1. Melissa I. Cardenas-Dow
Outreach/Reference Librarian
May 7, 2012
UIUC GSLIS – LIS590DCL, Assignment #4
DIGITAL CURATION @
ARMACOST LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS

2. Agenda
Background
 What is Digital Curation?
 Why does it matter?
This means (3 areas of) digital services and a
digital infrastructure
 Digital Infrastructure: Institutional Repository
 Digital Service: Preservation
 Digital Service: Access
 Digital Service: Publication

3. What is Digital Curation?
“Digital curation, broadly interpreted, is about
maintaining and adding value to a trusted
body of digital information for current and
future use.”
(A. Gold, 2010, quoting Data Curation Centre, “What is
Digital Curation,” 2007; my emphases)

4. Why does this matter?
Current indicators and future trends point to
digital assets management as the future of
academic libraries.
 Acquisition of hyper-local materials, digitization (ACRL
2010, p. 286)
 Crisis in subscription model of scholarly, academic
publication (Staley & Malenfant, 2010, p. 18)
 Campus-based cyberinfrastructure leads to renewed
investment in re-learning (Gold, 2010, p. 14)

5. What is Digital Curation?
Pt. 2

6. Digital Infrastructure:
Institutional Repository
“A repository must be necessary to be
successful. Context allows both the institution
and individuals to see how a repository can
support initiatives that are important to them.
Creating (or identifying) context is key to both
implementation and sustainability.”
(Gilman, 2012)

7. Digital Services

8. Digital Service:
Preservation

9. Digital Services:
Preservation, Pt. 2

10. Digital Service: Access

11. Digital Service: Publication

12. Thank you!
Melissa Cardenas-Dow
Outreach/Reference Librarian
Armacost Library, University of Redlands
melissa_cardenasdow@redlands.edu
909.748.8089