APPENDIX D
Other ACLS-CLIR Projects
- Survey digitization projects which are bringing retrospective
material for humanists and social scientists to the Web; update
the survey continuously; publish the results of the survey with
hyperlinks from abstracts to appropriate Web pages.
- Survey research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences
for innovative uses of information technology; update the survey
continuously; publish the results of the survey with hyperlinks
from abstracts to appropriate Web pages.
- Survey fixed population of independent research libraries (Independent
Research Library Association), university and national research
libraries (Association of Research Libraries), and college libraries
(Oberlin Group) for innovative uses of information technology in
presenting metadata, and for innovative discovery and retrieval
techniques and search engines; update the survey continuously;
publish the results of the survey with hyperlinks from abstracts
to appropriate Web pages; promote adoption of best practices and
tools.
- Commission study on divergence and convergence in library collections;
perform statistically reliable survey of OCLC and RLG databases
to measure replication of titles; analyze reports of special collecting
in library literature for evidence of change in collecting patterns
and rate of accession of special collections; promote collecting
programs with unique targets.
- Based on projects (1) – (4), identify redundant and similar
efforts; publish report on redundancy and promote coordination
of unique projects.
- Promote EAD projects, particularly those of RLG.
- Continue work with other national organizations on long-term
preservation of archival copies of digital information resources;
commission articles for newspaper publication on archiving the
Internet in order to achieve wider recognition of the preservation
and archiving issues.
- Promote serious consideration of the e-print archive programs
for more fields in STM and for the humanities and social sciences;
commission a study of the impact of such programs on disciplines.
- Persuade NEH and other funding agencies to continue investing
in finding aids and bibliographic projects; consider divergence
of some of these projects from MARC and even EAD formats and guidelines
for the sake of experimenting with intellectual access in new and
perhaps more cost-effective modes.
- Commission a study on training and support programs targeting
faculty and teaching assistants in the use of technology in teaching
and research; publish the study on the Web with links; update continuously.
- Solicit articles and commentary from scholars on how libraries support or hinder research today.
