey of Reissues of U.S. Recordings
The purpose of this study was to determine the legal accessibility of sound recordings published in the United States. The survey was designed to quantify the degree to which rights holders…
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A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature
This report will be useful to anyone interested in the current state of online American literature resources. Its purpose is twofold: to offer a sampling of the types of digital resources c…
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Århus Public Libraries: Embracing Diversity, Empowering Citizens in Denmark
The Århus Public Libraries in Denmark received the 2004 Bill & Melinda Gates Access to Learning Award. This report focuses on the progress the Libraries have made in reaching out…
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Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space
This report contains a survey undertaken in 2003 by CLIR to study the state of audio recordings in academic libraries. One purpose of the survey was to inform decision makers in those libra…
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Survey of the State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries
This report contains a survey undertaken in 2003 by CLIR to study the state of audio recordings in academic libraries. One purpose of the survey was to inform decision makers in those libra…
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The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats
Many academic and research libraries are in the midst of what may ultimately be a major transition for various parts of their collections-a shift from print to electronic format. Libraries…
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Access in the Future Tense
CLIR organized a conference in May 2003 to examine the key factors shaping the information environment in which libraries operate and how these factors will affect stewardship of the cultur…
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E-Powering the People: South Africa's Smart Cape Access Project
In July 2002, city officials in Cape Town, South Africa, launched the Smart Cape Access Project to provide free Internet access in six public libraries in disadvantaged areas across the cit…
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Business Planning for Cultural Heritage Institutions. A Framework and Resource Guide to Assist Cultural Heritage Institutions with Business Planning for Sustainability of Digital Asset Management Programs
This document presents a framework and resource guide to help cultural heritage institutions plan sustainable access to their digital cultural assets and to do so by means that link their m…
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Reflecting on Leadership
As digital technology transforms the information landscape, libraries must chart their course in an increasingly fluid, complex environment. How is this new environment redefining leadershi…
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Libraries Designed for Learning
To what extent have recent library design projects been driven by an understanding of how students learn and how faculty teach? To find out, Yale Librarian Emeritus Scott Bennett conducted…
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Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists
Electronic Libraries, Use Studies, Users (Information), Meta Analysis, Library Associations, Research Reports, Evaluation Research, Research Design, Information Utilization, Information Ser…
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Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies
This CLIR report summarizes and analyzes more than 200 recent research publications that focus on the use of electronic library resources (digital libraries and digital resources) and were…
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Emerging Visions for Access in the Twenty-first Century Library
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS DOCUMENTATION ABSTRACTS, INC. INSTITUTES FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE APRIL 21–22, 2003 Presented by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Califor…
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A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns
In 2002, CLIR commissioned a survey of North American-based digital cultural heritage initiatives (DCHIs). The purpose of the survey was to identify the scope, financing, organizational str…
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Developing Print Repositories: Models for Shared Preservation and Access
CLIR commissioned the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to investigate existing models of repositories organized along geographical lines for consortial use as well as models of some arch…
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National Digital Preservation Initiatives: An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity
This report provides an overview of selected key national and multinational initiatives in digital preservation occurring outside North America. It examines digital preservation initiatives…
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Library Buildings and the Building of a Collaborative Research Collection at the Tri-College Library Consortium
This report is the product of a planning grant awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2001 to the Tri-College Library Consortium, which comprises the libraries of Bryn Mawr, Haverfor…
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New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?
