Triangle Research Libraries Network’s IP Rights Strategy for Digitization of Modern Manuscript Collections and Archival Record Groups

The Triangle Research Libraries Network’s Intellectual Property Rights Strategy for Digitization of Modern Manuscript Collections and Archival Record Groups, January 2011 – Laura Clark Brown, Judy Ruttenberg, and Kevin L. Smith, J.D.

  • “Curated online exhibits have dominated the manuscript and archival digitization projects of academic libraries. These exhibits typically present a small number of selected documents along with a description of each document, transcriptions, and scholarly analysis. An emerging programmatic model – large-scale digitization of manuscript collections and archival record groups―provides online access to entire collections/groups. Given the typical size of modern collections/groups, large-scale digitization cannot support the presentation of the item-level details used in curated online exhibits. This leaner approach to presentation allows for a greater volume of accessible documents. As technology and online applications evolve and the body of materials available online increases, many of these documents will probably be made full-text searchable either by the libraries or by the researchers themselves.”
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