For immediate release:
April 18, 2011

For more information, contact:
Sue Baughman
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
sue@arl.org

New Roles for Research Libraries Digital Curation for Preservation Webcast Now Available as Archive

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released an archive of the webcast to complement the recently released report in the New Roles for New Times series, "Digital Curation for Preservation," The webcast, “New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation for Preservation," featured a reactor panel that explored and expanded on key findings and recommendations in the report.

Background

Authored by Tyler Walters and Katherine Skinner, "Digital Curation for Preservation" looks at how libraries are developing new roles and services in the arena of digital curation for preservation. The authors consider a “promising set of new roles that libraries are currently carving out in the digital arena,” describing emerging strategies for libraries and librarians and highlighting collaborative approaches through a series of case studies of key programs and projects. They also provide helpful definitions and offer recommendations for libraries considering how best to make or expand their investments in digital curation. Issues and developments within and across the sciences and humanities are considered. This is the first report in the New Roles for New Times series.

To view the webcast, please visit ARL's YouTube channel.

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/.