Digital Preservation in Libraries

Jeremy Myntti is head of digital library services at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. This position allows him the opportunity to supervise faculty and staff who are converting content from analog to digital, creating and maintaining the metadata for digital collections, and preserving the library’s digital assets. He also works closely with developers to create the systems and tools necessary for making the library’s digital assets available. Prior to this position, he was head of cataloging and metadata services and the ILS administrator for the University of Utah Libraries. He received his MLIS degree from the University of Alabama and has undergraduate degrees in music and business management from Utah Valley University.Jessalyn Zoom is head of the History and Military Science Section in the Acquisition and Bibliographic Access Directorate at the Library of Congress. She was formerly acting BIBCO program coordinator for the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), a consortium that influences metadata best practices and provides training to members worldwide. Through her work in the PCC, she developed cataloging expertise and served as a trainer. Zoom holds an MLS degree as well as an MA in Asian studies, both from the University of Iowa. Her areas of interest are in workflow efficiency and competency in technical services.

• Introduction, by Jeremy Myntti and Jessalyn Zoom Part I History and Theories: What Is Digital Preservation? Chapter 1 A Brief History of Digital Preservation, by Erin Baucom Chapter 2 Digital Preservation as a Thought Experiment, by Ross Spencer Part II Frameworks, Strategies, and Systems Chapter 3 Digital Preservation Policy and Strategy: Where Do I Start? by Christine Madsen and Megan Hurst Chapter 4 Sustaining the Digital Investment: A Review of Digital Preservation Strategies, by Rosy Jan Chapter 5 Defining Your Strategy for Digitizing Materials, by Camilla Tubbs and Angela Fang Wang Chapter 6 “So Many Options, So Little Time”: How to Evaluate a Digital Preservation System That Is Right for Your Institution, by Angela Fritz Chapter 7 Digital Preservation Should Be More Holistic: A Digital Stewardship Approach, by Somaya Langley Part III Digital Preservation in Individual Institutions Chapter 8 Planning and Implementing Digital Preservation at the Miami University Libraries, by Ashley Jones and Eric Johnson Chapter 9 “What Were We Thinking?” Successes and Lessons Learned after Going Live with Our Digital Preservation Program, by Tawnya Mosier Keller and Jeremy Myntti Part IV Digital Preservation of Specific Material Types Chapter 10 A Perfect Ingest: Examining Our Assumptions of an Optimal Digital Ingest, by Leigh Rosin Chapter 11 Digital Bibliodiversity at Scholars Portal: Bridging Standards and Practices for E-Books Preservation, by Grant Hurley Chapter 12 Mobile Device Data Preservation for Cultural Heritage Institutions, by Amanda May Part V Collaborative Efforts in Digital Preservation Chapter 13 LOCKSS Networks: Community-Based Digital Preservation, by Aaron Trehub, Corey Davis, Mark Jordan, Cinda May, and Sam Meister Chapter 14 Could Collaborative Research between Two Major Libraries Help Consolidate Digital Preservation and Break the “Project Cycle”? by Edith Halvarsson, Sarah Mason, Lee Pretlove, David Gerrard, Somaya Langley, and James Mooney Chapter 15 In Medias Res: An Examination of Work in Progress at the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) Consortium, by R. F. (Chip) German and Kara M. McClurken Chapter 16 Networked Approaches to Preservation: Learning from Collaborative Digital Preservation Efforts, by Moriah Neils Caruso, Simon O’Riordan, Erin Wolfe, Liz Woolcott, Jennifer Mullins, and Drew Krewer Part VI Digital Preservation and Copyright Chapter 17 Copyright Conundrums: Rights Issues in the Digitization of Library Collections, by Sara R. Benson Chapter 18 Copyright and Digital Preservation: Legal and Administrative Issues, by Carla S. Myers Appendix A: A Framework for Analyzing Copyright and Digitization Questions About the Contributors Index