Digital Collections Stewardship 3: Gathering

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Overview Describes the considerations when determining guidelines for the items that will be included in your digital collections, the appraisal and accessioning process, and sourcing items for your collections from partner organizations and community members. The training is organized around our five stage digital stewardship lifecycle model. This course covers the Gather stage. Other courses cover Prepare, Enhance, Save, and Share. The training encourages a community-based and culturally informed approach to digital collections stewardship throughout the lifecycle stages. We recognize that your communities and organizations have unique needs, and we encourage you to customize policies, tools, activities and goals based on your community, culture, organizational structure, and language(s). In each course, we highlight opportunities for identifying and responding to these needs. We call these opportunities Cultural Checks.   Learning Objectives After successfully completing this course, you will be able to: Determine the types of items to include in your institution's digital collections. Select suitable methods to gather digital collections. Document your decisions in your collection development policy and digitization selection criteria (if applicable). Identify any collaboration or partnership opportunities for gathering collections and items. Incorporate cultural and community needs in collection curation decisions.

Tips for success with this training

We’ve compiled some tips to help you get the most out of this program and increase the success of your digital projects.

Taking this course

Follow the steps below to complete this course:

1. Download the Digital Collections Stewardship Workbook 3: Gathering

   This editable workbook contains the activities for the course module. In the course module, you will be directed to the workbook to complete a digital collections initial planning task. The completed workbooks from each course combine to make an action plan for your digital collections stewardship implementation. Activities will refer to, and build on, the activities in previous courses, so please, keep this workbook if you intend to take further courses in the series. If you have not completed course 2 Preparing, also download Workbook 2.

 

2. Complete the Course Module

   The Digital Stewardship 3: Gathering module (available below) will take about 2 hours to complete, including the activities using the Digital Collections Stewardship Workbook.

Course Resources

Gathering Course Handouts

A zipped package of all the downloadable handouts from the course module.

Gathering Course External Links

All the web links from the course module, plus additional resources for Gathering course topics (this is also in the handouts package above).

Digital Collections Stewardship Resources

Additional resources related to the Digital Collections Resources course series.

About the Digital Collections Stewardship Practitioners

You’ll meet several practitioners during the Digital Collections Stewardship course series. Read their introductions and learn more about their communities and their digital collections work.

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