Students expect everything they need for their schoolwork to be available digitally. While this expectation has often been criticized, faculty and researchers are also seeing the benefits of large-scale digitization programs in the research and education efforts, particularly in terms of access to and discoverability of primary sources.
David Shankland, Director, Royal Anthropological Institute and Ray Abruzzi, Program Director, Wiley Digital Archives, will speak about the impact of digitization efforts on education and research, and how universities and libraries can position their institutions for leadership roles in this ever-growing landscape.
Key Highlights:
Digitization of primary sources creates new pathways for increased access and positively impacts the discoverability and connections within and across archival collections
Director of Product Management, Wiley Digital Archives, Wiley
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Ray Abruzzi is the publisher for Wiley Digital Archives, a program to digitize the archival holdings of learned societies. Ray has over 20 years’ experience in academic publishing, and has been working for over a decade to make primary sources accessible to students,educators, and researchers, partnering with over 300 libraries, archives, and other institutions around the world to digitize primary source collections. Ray is a senior at Columbia University where he is a member of the Center for Science and Society, the executive editor of the Columbia Journal of History, are search associate on the Making and Knowing project, and a consultant on History Lab.