Dear Colleagues
An early morning Thursday read.
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Ingrid Thomson
Subject Librarian: Humanities Information Division
Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
University of Cape Town Libraries
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Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)
From: Heidi McGregor [mailto:Heidi.McGregor@ithaka.org]
Sent: 30 January 2013 05:34 PM
To: 'scholcomm@ala.org'
Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Sustaining Our Digital Future - Latest Report from Ithaka S+R and Jisc-led Strategic Content Alliance
Librarians and others on this list involved in the creation, preservation, and sustainability of digital projects on campuses and in museums and archives may find this new report by Ithaka S+R of interest: “Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content.”
The report sheds light on common challenges associated with sustaining digital projects beyond implementation and provides guidance and tools to help administrators, project leaders, librarians, and funders ensure that projects continue to grow. Taking a close look at three institutions in the United Kingdom, our research highlights how fragmented the digital landscape is at universities and other organizations, how little the topic of post-build sustainability comes up at the higher levels of administration, and, as a result, just how much risk is present and felt in the current system.
There are recommendations and a Sustainability Health Check Tool for Digital Content Projects to help people take the pulse of projects and ascertain what the projects could use to be even more successful.
This work was funded by the Jisc-led Strategic Content Alliance (SCA). Additional projects in this area are also under way with funding by the Canadian Heritage Information Network and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
We hope you find this work useful, and we welcome your questions and insights. Please contact us at info@sr.ithaka.org.
Heidi McGregor
VP, Marketing & Communications
ITHAKA
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
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