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Subject: New publication: "Born Digital: Guidance for
Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories"
Date:   Fri, 4 Jan 2013 08:43:25 -0500
From:   Will Hansen <[log in to unmask]>



I'm pleased to announce to the Ex-Libris community the publication of
"Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories"
at MediaCommons Press, available at
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/borndigital/.  A
collaborative effort of archivists and curators at six institutions, the
guide "offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and
intellectual well being of born-digital materials transferred from
donors to archival repositories" (from the introduction).

"Born Digital" has been published at MediaCommons in part because its
authors hope that it represents a site for conversation about
born-digital materials among dealers in rare books, manuscripts, and
archives, archivists and curators, potential donors of such materials,
educators, students, and others.  The MediaCommons interface offers the
capability to comment on each section of the document.  The authors
encourage commenting on any section of the report, and look forward to
discussion and questions.

Will Hansen

Assistant Curator of Collections

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Duke University

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