I wanted to share this announcement from the Association of Research LIbraries on the release of an excellent new publication on Special Collections and Archives in the Digital Age, which I think will be of very broad interest within the CNI community. It focuses primarily on legal issues, and is relevant both for born-digital materials and physical materials that a memory organization may plan to digitize. You can download a PDF of the entire issue or individual articles here
http://publications.arl.org/rli279/Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
For more information, contact: Judy Ruttenberg Association of Research Libraries 202-296-2296 judy@arl.org?subject=judy@arl.org
Special Collections and Archives in the Digital Age
ARL Releases Pre-Pub of RLI 279
Washington, DC-The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has
released a pre-publication version of
ARL member libraries have embraced digitization-performed in-house or through commercial vendors-as a critical strategy to increase access to their unique collections. This issue of RLI includes a model digitization contract for use with outside vendors, as well as model "deeds of gift" that can secure permission from rights holders to make donated material accessible on the web. Finally, the issue presents a critical essay by Kevin L. Smith, Director of Scholarly Communications at Duke University, on a new way of thinking about copyright and risk management in digitizing special collections.
The complete table of contents with links to the articles follows:
The pre-publication version of Research Library Issues no. 279 (June
2012) is freely available from
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