In 2002, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CLIR hosted a meeting of scholars, librarians, archivists, technologists, publishers, and funders to discuss the preservation of d…
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Biblored, Colombia's Innovative Library Network
This report describes Biblored, the library network in Bogotá, Colombia, that received the 2002 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award. Biblored is a network of…
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Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment
The collection and long-term preservation of digital content pose challenges to the intellectual property regime within which libraries and archives are accustomed to working. How to achiev…
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The State of Preservation Programs in American College and Research Libraries: Building a Common Understanding and Action Agenda
With funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Council on Library and Information Resources, ARL, the University Libraries Group, and the Regional Alliance for Preserv…
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The Digital Library: A Biography
Digital libraries, once project based and largely autonomous efforts, are maturing. As individual programs have grown, each has developed its own personality, reflecting the circumstances o…
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Diffuse Libraries: Emergent Roles for the Research Library in the Digital Age
Research libraries are taking on a range of new roles in the digital age as they become more deeply engaged in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. While some of these roles are ext…
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The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective
“The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective” is the first in a series of international symposiums that are supported by a grant from Documentation Abstracts…
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Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving
In December 2000, the U.S. Congress appropriated funds to the Library of Congress (LC) to spearhead an effort to develop a national strategy for the preservation of digital information. Und…
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Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns
This report offers a survey of the methods that are being deployed at leading digital libraries to assess the use and usability of their online collections and services. Focusing on 24 Digi…
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Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment
As the scholarly information environment changes, so do the needs, expectations, and behaviors of users. Assessing and responding to those changes is essential for the academic library so t…
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The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections
Although film and digital technology have made the intellectual content of artifacts far more accessible to researchers, scholars have an abiding interest in consulting the original. Mainta…
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Proceedings of the 2000 Sino-United States Symposium and Workshop on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age. November 5-10, 2000; Wuhan, China.
This report contains papers presented at the plenary sessions of the 2000 Sino-United States Symposium and Workshop on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age held Nove…
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Strategies for Building Digitized Collections
In April 2000, the Digital Library Federation commissioned three reports to address broader concerns about digital collections in research libraries. This report synthesizes the nearly 10 y…
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Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums
In February 2001, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) convened a meeting to discuss how museums and…
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Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues and Practices
Author Timothy D. Jewell, head of collection management services at the University of Washington, provides an in-depth look at how several research libraries select, license, present, and s…
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Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources
This report identifies and synthesizes existing practices used in developing collections of free third-party Internet resources that support higher education and research. A review of these…
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A Collaborative Approach to Collection Storage: The Five-College Library Depository
This report offers a case study in the advantages and disadvantages of depository libraries, their economics, and the practical and political issues associated with their creation. As direc…
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Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis
The American Folklore Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress collaborated on a conference, "Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis," held on December 1-2…
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Preservation Science Survey: An Overview of Recent Developments in Research on the Conservation of Selected Analog Library and Archival Materials
This report presents an overview of recent research in the preservation of three information carriers: paper, film and photographic materials, and magnetic tape. It covers significant devel…
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White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics
This paper provides a snapshot of developments in the electronic journal industry. The first section identifies issues affecting librarians and publishers, including: (1) issues of common c…
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Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation
Given the right hardware and software, digital information is easy to create, copy, and disseminate; however it is very hard to preserve. At present, it is impossible to guarantee the longe…
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Authenticity in a Digital Environment
On January 24, 2000, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) convened a group of experts from different domains of the information resources community to address the questio…
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Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files
This report provides an overview of knowledge organization systems (KOSs) and includes pertinent examples of their application to digital materials, offering extensive practical information…
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Managing Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective
This report examines the experiences and contributions of the archival community--practicing archivists, manuscript curators, archival academics, and policy makers who work to define and pr…
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Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment"
This report examines the experiences and contributions of the archival community–practicing archivists, manuscript curators, archival academics, and policy makers who work to define a…
