New roles for librarians: Custodians or digital asset managers

This paper attempts to analyse the convergence roles of librarian and digital asset management in the contemporary information environment. The key components of Digital Asset Management have been defined by van Niekerk, one of the key commentators on the subject, as all of those tasks needed to all...

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Published in2015 4th International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services pp. 207 - 210
Main Author Gartner, Richard
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.2015
Subjects
Asset management
Convergence
Digital asset management
Digital objects
Educational institutions
Librarianship
Libraries
Media
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ISBN9781479979998
1479979996
DOI10.1109/ETTLIS.2015.7048199

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Summary:This paper attempts to analyse the convergence roles of librarian and digital asset management in the contemporary information environment. The key components of Digital Asset Management have been defined by van Niekerk, one of the key commentators on the subject, as all of those tasks needed to allow the ingest, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets. This paper will particularly look to Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science and subsequent attempts to re-write them for the digital age as the conceptual framework within which such an analysis can take place. By examining the core principles on which library science is built, it is argued that the principles of digital asset management are firmly embedded within these and that an overlap and ever-increasing convergence between the two disciplines is inevitable.
ISBN:9781479979998
1479979996
DOI:10.1109/ETTLIS.2015.7048199