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Library and Information Science

2016

Preservation

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Common Guidelines For Digitization: A Community Effort, G. Patrick Flanagan Ii Apr 2016

Common Guidelines For Digitization: A Community Effort, G. Patrick Flanagan Ii

G. Patrick Flanagan II

Various organizations are in the process of defining common guidelines, methods, and practices for digitizing and ingesting historical as well as born-digital content. This program brings together various constituents to discuss standards for digital image quality, as well as best practices for digital preservation and archiving materials so that more organizations can become effective, long-term digital surrogates.

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Law School Institutional Repositories: A Survey, Kincaid C. Brown Jan 2016

Law School Institutional Repositories: A Survey, Kincaid C. Brown

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There has been a dramatic rise in the number of law libraries managing institutional repositories for their law schools. In 2011, there were some 30 law schools with such repositories; now, 80 of the top 100 law schools have their own or participate in a university-wide repository wherein the law school has an identifiable, school-specific collection or community. This article discusses a survey of the of the top 101 law schools, in hopes of facilitating an understanding of the breadth of material to be found in law school institutional repositories.

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