Primary Research Group has published Creating the Digital Library, 2013 Edition, ISBN 978-1-57440-255-1.

The study looks closely at how seven organizations are digitizing their content. Institutions profile include: Oregon State University; Cornell University; the University of Chicago; the State Archive of Florida; the Museum of Natural History; Rice University; and Backstage Library Works. In detailed profiles based on lengthy interviews of directors of digital resources and other individuals with authority over major digitization efforts, the study details development in content management, marketing, metadata development, collaborations, revenue generation, copyright clearance, use of social media, grants and fundraising, program assessment and metrics, equipment use and acquisition, staff development, preservation, donor management, and other areas of interest to digitizers of content in libraries, higher education, government, and museums. The study looks closely at the emergence of the academic library as a publisher and generator of digital content, not just as a custodian or receptacle. Increasingly, digitizers of content have entered the scholarly and educational mainstream and have propelled their content into prominent positions in their institutions.

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