Category Archives: archives

Research data management, an emerging role for academic libraries

26 March 2009 – 6:32 am

The capture and storage of research data, and its preservation over time, is an emerging challenge for universities and other research institutions.
The University Library has a leading role in establishing standards, procedures and services to help researchers preserve their original data. We were therefore delighted to meet Robin Rice, who visited this month.
In a meeting [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Also posted in collaboration, hr, implementation 2009, knowledge transfer, library management systems, publishing, repositories, research | Comments (0)

Grants for history scholars

17 March 2009 – 6:14 am

Call for applications: grants for research into the history of the University of Melbourne.

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Comments (0)

Measuring a cultural institution

28 July 2008 – 6:49 am

The BBC has in many ways pushed the adoption and acceptance of the Internet in the UK. For example, it is required to provide a public whole-of-web search engine that takes users to non-BBC web sites.
Here are a few factoids that illustrate how the impact of a cultural institution like the BBC might be measured.
The [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Also posted in knowledge transfer | Comments (0)

UK inventory of repositories and archives

7 February 2008 – 6:17 am

JISC has conducted an inventory of non-commercial digital repositories & archives — when you get to the JISC site, scroll to the foot of the page for links to the final report. (Tip o’ the hat to Library Intelligencer for this link.)

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Also posted in repositories | Comments (1)