Posted on behalf of my friend and colleague Eve Sinaiko. I will happily forward any responses to the list to her. Her question is one that I believe applies to many small institutions.
At the Jewish Museum we have a small curatorial library and limited resources for maintaining it. (To give you a sense of current resources: our little library still uses a card catalogue.)
We're beginning to acquire publications that are digital-only--mostly journal subscriptions, but also, now, ebooks. We're thinking through the best way to download and preserve ebooks--where should they live on the server, how should they be catalogued, how we can best make a single download available to our curatorial staff, and of course what protocols we should be putting in place for data migration.
Any suggestions, recommendations, places we should look would be very helpful. As I am not an ARLIS member, if appropriate, I would be grateful for direct email responses.
Many thanks.
csundt(at)mindspring(dot)com or
csundt(at)gmail(dot)com
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