Selection for digital conversion in academic libraries

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 58-69

  De Stefano, Paula ^a  

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References (57)

1. Clifford Lynch, "The Role of Digitization in Building Electronic Collections: Economic and Programmatic Choices," in Selecting Library and Archive Collections for Digital Reformatting, proceedings from an RLG Symposium held Nov. 5-6, 1995, Washington, D.C. (Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, 1996), 2.
2. Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book, trans. David Gerard, eds. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wooton (New York: Verso, 1997), 19; first published as L'Apparition du livre (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1958).
3. Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book, trans. David Gerard, eds. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wooton (New York: Verso, 1997), 19; first published as L'Apparition du livre (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1958).
4. Ibid., 11.
5. Ibid, 248-49. Febvre says, "Some 30,000-35,000 different editions printed between 1450 and 1500 have survived, representing 10,000-15,000 different texts, and if we were to take into account those which have not survived the figures would perhaps be much larger. Assuming an average print run to be no greater than 500, then about 20 million books were printed before 1500, an impressive total even by 20th-century standards." However, he further qualifies this estimate in a footnote saying, "Of course we mean only to indicate some idea of scale. According to Vladimir Loublinsky, production would be somewhere between 12 and 20 million copies."
6. Ibid., 249.
7. Ibid., 260.
8. An exception to this would be when grant and/or donor funds are available to the academic institution to scan and make available on the Internet educational materials that would benefit an outside constituency or, perhaps, in those cases where the institution of higher education is publicly funded and mandated to provide K-12 access to their collections. The idea expressed here - that the academic library's commitment to higher education (to the exclusion of K-12) as part of their mission - is most appropriate to research libraries and is based on a historic and economic perspective that acknowledges the traditional purposes of the academic library. This, however, is an emphasis that could undergo radical changes in the future. See the Library of Congress's "American Memory Collections" for an excellent example of selection for a broader constituency that includes K-12 and others.
9. Carla Hesse, "Humanities Scholarship in the Digital Age," in What's Happened to the Humanities, ed. Alvin Kernan (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Pr., 1997), 110-11.
10. J. Periam Danton, Book Selection and Collections: A Comparison of German and American University Libraries (New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1963), 34.
11. Ibid.
12. William S. Monroe, "The Role of Selection in Collection Development: Past, Present and Future," in Collection Management for the 21st Century (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr., 1997), 114.
13. Danton, 71. See also Raven Fonfa's, "From Faculty to Librarian Materials Selection: An Element in the Professionalization of Librarianship," in Leadership and Academic Librarians, eds. Terrence F. Mech and Gerard B. McCabe (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr., 1998), 22-36.
14. Danton, Book Selection and Collections, 74.
15. Fonfa, "From Faculty to Library Materials Selection," 29.
16. Danton, Book Selection and Collections, 75.
17. Robert N. Broadus, "The History of Collection Development," in Collection Management: A New Treatise, eds. Charles B. Osburn and Ross Atkinson (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Pr., 1991), 9.
18. Ross Atkinson, "The Conditions of Collection Development," in Collection Management: A New Treatise, eds. Charles B. Osburn and Ross Atkinson (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Pr., 1991), 36.
19. John Rutledge and Luke Swindler, "The Selection Decision: Defining Criteria and Establishing Priorities," College & Research Libraries 48, no. 2 (Mar. 1987): 125, 128.
20. Hendrik Edelman, "Selection Methodology in Academic Libraries," Library Resources & Technical Services 23, no. 37 (winter 1979): 34.
21. David Fielding and Carl Lagoze, "Defining Collections in Distributed Digital Libraries," in D-Lib Magazine (Nov. 1998). Available online at: www.dlib.org/dlib/november98/ lagoze/11lagoze.html.
22. Edelman, "Selection Methodology in Academic Libraries," 34.
23. Rutledge and Swindler, "The Selection Decision," 128.
24. Monroe, "The Role of Selection in Collection Development," 107.
25. Ibid., 106. See also Broadus, "The History of Collection Development," 3-28, for a deeper treatment on the subject of size of collections and for an excellent bibliography on the history of collection development.
26. Ibid., 106. See also Broadus, "The History of Collection Development," 3-28, for a deeper treatment on the subject of size of collections and for an excellent bibliography on the history of collection development.
27. Interestingly, John Price-Wilkins takes the opposing view and argues in favor of just-in-case collections, and has applied the just-in-time selection model to the decision to create and store derivatives (i.e., images derived from larger TIFF images) in "Just-in-time Conversion, Just-in-case Collections," 5 Aug. 1999. Available online at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/ may97/michigan/05pricewilkin.html.
