Book chapter
From Collection Silos to Digital Content Hubs: Digital Project Management in Special Collections and University Archives
Project Management in the Library Workplace, pp.187-198
Emerald Publishing
2018
DOI: 10.1108/S0732-067120180000038014
Abstract
Purpose
This chapter discusses how digital project management has fundamentally changed the nature of collection service models in university archives and special collections.
Methodology/approach
Through a conceptual overview of case studies, this chapter examines the establishment of “digital content hubs,” with a special focus on the ways in which a variety of library units share the work of surfacing distinctive collections through cross-functional team-building.
Findings
To successfully build “digital content hubs,” academic libraries have embraced a new alignment to incorporate special collections and archives staff, services, and collections more holistically into larger library collecting initiatives and organizational structures. This chapter posits that, through the stewardship of digital projects, archivists and librarians have had to sharpen and expand requisite managerial and technical skills to support “distinctive collection teams” who work cross-functionality with outward-facing approaches to integrated collection building. In addition to embracing assessment tools and diversified funding strategies, archives and special collections have also adopted new collaboration models reliant on centralized but flexible project management structures that emphasize cross-training, complementary subject and technological specializations, and a team-based focus in order to ensure interoperability, sustainability, and broad accessibility of digital collections.
Originality/value
This chapter offers readers a new way of conceptualizing “distinctive collection teams,” proposes some strategies for marshaling resources from across library units, and suggests ways in which librarians and archivists can collaborate on content selection, copyright clearance, metadata creation, and web design and information technology development.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- From Collection Silos to Digital Content Hubs: Digital Project Management in Special Collections and University Archives
- Creators
- Angela Fritz
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Project Management in the Library Workplace, pp.187-198
- DOI
- 10.1108/S0732-067120180000038014
- ISSN
- 0732-0671
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing; Bingley, UK
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- School of Library and Information Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984946629102771
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