Digital Infrastructures that Embody Library Principles: The IMLS National Digital Platform as a Framework for Digital Library Tools and Services | 2018 | Institute of Museum and Library Services
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Summary:
book chapter; authors: Trevor Owens, Ashley E. Sands, Emily Reynolds, James Neal, Stephen Mayeaux, and Maura Marx
"Digital library infrastructures must not simply work. They must also manifest the core principles of libraries and archives. Since 2014, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has engaged with stakeholders from diverse library communities to consider collaborative approaches to building digital library tools and services. The “national digital platform” for libraries, archives, and museums is the framework that resulted from these dialogs. One key feature of the national digital platform (NDP) is the anchoring of core library principles within the development of digital tools and services. This essay explores how NDP-funded projects enact library principles as part of the national framework.
The NDP represents the combination of software applications, social and technical infrastructures, and staff expertise that provide digital content, collections, and services to users. As libraries, archives, and museums increasingly provide expansive access to digital information, opportunities increase for collaboration around the tools and services libraries employ to meet user needs. Each cultural institution around the country can leverage and benefit from shared digital services and systems. A focus on building and supporting collective infrastructures is a key element of much NDP work; another critical aspect of this work is ensuring those tools, services, and systems exemplify the core principles of librarianship...."
related slide presentation, 2017: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_IMLS_National_Digital_Platform_Principles_Librarianship_and_Digital_Infrastructures/5693182