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Collections, Content, and the Web
Thirty leaders of museums and libraries met at the Chicago Historical Society (October 5-7, 1999) to discuss common questions and concerns about digitization of collections and explore the…
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The Making of America II Testbed Project: A Digital Library Service Model
The work of the Making of America II Testbed Project reported in this paper represents a singular effort in digital library development to find ways to provide access to and navigate a vari…
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Building Preservation Knowledge in Brazil
The project to translate into Portuguese and disseminate preservation knowledge was part of a broader partnership between the Council on Library and Information Resources, which incorporate…
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Innovative Use of Information Technology by Colleges
The Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR's) College Libraries Committee began its study of the innovative uses of technology on college campuses in the spring of 1998…
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Securing Our Dance Heritage: Issues in the Documentation and Preservation of Dance
The great research collections of the United States have resulted, in part, from a long and productive collaboration among scholars, librarians, and archivists. This booklet focuses on the…
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Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social Science Data and Metadata
Focusing on the experience of the Yale University (Connecticut) social science data preservation project, this document presents a case study of migration as a preservation strategy, explor…
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The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries
This paper gives an overview of the preservation and management of research collections and describes the context in which decisions are made by researchers and librarians about what to pre…
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Enabling Access in Digital Libraries
On April 6, 1998, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored a one-day workshop on ways to improve systems of managing access to digital inform…
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Scholarship, Instruction, and Libraries at the Turn of the Century
The American Council of Learned Societies and the Council on Library and Information Resources appointed 36 scholars, librarians, and leaders of various academic enterprises to five task fo…
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Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation
There is as yet no viable long-term strategy to ensure that digital information will be readable in the future. Digital documents are vulnerable to loss via the decay and obsolescence of th…
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SGML as a Framework for Digital Preservation and Access
This report explores the suitability of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) as a framework for building, managing, and providing access to digital libraries, with special emphasis o…
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Mass Deacidification: An Update on Possibilities and Limitations
This report provides an update of the possibilities and limitations of currently available mass deacidification methods, focusing on the major developments in research and application of th…
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Preservation Challenges in a Changing Political Climate. A Report from Russia
n Russia today, substantial political, economic, and social changes directly affect the preservation efforts of libraries and archives. Prepared by the Deputy Director General of the M. I.…
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Preserving Digital Information, Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information
The 21-member Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information was formed in December 1994 and spent a year studying what is needed to make digital libraries stable, accessible, and valid. Th…
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Preservation Activities in Canada: A Unifying Theme in a Decentralised Country
This document presents an overview of the Canadian national preservation program. It is divided into three sections: (1) Federal Initiatives, which explores activities at the National Libra…
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New Tools for Preservation: Assessing Long-Term Environmental Effects on Library and Archives Collections
A new method was developed by the Image Permanence Institute for monitoring the effects of dynamic environmental conditions on organic materials in order to make it easier to manage the pre…
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"Difficult Choices:" How Can Scholars Help Save Endangered Research Resources?
This report caps an 8-year initiative that has had as its goal the recruitment and formation of scholarly committees to investigate the state of decay and preservation of collections within…
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Digital Imaging of Papyri: A Report to the Commission on Preservation and Access
The study of papyri has been significantly limited, and because of their fragile and fragmentary condition, papyri pose significant preservation and research challenges. This report explore…
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Oversize Color Images Project, 1994-1995: A Report to the Commission on Preservation and Access
This report provides results of the first phase of a project to identify acceptable preservation and digital access techniques for dealing with oversize, color images associated with text.…
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Preservation Priorities in Latin America: A Report from the Sixtieth IFLA Meeting, Havana, Cuba
The information in this report is condensed from the presentations and conversations, both formal and informal, that occurred during the 60th meeting of the International Federation of Libr…
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Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling: A Guide for Libraries and Archives
This document provides a guide on how to properly store and care for magnetic media to maximize their life expectancies. An introduction compares magnetic media to paper and film and outlin…
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Tutorial: Digital Resolution Requirements for Replacing Text-Based Material: Methods for Benchmarking Image Quality
This tutorial provides a means to estimate resolution requirements for the use of digital imaging technology in converting text-based material. It is suggested that benchmarks for resolutio…
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The European Register of Microform Masters — Supporting International Cooperation
With almost every country in the world doing costly microfilming to preserve the world's printed heritage, it is essential to find a way by which these vast stores of information are no…
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Preservation Activities in Bulgaria: The State of Affairs and Possibilities for Cooperation
This report provides a review of Bulgaria's history as it relates to library collections, and describes the current state of preservation activities at key institutions. The discussion…
