Open AccessHathiTrust and Local Digital Stewardship: A Case Study in How Massive Digital Libraries Affect Local Digital Resources Decisions
Author(s) -
Heidi Winkler,
Joy M. Perrin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of librarianship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2474-3542
DOI - 10.23974/ijol.0.vol0.0.30
Subject(s) - digitization , stewardship (theology) , digital preservation , digital collections , digital curation , digital library , process (computing) , computer science , affect (linguistics) , world wide web , data curation , business , political science , sociology , art , literature , poetry , communication , politics , law , computer vision , operating system
This article reviews the influence that massive digital libraries like the HathiTrust DigitalLibrary can have on local, smaller institutions’ digitization, preservation, and curationprograms. The history of HathiTrust’s digital preservation efforts as a Trusted Repository isreviewed. A case study is presented showing how one academic library made difficult digitalstewardship decisions in a modern world of globally federated preservation initiatives. Theauthors introduce the concept of deselection as part of the digital curation process and discusshow digital collection administrators can refine their local digital preservation efforts to betterreflect the realities of constrained human and financial resources.