Enhanced data monitoring features allow access made via various channels, such as voice, SMS or Internet, to be assigned to individual users even with
CLIR activated.
van Gent discussed the problems of selling
CLIR products.
Charles Henry, President of
CLIR, said: "Our partnership with Qatar National Library marks a pivotal turn for the Digital Library of the Middle East.
The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship," is posted online at the
CLIR website; print copies will be available soon.
The issue of authenticity of digital objects and records has been addressed by several professional groups, from archivists and librarians to technologists and legal experts, though there remain a number of unresolved issues about how to verify through objective means whether or not a digital file is what it purports to be (Bearman and Trant, 1998;
CLIR, 2000; InterPARES).
Daniel Greenstein,
CLIR, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036
Assesses whether the recommendations from the
CLIR report2 have been delivered through the DiD2 projects and are likely to be met through DiD3 and its current cohort of projects;
CLIR works in partnership with libraries, archives, and other information providers to advocate collaborative approaches to preserving the nation's intellectual heritage and strengthening the many components of its information system.
The most comprehensive model is the work of Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, and Jan Merrill-Oldham, of Harvard University, published in the
CLIR monograph, Selecting Research Collections for Digitization (1998), referred to throughout this article as the Harvard Model.
The Council on Library and Information Resources (
CLIR) has announced that it has published The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries, a report by Abby Smith, director of programs at
CLIR.
It begins with acknowledgements, listing of staff and distinguished fellows, a letter from the
CLIR Chairman, and a message from the
CLIR President.
Checks should be made payable to
CLIR and mailed to
CLIR Publication Orders, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036-2 124.
