24 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
The preservation plan is implemented by the Digital Library Department. The architecture collection acquisitions and
digitization projects are managed by the Architecture Library.
The University Library and the Humanities Division’s Visual Resource Center
University Libraries
University Libraries Technology Services
Comments N=18
Answered Yes
Collection development decisions, including those governing the development of digital collections, refer to the direction
provided by the library strategic plan (2010).
Much of what we do and our policies are not written. Distinction between digital collections and digital repository
selection is understood, no written overall preservation plan only separate documents, reformatting policies and
procedures not entirely documented, selection is a group process.
Newly adopted not yet implemented.
Plan is a work in progress.
This policy is for DCS rather than all of the university.
We do not at present have one, overarching cohesive written plan as mentioned above. However, we do have practice
and implementation and a series of smaller plans that point to a larger goal. We are in the process of formalizing several
policies that will, as a group, better inform a comprehensive plan.
We have workflows for this but no single DAM plan.
Answered No
An action report with recommendations for a plan was submitted to the library administration in 2009, but acquisition,
creation, management continues to be handled mostly ad hoc and piecemeal.
In some cases, we are developing components of this plan (e.g., digitizing existing collections, preserving both analog
and digital collections), though we don’t have a single comprehensive DAM plan at the present time. Licensing
of commercial digital image products (such as ARTstor) is handled through our usual e-resources acquisitions and
management path.
LC is aware of the need for a digital assets management plan and is working to develop one. Our Digital Content
Management Group is underway. Despite the current lack of an in-house DAMP, LC is the home of the National Digital
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), a US national program for long-term preservation of
digital cultural assets.
Partial plan in RUCore digital repository.
Plan is under development.
The fact that we do not have a formal policy for digital asset management ought not to be taken to imply that we are
not doing any of these activities such a plan might outline it simply means that we have not codified these activities in
the form of a policy or plan.
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