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Digital Library Center Advisory Committee

The Digital Library Center focuses the Libraries' development of digital on-line collections, archived and accessible as part of the University Libraries’ permanent holdings.  The Center provides library and university researchers with electronic texts scanned from library, archival and museum collections.  These are indexed and marked-up for intuitive and effective use in instruction, distance education, and scholarly research.  Enhancement of the Libraries' role in electronic scholarly communications is a primary goal, reached through effective and responsive digitization, dissemination, and long-term storage of research and resource materials from the Libraries' collections.

CHARGE

The Advisory Committee is charged with advising the Center as it defines and implements goals, objectives and performance measures.  In particular, the Committee provides guidance in:

  • Development of productive partnerships with individuals and groups at University of Florida, as well as the academic and business community beyond the University;
  • Effective methods for profiling collections for digitization and identification of funding opportunities for digitization projects; and
  • Effective programs for marketing and distributing digital products and their offprints.

The Committee also reviews the Center’s implementation of:

  • Standards-based services and production, with specific attention to criteria for selection, development, and use & testing; and
  • Quality assurance in capture or conversion, and value-added enhancement through indexing or mark-up, together with long-term storage and maintenance of digital collections.

And, it is responsible for production of an annual report, detailing its activities in support of this charge.

REPORTING

The Advisory Committee reports to the Director of the Digital Library Center who is responsible to the Director of University Libraries, working in collaboration with the Libraries’ division directors for Collections, Reference, Technical, and Support Services.

MEMBERSHIP

Membership brings together seven faculty in research, teaching, and technical service who use library, archival and museum collections for research and teaching.  Members are selected, from nominations submitted from the University community, by the Director of the Digital Library Center in consultation with the Libraries’ other directors.  Members are selected on the basis of their knowledge and use of digital resources.  Appointments are for staggered terms of two years, with the possibility of reappointment.  Technical service advisors, due to the nature of their positions, may have permanent appointments.  The Committee appoints its own chair, who serves for a term of one year, with the possibility of reappointment.

MEETING SCHEDULE

The Advisory Committee meets in May/June of each year to finalize the annual report and to target goals and objectives for the coming fiscal year.  It meets quarterly, on a schedule determined by the Committee, to assesses progress toward goals and review outcomes. Minutes of meetings are submitted via email and on the Digital Library Center’s website.

The Digital Library Center provides the Committee with monthly reports, project statistics and brief narrative updates via email and on the Digital Library Center’s website.

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