Amy H. Chen, English and Communication Librarian at the University of
Iowa, loves to talk about digital archives. It may not sound like the
most exciting or pressing topic in the world to the uninitiated, but
librarians like Chen know that creating and preserving access to older
works is an increasingly central part of their role – especially in this
time of misinformation and deliberate disregard for scientific
knowledge.
“I do think there’s a growing need for archival
material,” Chen told us. And with that need new challenges arise for
librarians. “It’s now assumed that everything is on the web, but folks
need to be taught what it takes to make those resources available, why
it’s a project that will never end, and how to critically read digital
archival representations versus working with the real thing.” As young
researchers and students are now taking the existence of digitized
archive material for granted, the teaching of what Chen and other
librarians call “information literacy” is becoming more and more
important. ... [mehr] https://blog.degruyter.com/why-digital-archives-matter-to-librarians-and-researchers/
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