Engineering Commons^™

GVSU Libraries is advancing an agenda to evolve its data management support from that of ad-hoc faculty consultations to enacting a suite of new collaborative and dependable library services. This presentation will share details and lessons-learned from experimentations that range from liaison training to repository software developments.

In 2017, GVSU Libraries began a web archiving initiative to capture our public-facing administrative, academic, arts, university publications and other websites and documents. In this presentation, Annie Benefiel (Archivist for Collection Management) and Matt Schultz (Metadata & Digital Curation Librarian) described the policy development process, the use of Archive-It as the web archiving solution, and the internal workflows followed to accomplish this important activity of capturing GVSU's institutional record.

By Fall 2016, GVSU Libraries began making a major strategic and technology shift toward the use of open source technologies versus commercial vendor solutions for digital preservation and access. In this presentation to the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners (MMDP) community, Matt Schultz (Metadata & Digital Curation Librarian) and Kyle Felker (Digital Initiatives Librarian) provide updates on these new directions.