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The International Program and Its Global Mission. Introduction to Report Series
The mission of the international program is to enable the preservation of materials in the spirit of worldwide cooperation, and to ensure enduring access among countries and throughout time…
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The Commission on Preservation and Access Working Paper on the Future
Prepared by Commission Board and staff to serve as a guide for future directions for Commission at a time when the emphasis on preservation is shifting from printed matter to recorded knowl…
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Image Formats for Preservation and Access: A Report of the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee
Compares digital and microfilm imagery and concludes that making either kind of copy is preferable to leaving acidic paper to decay. Looks at image formats as they relate to preservation, s…
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2012 - 2013 Annual Report
2013 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2021 - 2022 Annual Report
2021-2022 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2020 - 2021 Annual Report
2020-2021 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2016 - 2017 Annual Report
2017 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2015 - 2016 Annual Report
2016 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2014 - 2015 Annual Report
2015 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2013 - 2014 Annual Report
2014 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2011 - 2012 Annual Report
2012 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2011 - 2012 Annual Report
2012 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2010 - 2011 Annual Report
2011 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2009 - 2010 Annual Report
2010 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2008 - 2009 Annual Report
2009 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2007 - 2008 Annual Report
2008 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2006 Annual Report
2007 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2005 Annual Report
2006 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2004 Annual Report
2005 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2003 Annual Report
2004 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2002 Annual Report
2003 Annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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2001 Annual Report
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) brings together experts from around the country and around the world and asks them to turn their intelligence to the problems that li…
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2000 Annual Report
This annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) begins with a list of staff, a letter for the Chairman of the Board, and a message from the CLIR President. Act…
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1999 Annual Report
This annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) begins with a list of supporters, a letter from the chairman, and a message from the president. The major CLIR…
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1998-1999 Annual Report
This annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) contains a list of funders and sponsors, and includes a message from the president. The major CLIR programs are…
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1997-1998 Annual Report
The merger of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library Resources (CLR) became official on May 30, 1997 when the Board approved the new enterprise, the Council on…
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1996-1997 Annual Report
The Commission on Preservation and Access was established to foster, develop, and support collaboration among libraries and organizations in order to ensure the preservation of published an…
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39th Annual Report
This report emphasizes the plan of the new President of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) plan to concentrate on the development of leadership in libraries to better manage technologic…
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1995-1996 Annual Report
COMMISSION ON PRESERVATION AND ACCESS ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1996
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38th Annual Report
This report reveals the size and scope of the efforts of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) to meet current and emerging social needs for library-based information service. The current…
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1994-1995 Annual Report
COMMISSION ON PRESERVATION AND ACCESS ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 1994 - June 30, 1995
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37th Annual Report
The Council on Library Resources was created to address the problems of libraries and is now committed to the most significant library problem of all, ensuring that library resources are em…
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1993-1994 Annual Report
Annual for The Commission on Preservation & Access
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36th Annual Report
The 36th Annual Report for the Council on Library Resources
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1992-1993 Annual Report
Annual for The Commission on Preservation & Access
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35th Annual Report
This review of Council on Library Resources (CLR) activities for 1990/91 begins with status reports on the following CLR managed projects: professional education, including the Academic Lib…
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THE COMMISSION ON PRESERVATION AND ACCESS Annual Report
The Commission on Preservation and Access was established in 1986 to foster and support collaboration among libraries and allied organizations in order to ensure the preservation of the pub…
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34th Annual Report
This review of Council on Library Resources (CLR) activities for 1989/90 begins by providing status reports on the four projects that have dominated staff efforts during the year. The repor…
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THE COMMISSION ON PRESERVATION AND ACCESS Annual Report
This annual report describes the activities of the Commission on Preservation and Access, a private, nonprofit organization that works through existing institutions and groups to foster, de…
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33rd Annual Report
This annual report provides a review of Council on Library Resources (CLR) activities for 1988-1989. Status reports on long-term projects and/or lists of relevant activities funded during t…
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32nd Annual Report
Annual report for the Council on Library Resources, 1988.
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COMMISSION ON PRESERVATION AND ACCESS: ANNUAL REPORT
COMMISSION ON PRESERVATION AND ACCESS ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1,1988 - JUNE 30,1989
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31st Annual Report
Annual report for the Council on Library Resources, 1987.
