Terry Reese - Doing Your Homework and Building for Success: Determining the Library's Role in Providing Digital Curation Services

As many libraries discovered, creating new services for faculty and staff, like the institutional repository, didn't necessitate success.  While IR efforts focused on the benefits of open access and capturing an institutions research capital, by and large, IR projects remain a solution to a problem that few care to have solved.  As such, many IR efforts around the country have languished, and even those that have been deemed successful, generally are successful only when measured against other IR efforts.  As libraries begin to wade into the even murkier waters of digital curation, how do we determine what role, if any, the library should play.  And how do we learn from our previous experiences with IR development, to create solutions that solve problems currently facing researchers.  This talk will try to provide context for these questions and discuss observations and outcomes when these questions were posed to researchers at Oregon State University.

Terry Reese is the Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services at Oregon State University (OSU) overseeing the development and implementation of new strategic initiatives for the Libraries.  He is the author of a number of metadata related software packages and libraries like MarcEdit, a MARC/XML metadata software suite and the C# OAI Harvesting package.  He is a regular speaker and national library forums and has published a number of works on library metadata issues, including a recent book with Kyle Banerjee entitled, Building Digital Libraries: a how-to-do-it manual (http://www.amazon.com/Building-Digital-Libraries-How-do/dp/1555706177/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216684044&sr=8-1).