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March 4, 3:25 AM
Emotion, Meaning and Digital Collections. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2013-02-28.
by Bill LeFurgy: ...This is an occupational hazard of digital archivists, that awkward first attempt to explain what it is that we do. But there is a bigger issue: if people have trouble understanding what a digital archives is, it means that people have no personal connection with the entire concept. In our culture, personal connection drives support and–apologies for an overused term–sustainability.
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Adding value to digital collections! 
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March 4, 1:26 PM
How to generate pull in domain of archives and collections. . . That is the billion person question, I think? Delete the scoop?
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"I was talking with a friend the other day about how the problems of one library often are not the problems of another."
"Libraries have classically claimed a variety of challenges to collection development and development planning, depending on the institution’s size and type. Outsourced development firms can homogenize a collection. Where development staff are unfamiliar with the demographics of a local usership, a library may incur a wealth of items doomed to be sight unseen, while omitting from its collection materials that are truly valuable to its patrons. Academic research libraries, while attempting to address the information explosion and provide access to increasing research publications, face escalating material costs and associated headaches. Add now fluctuations in the publisher-library relationship, inherent contractual issues regarding downloads, and debate over whether student interest justifies huge expenditures tied to digital collections. It’s at once interesting, concerning, and necessary to look at the varied barriers to collection development and to evaluate how these obstacles have evolved." Delete the scoop?
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By Kathy Ishizuka: The acquisition and management of digital content is becoming increasingly critical. And given their background in collection development, librarians are uniquely suited to assume this task. But there are pitfalls, according to Michelle Luhtala, the department chair of the New Canaan (CT) High School Library. Six concerns about trends in digital collection development: http://mluhtala.blogspot.com/2013/02/six-concerns-about-digital-collection.html
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Digital collecetion development in libraries - the pitfalls! Delete the scoop?
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Quote: “Keep up with the literacies [of social media]…not the technologies”.
Howard Rheingold (2008)
[...] top competencies needed to become a social media-literate librarian." > Very valuable!