While mergers can save struggling institutions and foster stronger student experiences in the long run, they are complex and their implications for scholarly content and services must be considered thoughtfully.
College closures are increasing across the U.S, and the impacts on libraries, publishers, vendors, and library consortia are intensifying.
Libraries’ ability to steward print collections in the future is being compromised by how we manage them now. How can we evolve our shared print strategy to align with the core values of libraries, and to increase the value proposition of print collections. Part 1 of 2.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Alicia Wise of CLOCKSS, the digital archive for academic publishers and research libraries.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico, the community-supported preservation archive.
The role of libraries and archives as streaming grows, choice declines, and the death of the red envelopes arrives.
Revisiting a post from 2017: Several services aim to gather all publications comprehensively. Who has all the content?
Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.
Scholars are anxious about what materials will be preserved and made accessible. Whose priorities come first?
This week, CLOCKSS has announced its new Succession Plan, a key component of its preservation strategy. Today, Roger Schonfeld interviews CLOCKSS executive director Craig van Dyck about the announcement and other digital preservation issues.
Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.
A fragmented map found stuffed up a Scottish chimney is restored into a meaningful historical document.
How do you restore a damaged painting? The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows the way.
The era of Big Data raises many questions about why and how data should or can be preserved, who should lead the effort, and what the cost-benefit equation currently is.
A recent study of preservation practices for digital materials raises fundamental questions that aren’t so easy to answer.