28. For an excellent overview of selection methods for preservation, see Margaret S. Child, "Selection for Preservation," in Advances in Preservation and Access, vol. 1, ed. Barbara Buckner Higginbotham (Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1992).
29. Roger S. Bagnall and Carolyn L. Harris, "Involving Scholars in Preservation Decisions: The Case of the Classicists," Journal of Academic Librarianship 13, no. 3 (July 1987): 141.
30. Ibid., 141.
31. Child, "Selection for Preservation," 149-151.
32. Ross Atkinson, "Selection for Preservation: A Materialistic Approach," Library Resources & Technical Services 30 (Oct./Dec. 1986): 344-48.
33. Ibid., 346.
34. See Christinger Tomer, "Identification; Evaluation, and Selection of Books for Preservation," Collection Management 3, no. 1 (spring 1979) and "Selecting Library Materials for Preservation," Library and Archives Security 7, no. 1 (spring 1985). See also Barclay W. Ogden, "Preservation Selection and Treatment Options," in Preservation: A Research Library Priority: Minutes of the 111th Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1987), 38-42. Margaret Child's summary of the condition and use methodology is excellent in "Selection for Preservation," 153-55.
35. See Christinger Tomer, "Identification; Evaluation, and Selection of Books for Preservation," Collection Management 3, no. 1 (spring 1979) and "Selecting Library Materials for Preservation," Library and Archives Security 7, no. 1 (spring 1985). See also Barclay W. Ogden, "Preservation Selection and Treatment Options," in Preservation: A Research Library Priority: Minutes of the 111th Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1987), 38-42. Margaret Child's summary of the condition and use methodology is excellent in "Selection for Preservation," 153-55.
36. See Christinger Tomer, "Identification; Evaluation, and Selection of Books for Preservation," Collection Management 3, no. 1 (spring 1979) and "Selecting Library Materials for Preservation," Library and Archives Security 7, no. 1 (spring 1985). See also Barclay W. Ogden, "Preservation Selection and Treatment Options," in Preservation: A Research Library Priority: Minutes of the 111th Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1987), 38-42. Margaret Child's summary of the condition and use methodology is excellent in "Selection for Preservation," 153-55.
37. See Christinger Tomer, "Identification; Evaluation, and Selection of Books for Preservation," Collection Management 3, no. 1 (spring 1979) and "Selecting Library Materials for Preservation," Library and Archives Security 7, no. 1 (spring 1985). See also Barclay W. Ogden, "Preservation Selection and Treatment Options," in Preservation: A Research Library Priority: Minutes of the 111th Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1987), 38-42. Margaret Child's summary of the condition and use methodology is excellent in "Selection for Preservation," 153-55.
38. Tomer, "Selecting Library Materials for Preservation," 2.
39. Janet Gertz, "Selection Guidelines for Preservation," in Guidelines for Digital Imaging: Papers Given at the Joint National Preservation Office and Research Libraries Group Conference in Warwick 28th-30th Sept. 1998. Available online at: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ gertz.html. See also her more recent article, "Selection for Preservation in the Digital Age: An Overview," Library Resources and Technical Services 44, no. 2 (Apr. 2000): 97-104.
40. Janet Gertz, "Selection Guidelines for Preservation," in Guidelines for Digital Imaging: Papers Given at the Joint National Preservation Office and Research Libraries Group Conference in Warwick 28th-30th Sept. 1998. Available online at: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ gertz.html. See also her more recent article, "Selection for Preservation in the Digital Age: An Overview," Library Resources and Technical Services 44, no. 2 (Apr. 2000): 97-104.
41. Paula De Stefano, "Digitization for Preservation and Access," in Preservation: Issues and Planning (Chicago: ALA, 2000): 307-22. See also Stephen Chapman, Paul Conway, and Anne Kenney, "Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books." Available online at: http://www.clir.org/cpa/ archives/hybridintro.html#full.
42. Paula De Stefano, "Digitization for Preservation and Access," in Preservation: Issues and Planning (Chicago: ALA, 2000): 307-22. See also Stephen Chapman, Paul Conway, and Anne Kenney, "Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books." Available online at: http://www.clir.org/cpa/ archives/hybridintro.html#full.
43. The American Theological Society's serials microfilming project lasted more than twenty years in which "selection seems to have been mainly by consensus among the theological librarians who constituted the Board," see Child, "Selection for Preservation," 148. For the American Philological Association's microfiche project, see Bagnall and Harris, "Involving Scholars in Preservation Decisions: The Case of the Classicists," 140-46, and "Who Will Save the Books? The Case of the Classicists," New Library Scene 6 (Apr. 1987): 17.
