Format: Self-paced Course
Developed by: WebJunction, in collaboration with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Curation and Scholarship
Length: 1.5 hours
Overview
Describes the importance of preparing for digital collections stewardship, and the key steps to preparation. Leads you through defining digital stewardship goals for your institution and community and helps you to identify
and/or create the library policies and other documentation you’ll need to guide the work. This course will then take you through initial planning questions as you define a digital collection project and how you will accomplish it.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe key steps needed to prepare for digital stewardship
- Document your institutional and community goals for digital stewardship and document them with a Digital Stewardship Purpose Statement
- Identify key policies, forms, and documentation that support digital stewardship, and when to use them
- Identify any initial resourcing, staffing, and stakeholder needs for digital stewardship work
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