Re: [Cohsl-list] ["EXLIBRIS-L"] New publication: Born-Digital: Guidance for Dealers, Donors, and Repositories

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has published Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories<http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub159>59>. The report provides recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well-being of materials created and managed in digital form ("born digital") that are transferred from donors to archival repositories. Ten archivists and curators from institutions in the United States and United Kingdom collaborated on the report. The lead author, Gabriela Redwine, is digital archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Additional authors are Megan Barnard, of the Harry Ransom Center; Kate Donovan, of the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University; Erika Farr, of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University; Michael Forstrom and Nancy Kuhl, of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; Will Hansen, of Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Jeremy Leighton John, of the Department of Digital Scholarship at the British Library; Seth Shaw, of Clayton State University, and Susan Thomas, of the Bodleian Library’s Western Manuscripts Department. The report is presented in four sections, each of which provides an overview of a key area of concern: initial collection review, privacy and intellectual property, key stages in acquiring digital materials, and post-acquisition review by the repository. Each section concludes with two lists of recommendations: one for donors and dealers, and a second for repository staff. Appendixes provide more specific information about possible staffing activities, as well as a list of resources and ready-to-use checklists that incorporate recommendations from throughout the report. The report is available as a PDF download free of charge at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub159. An earlier draft of the report with capabilities for readers to add comments, questions, and suggestions remains available at http://mcpress.media-commons.org/borndigital/ . Thanks, Will Hansen Assistant Curator of Collections David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Box 90185 Durham, NC 27708-0185 Phone (919) 660-5958 william.hansen(a)duke.edu