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Beverly Turner, chair; Carl Jones, Mikki Simon Macdonald, Jennifer Morris, Craig Thomas, Ann Marie Willer
Charge:
Reporting to the AMES Co-Head for Metadata and Enterprise Systems, the Digital Operations Team is responsible for the oversight, coordination, and integration of the functions and services used to create, manage, and provide access to curated digital library collections.
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- Collection development policies apply equally to both physical and digital collections. Collection Managers and Subject Specialists should feel confident selecting content for digital projects using their existing guidelines for physical items.
- Candidates for digitization might include the following:** items with unique content** items with content that is applicable to the MIT curriculum** items that have MIT-specific access requirements
- items in fragile condition
- items for which there is current or anticipated heavy use
- materials in the DDC collection
- items which would be easier to use or for which use would be enhanced if presented online
- items associated with “triggers” such as an academic department’s anniversary
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