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30th Annual Report
The 1986 annual report of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) reviews activity over the previous 10 years and provides a full record for the 12 months ending June 30, 1986, focusing on t…
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29th Annual Report
The 1985 annual report of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) describes an underlying uniformity of purpose in the activities of each of the three components of the program: research, ex…
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28th Annual Report
Highlights of the Council on Library Resources' (CLR) 28th year and descriptions of active projects are included in the body of this report. Preliminary materials include lists of members o…
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27th Annual Report
This report describes the activities of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR) during the 1982-83 fiscal year. Contents include lists of members of the Council, the Council Board of D…
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Annual Report to Foundations
Annual report to foundations for 1983/1984
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THE COMMISSION ON PRESERVATION AND ACCESS: ANNUAL REPORT
This annual report describes the activities of the Commission on Preservation and Access, a private, nonprofit organization that works through existing institutions and groups to foster, de…
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26th Annual Report: 1982
This report describes the activities of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR) during the 1981-82 fiscal year. Contents include lists of members of the Council, the Council Board of D…
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ANNUAL REPORT TO FOUNDATIONS: July 1, 1981 - June 30, 1982
This report describes the activities of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR) during the 1981-82 fiscal year. Contents include lists of members of the Council, the Council Board of D…
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25th Annual Report
25th Annual Report for Council on Library Resources
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24th Annual Report: 1980
This report describes the activities, programs, and financial status of the Council of Library Resources (CLR) in fiscal 1980. CLR-supported activities in areas of bibliographic services, l…
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ANNUAL REPORT TO FOUNDATIONS: July 1, 1980 - June 30, 1981
Annual report to Foundations for period July 1, 1980 - June 30, 1981
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: ACTIVITIES AND CONCERNS TO DATE
Report on Bibliographic Service Development Program
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23rd Annual Report: 1979
This report describes the activities and financial status of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) during the 1978-79 fiscal year. Contents include: listings of the members of CLR, its boa…
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ANNUAL REPORT TO FOUNDATIONS July 1, 1979 - June 30, 1980
Report to Foundations for July 1, 1979 - June 30, 1980 for the Council on Library Resources
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22nd Annual Report: 1978
Highlights of the Council's activities during the year are briefly reviewed, and the current board of directors, committee members, officers, and staff members are listed. Areas covered…
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REPORT TO THE FORD FOUNDATION: July 1, 1977 - June 30, 1978
Report to the Mellon Foundation on the Council on Library Resources for July 1, 1977 - June 30, 1978
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21st Annual Report: 1977
21st Annual Report: 1977 for Council on Library Resources
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20th Annual Report: 1976
The 1976 20th annual report for the Council in Library Resources (CLR) reviews the highlights of the past two decades, describes current activities in the context of the past, and relates t…
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19th Annual Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1975
An annual report for 1974-75 is presented by the Council on Library Resources (CLR) which was established in 1956, with funds from the Ford Foundation, to help provide solutions to signific…
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REPORT TO THE FORD FOUNDATION: July 1, 1975 - June 30, 1976
Grant report to the Ford Foundation for efforts undertaken July 1, 1975 - June 30, 1976
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REPORT TO THE FORD FOUNDATION: July 1, 1974 - June 30, 1975
Grant report to the Ford Foundation for efforts in 1974-1975.
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18th Annual Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1974
The 1973-74 program of the Council on Library Resources, a private operating foundation devoted to the solution of library problems, is reported. The council's board of directors, commi…
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COUNCIL ON LIBRARY RESOURCES: A REVIEW OF ITS WORK
No resource is more important than the library in the preservation of man's culture and in his quest for knowledge. Yet in the 1950s -- when libraries were desperately struggling to dea…
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17th Annual Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1973
This report describes the efforts of the Council on Library Resources to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and economy of operations in libraries during 1972-73. It covers 9 major area…
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16th Annual Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1972
16th Annual Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1972 for Council on Library Resources
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15th Annual Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1971
During the fiscal year covered by this report, the Council allocated $1,401,982 for the support of 32 new projects and continued or completed work on a number of others. In the area of admi…
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14th Annual Report, For the Period Ending June 30, 1970
In this report of the Council's fourteenth year, a sum of $1,722,375 was appropriated for the support of 29 new projects and work was continued or completed on a good many more. It has…
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13th ANNUAL REPORT for the year ended June 30, 1969
13th ANNUAL REPORT for the year ended June 30, 1969 for Council and Library Resources
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12th ANNUAL REPORT for the year ended June 30, 1968
12th ANNUAL REPORT for the year ended June 30, 1968 for Council on Library Resources
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11th ANNUAL REPORT for the year ended June 30, 1967
ANNUAL REPORT for the year ended June 30, 1967 for COUNCIL ON LIBRARY RESOURCES, INC.
