We just received the same item two days ago! I'm curious if you included
any instructions on where the content was? I noticed that it was
somewhat buried in a submissions folder (with many other extraneous
folders), and not necessarily intuitive for a user to find. . .
Rebecca Martinez
Distributed Technical Services Coordinator/Serials Team Leader
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From: "Andree Rathemacher" <andree@URI.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 5:30:21 PM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Processing flash drive and other 'born digital' items
I'll keep my extended comments on the ASIST flash drive situation to myself for the sake of decorum, but here's what we did at URI:
We took a small, heavy cardboard pamphlet binder and stuck a plastic CD-ROM pocket inside the back cover. We placed the flash drive in the pocket. We stuck a small label on the flash drive itself, then we labeled the pamphlet binder like any other print item and stuck it on the shelf.
As I said in a message to our EBSCO rep, it's a bit ironic that the American Society for Information Science and Technology does not have an online hosted solution for their proceedings.
Good luck!
andree
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Christopher Koehler
<c-koeh@umn.edu> wrote:
We have been receiving the "American Society for Information Science and Technology. Meeting. Proceedings of the..." in CD format since the 2005 proceedings; however, we have just received the 2010 proceedings and they are on a Flash Drive. According to the list of proceedings for sale at http://www.asis.org/Publications/bookstore/proceedings.html the Flash Drive is the only option listed so it appears that no CD is available for 2010.
Some time ago, the International Association for Great Lakes Research sent us the Abstracts of the 51st (2008) meeting on a flash drive and we are still wrestling with how to process that, so I'd like to ask for feedback on how other libraries handled that item and/or how they are planning on processing the flash drive for the 2010 ASIST Proceedings.
On a more general note our library has convened a committee to discuss processing and archiving items born digitally such as these flash drives, emailed newsletters or proceedings, or items put up on a public website for a limited time that we might want in our collection. Issues that have come up in the discussions include making sure fair use is not violated, what items should be preserved and added to the catalog and the best practices for archiving digital resources. At this point we would like to get feedback from other libraries as to how they're tackling these issues.
You can either send your responses directly to the Listserv or to me personally at
c-koeh@umn.edu
Thanks!
Chris
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