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Metadata strategies and standards.
Plan to implement other categories of consultation in the coming year.
There is a dedicated assessment coordinator in the library, outside DLS who works through committees but there is
overlap in personnel with DLS.
These have been done by CCNMTL, CDRS, and LDPD, but not DHC.
We get help on this from other library units, currently, although we have relied on some of our own expertise here, too.
We prefer the term “life cycle management.”
Education about: N=47
Copyright issues 46 98%
Open access issues 42 89%
Ethical issues 18 38%
Other, please describe 4 9%
Copyright review and education on intellectual property and permissions. These have been done mostly by CCNMTL,
CDRS, and LDPD, but not DHC (except for some minimal beginning advice on copyright).
There are dedicated specialists in open access in the Medical Library (separate organization) but here again, we are
gaining expertise Digital Access Librarian is an attorney.
This is all done only on an as-needed basis. Moral rights, privacy rights, cultural and documentary heritage rights,
academic faculty rights (AAUP), informed consent, requirements from the institutional review board, and their relation
to responsibilities in terms of cultural heritage/trust institutions. Permissions-based models to support varied rights and
responsibilities.
We get help on this from other library units, currently, although we have relied on some of our own expertise here, too.
10. Does your library encourage/facilitate/promote cross-, trans-, or inter-disciplinary projects? N=47
Yes 39 83%
No 8 17%
If yes, please briefly describe the strategies used to support such projects (such as identifying
potential research partners, hosting cross-disciplinary symposia or events, tracking research
projects with a cross-disciplinary potential). N=34
Metadata strategies and standards.
Plan to implement other categories of consultation in the coming year.
There is a dedicated assessment coordinator in the library, outside DLS who works through committees but there is
overlap in personnel with DLS.
These have been done by CCNMTL, CDRS, and LDPD, but not DHC.
We get help on this from other library units, currently, although we have relied on some of our own expertise here, too.
We prefer the term “life cycle management.”
Education about: N=47
Copyright issues 46 98%
Open access issues 42 89%
Ethical issues 18 38%
Other, please describe 4 9%
Copyright review and education on intellectual property and permissions. These have been done mostly by CCNMTL,
CDRS, and LDPD, but not DHC (except for some minimal beginning advice on copyright).
There are dedicated specialists in open access in the Medical Library (separate organization) but here again, we are
gaining expertise Digital Access Librarian is an attorney.
This is all done only on an as-needed basis. Moral rights, privacy rights, cultural and documentary heritage rights,
academic faculty rights (AAUP), informed consent, requirements from the institutional review board, and their relation
to responsibilities in terms of cultural heritage/trust institutions. Permissions-based models to support varied rights and
responsibilities.
We get help on this from other library units, currently, although we have relied on some of our own expertise here, too.
10. Does your library encourage/facilitate/promote cross-, trans-, or inter-disciplinary projects? N=47
Yes 39 83%
No 8 17%
If yes, please briefly describe the strategies used to support such projects (such as identifying
potential research partners, hosting cross-disciplinary symposia or events, tracking research
projects with a cross-disciplinary potential). N=34