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Digitisation in UK libraries and archives: is a national strategy needed?
preprint
posted on 2005-09-07, 11:22 authored by Barbara Bultmann, Rachel Hardy, Adrienne Muir, Clara WictorIn August 2004, the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Consortium
of Research Libraries Digital Content Creation & Curation Task Force issued
an invitation to tender for a study of the current provision of digitised
collections for researchers in the UK higher education sector. The objectives
of this study included identifying what digitised content exists, user needs and
demand, UK research library digitisation activities and plans, funding sources
and models and standards. The work also included consideration of the need
for a national strategy for digitisation and recommendations for action.
Funding
JISC and CURL commissioned a team of researchers from the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University to carry out this survey between 1 November 2004 and 7 March 2005.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Information Science
Pages
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- SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)
Publication date
2005Notes
This pre-print has been submitted to the journal, D-Lib Magazine [© Corporation for National Research Initiatives].Language
- en