Vanderbilt-led effort to build new digital environments receives Mellon grant | News | Vanderbilt University
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Projects being examined include the HathiTrust, the Digital Public Library of America, and the Digital Preservation Network, among others. 'We are now ready to turn toward concrete planning,' Dowell said. 'In collaboration with the Council on Library and Information Resources, we will continue to inform our strategic plan and create a five-year roadmap of achievable goals.' The committee includes university presidents, provosts, deans, university librarians and association leaders. One of the founding members, the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences, has been awarded a grant from the foundation to support 10 'iFellows' in tandem with the grant to Vanderbilt. The fellows at the University of Pittsburgh will supplement the work of the committee with independent dissertation research. These grants and their work will allow the committee to analyze emerging national-scale digital projects and their potential to help transform higher education in terms of scholarly productivity, teaching, cost efficiency and sustainability ..."