44. The American Theological Society's serials microfilming project lasted more than twenty years in which "selection seems to have been mainly by consensus among the theological librarians who constituted the Board," see Child, "Selection for Preservation," 148. For the American Philological Association's microfiche project, see Bagnall and Harris, "Involving Scholars in Preservation Decisions: The Case of the Classicists," 140-46, and "Who Will Save the Books? The Case of the Classicists," New Library Scene 6 (Apr. 1987): 17.
45. The American Theological Society's serials microfilming project lasted more than twenty years in which "selection seems to have been mainly by consensus among the theological librarians who constituted the Board," see Child, "Selection for Preservation," 148. For the American Philological Association's microfiche project, see Bagnall and Harris, "Involving Scholars in Preservation Decisions: The Case of the Classicists," 140-46, and "Who Will Save the Books? The Case of the Classicists," New Library Scene 6 (Apr. 1987): 17.
46. See Mary Summerfield, "Online Books: What Roles Will They Fill for Users of the Academic Library?" 23 Apr. 1999. Available online at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/texts/paper). See also the "Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library," ed. Gregory Crane, Tufts University. Available online at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, July 16, 1999; Entlich, R. et al, "Making a Digital Library: The Contents of the CORE Project," ACM Transactions on Information Systems 15, no. 2 (Apr. 1997): 103-23.
47. See Mary Summerfield, "Online Books: What Roles Will They Fill for Users of the Academic Library?" 23 Apr. 1999. Available online at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/texts/paper). See also the "Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library," ed. Gregory Crane, Tufts University. Available online at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, July 16, 1999; Entlich, R. et al, "Making a Digital Library: The Contents of the CORE Project," ACM Transactions on Information Systems 15, no. 2 (Apr. 1997): 103-23.
48. See Mary Summerfield, "Online Books: What Roles Will They Fill for Users of the Academic Library?" 23 Apr. 1999. Available online at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/texts/paper). See also the "Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library," ed. Gregory Crane, Tufts University. Available online at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, July 16, 1999; Entlich, R. et al, "Making a Digital Library: The Contents of the CORE Project," ACM Transactions on Information Systems 15, no. 2 (Apr. 1997): 103-23.
49. Febvre and Martin, The Coming of the Book, 260.
50. Atkinson, "Selection for Preservation," 346.
51. "Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2," sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration and the Smithsonian Institution. Final draft version: Feb. 18, 1998; announcement number NSF 98-63 (NEW).
52. Summerfield, "Online Books."
53. Paula De Stefano, "Use-based Selection for Preservation Microfilming," College & Research Libraries 56 (Sept. 1995): 409-18.
54. This author queried twenty-five project managers at academic libraries through an informal e-mail survey. Many thanks to those individuals who responded to my questionnaire. Sources used to identify digital projects were: the National Endowment of the Humanities "Top Humanities Web sites" (http://edsitement.neh.gov, 6/24/99); IFLA's IFLANET Web site document, "Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects" (http://www.ifla.org/II/ diglib.htm, 7/16/99); Rutger's "Digital Library Resource Page," 7/16/99; and the University of California, at Berkeley's, SunSITE Hosted Projects (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D, 7/3/99).
55. This author queried twenty-five project managers at academic libraries through an informal e-mail survey. Many thanks to those individuals who responded to my questionnaire. Sources used to identify digital projects were: the National Endowment of the Humanities "Top Humanities Web sites" (http://edsitement.neh.gov, 6/24/99); IFLA's IFLANET Web site document, "Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects" (http://www.ifla.org/II/ diglib.htm, 7/16/99); Rutger's "Digital Library Resource Page," 7/16/99; and the University of California, at Berkeley's, SunSITE Hosted Projects (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D, 7/3/99).
56. This author queried twenty-five project managers at academic libraries through an informal e-mail survey. Many thanks to those individuals who responded to my questionnaire. Sources used to identify digital projects were: the National Endowment of the Humanities "Top Humanities Web sites" (http://edsitement.neh.gov, 6/24/99); IFLA's IFLANET Web site document, "Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects" (http://www.ifla.org/II/ diglib.htm, 7/16/99); Rutger's "Digital Library Resource Page," 7/16/99; and the University of California, at Berkeley's, SunSITE Hosted Projects (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D, 7/3/99).
57. This author queried twenty-five project managers at academic libraries through an informal e-mail survey. Many thanks to those individuals who responded to my questionnaire. Sources used to identify digital projects were: the National Endowment of the Humanities "Top Humanities Web sites" (http://edsitement.neh.gov, 6/24/99); IFLA's IFLANET Web site document, "Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects" (http://www.ifla.org/II/ diglib.htm, 7/16/99); Rutger's "Digital Library Resource Page," 7/16/99; and the University of California, at Berkeley's, SunSITE Hosted Projects (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D, 7/3/99).