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10th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1966
10th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1966 for Council on Library Resources, Inc.
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9th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1965
9th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1965 for Council on Library Resources, Inc.
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8th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1964
8th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1964 for Council on Library Resources, Inc.
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7th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1963
7th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1963 for Council on Library Resources, Inc.
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6th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1962
6th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1962 for the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
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5th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1961
5th Annual Report for the period ending June 30, 1961 for the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
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Reports of Projects and Publications Resulting from Projects
This bibliography is printed on an experimental paper produced under a grant from the Council on Library Resources to the Virginia State Library, Richmond, .through the experimental work of…
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FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT for the period ending June 30, 1960
FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT for the period ending June 30, 1960 for the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
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Third ANNUAL REPORT for the period ending June 30,1959
Third ANNUAL REPORT for the period ending June 30,1959 for the Council on Library Resources
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2nd ANNUAL REPORT for the period ending June 30, 1958
2nd ANNUAL REPORT for the period ending June 30, 1958 for the COUNCIL ON LIBRARY RESOURCES, INC.
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1st Annual Report For the period ending June 30, 1957
The Council came into being on September 18, 1956, the date of its first meeting. This, the report of its activity for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1957, covers in consequence a period so…
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Telling the Philadelphia Story through Special Collections and City Records
Presentation at CLIR Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium
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Philadelphia GeoHistory: Using the World Wide Web to put historic assets in the public domain
Presentation at CLIR Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium
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Sustaining Public Media
In November 2017, WGBH and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) convened a small group of library and archival professionals, technologists, and representatives of fundin…
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Creating Value and Impact in the Digital Age Through Translational Humanities
Two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson argued that ideas animate the world when access to them is free of barriers. Like many of his peers, he believed that access to information is vital…
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Supporting Humanities Doctoral Student Success: A Collaborative Project between Cornell University Library and Columbia University Libraries
It is well documented that doctoral students in the humanities take longer to complete their programs and drop out at a higher rate than do students in the sciences and social sciences. In…
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Bibliographic Indeterminacy and the Scale of Problems and Opportunities of "Rights" in Digital Collection Building
The research library community has little strong or reliable data on the number of unique books in our collections and their “rights”—for example, whether they are in the…
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Introduction to Anvil
Charles Henry gives an overview of Anvil Academic’s origins, partners, and goals and describes the type of research Anvil Academic will publish, drawing on examples from pro…
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Shibboleth: Building Tools for Inter-institutional Resource Sharing
Presentation at Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators Workshop
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Making the Case for Curation:The Practical Experiment of DSpace
Presentation at Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators Workshop
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Planning for Digitization: Overview of Major Issues
Presentation at Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators Workshop
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Content: or, a Tale of Mass and Malleability
Presentation at Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators Workshop
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Unweaving the Rainbow: about (a couple of) today's scholarly communications hot topics
Presentation at Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators Workshop
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Envisioning the Scholar's Workspace: Tools to Gather, Create, Share
Presentation at Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators Workshop
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Managing Digital Assets:The Organizational Case
Presentation at Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators Workshop
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Metadata: Practice and Practice
Presentation at Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators Workshop
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How are provosts and academic administrators preparing to meet the demand for digital scholarly information?
Presentation at CLIR 2005 Sponsors’ Symposium
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A Clouded Vision: The Future for Major Research University Libraries
Presentation at CLIR 2005 Sponsors’ Symposium
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IMLS Study: the Future of Librarians in the Workforce
Presentation at CLIR 2005 Sponsors’ Symposium
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Developments: New forms of Digital Content
Presentation at CLIR 2005 Sponsors’ Symposium
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Assessment 360: Mapping Undergraduates and the Library at the University of Connecticut
In January 2009, two members of the brand-new Undergraduate Education Team at the University of Connecticut Libraries attended Nancy Fried Foster’s CLIR-sponsored Faculty Research Beh…
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TextGrid: A Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities
Presentation at CLIR 2011 Sponsors’ Symposium
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Whose Goals are They? Navigating Diverse Institutional Cultures and Shared Responsibility for Creating Digital Resources in the History of Medicine
Presentation at the CLIR 2011 Sponsors’ Symposium.
