The challenges of managing a digital library are fundamentally no different from managing a print collection. It is essential to know your audience: who are they? how will they use the collection? why will they use the collection? what information do they value, and what is merely "nice to have"? how will we know?
If you can answer those questions, and more importantly, prove that you have the right answers, you can confidently begin the process of collection development. Format is relatively unimportant.
Where format becomes important is in training users - in the use of the tools and in information literacy. I hope that new graduates actually have an advantage over oldsters like me, because they haven't had to spend a lot of time retraining themselves, and trying to anticipate why anyone would want a wiki, a Twitter account or a Facebook page.
Come join us in AALL as well - I think you can be an Associate member if you are not working in the library or legal information field: http://www.aallnet.org/
And you know about LAW-LIB, right?: http://home.olemiss.edu/~noe/llfaq.html
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If you can answer those questions, and more importantly, prove that you have the right answers, you can confidently begin the process of collection development. Format is relatively unimportant.
Where format becomes important is in training users - in the use of the tools and in information literacy. I hope that new graduates actually have an advantage over oldsters like me, because they haven't had to spend a lot of time retraining themselves, and trying to anticipate why anyone would want a wiki, a Twitter account or a Facebook page.
And you know about LAW-LIB, right?: http://home.olemiss.edu/~noe/llfaq.html
Anyhoo, welcome aboard!