Hello,
I'm looking for some advice please! In special collections we are
currently trying to decide what to do with digital records. After a
preliminary meeting we came up with some ideas of where to store the
records securely. However, we're not sure of the best way to make these
records accessible to researchers when they see these records described
on our catalogue (without publishing the records themselves on the
internet). Would anyone be willing to share how they currently produce
digital records for their researchers to use, or how they plan to in the
future?
Possibilities/issues we've been discussing have included:
Issuing CDs (or other media) in the searchroom with read-only copies, or
having a dedicated computer in the search room with copies of the
records on the hard-drive.
Using CALM or the University's digital asset repository, with access
only in the search room.
Using the digital repository (not sure if possible with CALM?) to
provide remote access (through some sort of password system where the
user would have to register for a password which would allow them access
to copies of our 'open' records).
How to prevent/manage unauthorised copying/printing of digital records
(especially if accessed remotely).
How to generate user statistics (researchers currently fill out slips to
order material from our archive room).
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Eleanor Possart
Special Collections, Oxford Brookes University
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