In the last few weeks, I was asked to write a small paragraph explaining my area to others in the library. I was happy to do this, as many people say they don’t know what my people do. It’s sometimes hard to explain to others what we do without going into overtly technical topics and terms. If we have done our job right, we’re practically invisible, which is the way it should be. Anyway, writing the description made me realize why there is often a mis-match between what we do and what people think we do. I’ll let you read the description yourself. I’ve underlined the important bit. “Digital Resources is primarily an Open Access publisher. We publish both born digital items (produced by students or faculty), and we scan to publish or republish old items. We curate digital collections through the whole digital life-cycle. Our work is a bit different from other departments because the more work we finish; the more work we create in having to m...
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