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The Making of Hydra: Common Solutions for Common Problems
Presentation at the 2011 CLIR Sponsors' Symposium
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A Distant Symmetry
Final Report: U.S. Intelligence Community Tools, August 8, 2010.
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Working for Freedom: Documenting the Civil Rights Movement
Presentation August 14, 2010 at ARCHIVES*RECORDS/DC 2010 (Joint Annual Meeting of CoSA, NAGARA, and SAA)
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INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT MEETING
In November 2009 Stanford University and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) co-hosted an international gathering to discuss opportunities for collaboration in digital l…
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The Future of Digital Scholarship: Preparation, Training, Curricula
In recent years, the topic of digital scholarship has gained new significance in scholarly arenas around the world. The growing number of digital studies centers has provided an alternative…
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Supporting Digital Tools for Humanists: Investigating Tool Infrastructure
The original “Tools for Humanists” report (Nguyen and Shilton 2008) evaluated more than 30 digital tools designed for use by the humanities community. The report focused on the…
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Archival Management Software: A Report for the Council on Library and Information Resources
Whether called “the elephant in the closet” (Mandel 2004, 106) or a “dirty little secret” (Tabb 2004, 123), hidden collections are becoming recognized as a major pro…
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Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges In the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation
Advanced research takes place in an evolving, technologically-mediated environment of data, computationally intensive capabilities and functions, and new forms of expression. As part of its…
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Head in the Clouds and Boots on the Ground: Science, Cyberinfrastructure and CLIR
Paper presented at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Nonoichi-machi, Ishikawa, Japan, July 2008.
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The Seamless Cyberinfrastructure: The Challenges of Studying Users of Mass Digitization and Institutional Repositories
In recent years, academic libraries have launched major initiatives to make their resources more easily available to users. But with this increasingly sophisticated infrastructure comes a u…
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Many More than a Million: Building the digital environment for the age of abundance
Twenty-eight scholars in the digital humanities and representatives of the research and funding agencies met at a one-day workshop, hosted by CLIR in Washington, D.C., on November 28, 2007,…
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Surveying the E-Journal Preservation Landscape
Survey on the E-Journal Landscape
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Measurement and Evaluation of Analog-to-Digital Converters Used in the Long-Term Preservation of Audio Recordings
The analog-to-digital (A/D) converter lies at the heart of the encoding side of a digital audio system, and is perhaps the most critical component in the entire signal chain. The A/D conver…
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Image Retrieval Benchmark Database Service: A Needs Assessment and Preliminary Development Plan
A report on the feasibility of creating an image retrieval benchmarking service.
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New Trends in Faculty Use of Digital Resources
Presentation at the 2004 CLIR Sponsors’ Symposium
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The Virtual Approach to Education: Reshaping the Role of the Library
Presentation at the 2004 CLIR Sponsors' Symposium
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The Growth of Self-Contained, Interactive Web Sites for Teaching, Learning, and Research: The Case of Virtual Jamestown
Presentation at the 2004 CLIR Sponsors' Symposium
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The Library's Role in the Reinvention of Undergraduate Education
Presentation at the 2004 CLIR Sponsors' Symposium
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Righting the Balance: Space for Learning in Libraries
Presentation for the 2004 CLIR Sponsor's Symposium
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Welcoming Remarks
Welcoming remarks to the 2004 CLIR Sponsors’ Symposium.
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Requirements for the Future Digital Library
An address to the Elsevier Digital Libraries Symposium in Philadelphia, PA, 25 January 2003
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Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books
This working paper examines the dual use of microfilm for preservation and digital imaging for enhanced access in the context of the brittle books program. It seeks to build on work that ha…
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Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Information
Digital documents are replacing paper in the most dramatic record-keeping revolution since the invention of printing. Is the current generation of these documents doomed to be lost forever?…
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DEI Efforts Across GLAM Organizations: A Report by the GLAM Diversity Subgroup of the DLF Committee for Equity and Inclusion
In early 2021, the Digital Library Federation Committee on Equity and Inclusion (DLF CEI) formed a subgroup to identify resources and activities that have been useful in supporting Diversit…
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