{"id":206,"date":"2011-11-09T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T19:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/digitallibrary\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:39:08","slug":"collection-development-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/digitallibrary\/about\/collection-development-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection Development Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Objectives<\/h2>\n<p>The mission of the digital initiatives at Vassar College is to support the creation, dissemination, and preservation of selected digital content resources within the Libraries and the College.\u00a0 In establishing a collection development policy for digital collections, we establish criteria consistent with this mission and its goals.<\/p>\n<p>Our goals in collecting include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Providing access<\/strong> to high-quality digital content generated by the Libraries for research and study, as open as possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supporting<\/strong> the teaching, learning, and research needs of the College.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preserving<\/strong> at-risk or fragile physical collections through digitization, or at-risk born-digital collections through reformatting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposing <\/strong>hidden, less-used physical collections through access to digital surrogates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fostering <\/strong>experimental, cutting-edge, and innovative projects through technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Subjects and Collecting Level<\/h2>\n<h3>Subjects<\/h3>\n<p>We adhere to the general parameters and core strengths established in Vassar College Libraries\u2019 Collection Development Policy, noting particularly that a strong liberal arts education requires complementary digital collections that are exceptionally deep and expansive in order to provide a foundation for the instructional activities of the college.\u00a0 Subjects that are in support of the curriculum have higher priority in digitization and access, but no subject is specifically excluded.<\/p>\n<h3>Collecting level<\/h3>\n<p>Generally, we seek to collect and digitize materials that are at the Advanced Study Level as defined in the ALA <em>Guidelines for the Formulation of Collection Development Policies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Formats Collected<\/h2>\n<p>Analog (chiefly slides, print photographs, audio, <span style=\"color: #000000\">video<\/span>, and text) and born-digital items, as defined by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and the Vassar Digital Initiatives Mission Statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Rights and Restrictions<\/h2>\n<p>Collecting activities will focus on content that can be freely shared in order to provide the broadest access possible.<\/p>\n<h2>Selection and Deselection<\/h2>\n<p>Selection and deselection of digital content will be determined by the Digital Library Steering Committee.\u00a0 We make a commitment to retaining as much content as possible in its original digital format, although some reformatting may take place by necessity.\u00a0 See &#8220;Selection Factors&#8221; and &#8220;Deselection Factors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Selection Factors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Copyright status\n<ul>\n<li>Our preference is to digitize materials in which Vassar owns the rights or the items are no longer held in copyright.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Significance of the materials\n<ul>\n<li>Inherently subjective, we still must ask ourselves about the importance of the materials that will be digitized.\n<ul>\n<li>Do the materials meet all goals of collecting?<\/li>\n<li>Would experts agree as to the materials\u2019 significance?<\/li>\n<li>Would digitization enhance intellectual value by contributing to the scholarly record or curriculum?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Current and potential users\n<ul>\n<li>Including preservation impact<\/li>\n<li>Value-added possibilities because of digitization\n<ul>\n<li>For example, a text corpus may benefit significantly from visualization, full text searching, or other critical functions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Collections that contain subjects of supreme strength at Vassar (core collections)<\/li>\n<li>Collections about Vassar \/ Vassariana<\/li>\n<li>Rare and unique items held by Vassar College and its Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Potential to digitize an entire collection rather than piecemeal<\/li>\n<li>Provides opportunity to build upon other digital materials in the scholarly record<\/li>\n<li>Collections that have funding or offer potential to attract development opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Significant demand by Vassar constituents<\/li>\n<li>Exit strategy possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>N.B.: All potential digital collections are subject to funding available to properly catalog, preserve, and house the materials.<\/p>\n<h3>Deselection Factors<\/h3>\n<p>Note that we define &#8220;deselection&#8221; to mean removal of access copies of the collection.\u00a0 Preservation copies adhere to the level of commitment we make as an institution when we accept a digital project.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Items become too costly to maintain over time because significant purchase of equipment is needed to access or reformat them.<\/li>\n<li>Access copies receive little use (preservation copies will still be retained).<\/li>\n<li>Security flaws are discovered in items after breach has occurred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Digitization Standards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Metadata standard:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/standards\/mods\/\">MODS (Metadata Object Description Standard)<\/a> for most works.\u00a0 In some cases, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vraweb.org\/projects\/vracore4\/\">VRACore<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/dublincore.org\/\"> Qualified Dublin Core (QDC)<\/a> may be necessary to better describe an object.\u00a0 We seek to preserve as much of the metadata as possible &#8212; with a goal of all metadata preserved &#8212; should the need to arise to convert to QDC (a &#8220;lossless&#8221; metadata crosswalk process).<\/li>\n<li>Imaging standards:\n<ul>\n<li>Storage: TIFF<\/li>\n<li>Access \/ derivatives: JPG and JP2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Audio and video standards \u2013 TBD<\/li>\n<li>Access standards\n<ul>\n<li>Whenever possible, access is available to the widest possible audience<\/li>\n<li>All digital collections will be cataloged into Vassar\u2019s online catalog<\/li>\n<li>Select digital collections may be contributed to various digital collections as determined by the Digital Library Steering Committee (HRVH, LC, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>December 13, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives The mission of the digital initiatives at Vassar College is to support the creation, dissemination, and preservation of selected digital content resources within the Libraries and the College.\u00a0 In establishing a collection development policy for digital collections, we establish criteria consistent with this mission and its goals. 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