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Going in Reverse to Go Forward: Institutional Repositories and the New York Public Library

Explore the institutional repositories at the New York Public Library (NYPL) and the challenges they face in funding, terminology, data maintenance, and more. Learn how OCLC can assist in implementing and managing these repositories effectively. Discover the historical treasures digitized by NYPL and the potential of d-space for preserving knowledge.

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Going in Reverse to Go Forward: Institutional Repositories and the New York Public Library

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  1. Going in Reverse to Go Forward:Institutional Repositories and the New York Public Library Stewart Bodner OCLC Members Council May 25, 2004

  2. The New York Public Library Background: • Maintains a research collection in four Centers: The Humanities and Social Sciences Library The Science Industry Business Library The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The Library for Performing Arts • Maintains a circulating collection in eighty-five Branch Libraries

  3. The New York Public Library is a privately managed, non-profit corporation The President of the Library reports to a Board of Trustees. There is a Director of the Research Libraries as well as a Director of the Branch Libraries.

  4. The Library’s Role as an Institutional Repository • to take advantage of digital space to foster scholarship • to develop a culture of automating in-house web-based products including portions of the Library’s digital program • to digitize the extensive records of the NYPL in a deep archive

  5. The NYPL does not have: a faculty a student body a controlled population a source of theses, dissertations, papers, pre-prints, courseware, syllabi, etc.

  6. The NYPL does have: Institutional records of great historical value including: annual reports, memoranda and handwritten notes of NYPL libraries dating back to the 1890’s papers of former directors including John Shaw Billings (in sixty cartons) construction documents including blueprints and drawings for NYPL buildings

  7. Audio and video recordings including public programs in many formats Official publications of the Library 500,000 digital images

  8. The NYPL, for most of its history, was not user-driven. • In fact, for most of its history, the Library staff presumed that “current use does not constitute value.” • The “deep archive” allows us to reconsider this presumption as we deliberate over the use of an institutional repository in d-space.

  9. The New York Times published an article on May 11, 2004 titled:“In Back Pages, A Vivid History” Information for this story was acquired through the NYPL archives. The story discusses the history of the Seward Park Branch, a branch rich in ethnic New York history

  10. Seward Park Branch

  11. Challenges to IR’s at the NYPLChallenges to IR’s at the NYPL funding opaque terminology director-level decisions maintenance and migration of data lack of standards rights issues access issues preserving confidentiality

  12. How OCLC can help: • Provide simple mechanisms to implementation of IR’s • establish realistic standards for creating material with d-space potential • develop life-cycle management systems for maintenance and migration of data • assist in advocacy efforts to fund pilot projects

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