Digital Collections Stewardship 2: Preparing

This course describes the importance of preparing for digital collections stewardship, and the key steps to preparation including defining digital stewardship goals, documenting guidelines, and initial project planning questions.

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Overview Describes the importance of preparing for digital collections stewardship, and the key steps to preparation. Leads you through defining digital stewardship goals for your institution and community and helps you to identify and/or create the library policies you’ll need to guide the work. This course will then take you through initial planning questions as you define a digital collection project and how you will accomplish it. The training is organized around our five stage digital stewardship lifecycle model. This course covers the Prepare stage. Other courses cover Gather, 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: Describe key steps needed to prepare for digital stewardship. Document institutional and community goals for digital stewardship and document them with a Digital Stewardship Purpose Statement. Identify key policies, forms, and documentation that support digital stewardship, and when to use them. Identify any initial resourcing, staffing, and stakeholder needs for digital stewardship work.

Overview

Describes the importance of preparing for digital collections stewardship, and the key steps to preparation. Leads you through defining digital stewardship goals for your institution and community and helps you to identify and/or create the library policies you’ll need to guide the work. This course will then take you through initial planning questions as you define a digital collection project and how you will accomplish it.

The training is organized around our five stage digital stewardship lifecycle model. This course covers the Prepare stage. Other courses cover Gather, 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:

Describe key steps needed to prepare for digital stewardship.
Document institutional and community goals for digital stewardship and document them with a Digital Stewardship Purpose Statement.
Identify key policies, forms, and documentation that support digital stewardship, and when to use them.
Identify any initial resourcing, staffing, and stakeholder needs for digital stewardship work.

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:

Download the Digital Collections Stewardship Workbook 2: Preparing

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.

Complete the Course Module

The Digital Stewardship 2: Preparing module (available below) will take about 1.5 hours to complete, including the activities using the Digital Collections Stewardship Workbook.

Course Resources

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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In this collection

Digital Collections Stewardship Course Series
- Digital Collections Stewardship 1: Introduction
- Digital Collections Stewardship 2: Preparing
- Digital Collections Stewardship 3: Gathering