Remote Access Create secure distanced access to rights-restricted items #Nypl digital collections update#Work here includes finding more efficient ways to update archival description in our digital collections access platforms, new automated communications that will allow us to prioritize new description, and new forms of communication and collaboration among our curatorial divisions and production teams. These changes will benefit all our descriptive workflows and shape a more open and engaged culture around description with our research centers. We are working to remove obstacles to descriptive processes, making time-based media available online at a pace not previously possible. Our patrons can find library resources because they are cataloged, and they can only find our digital collections when they are adequately described. With this approach, we can fully embrace our mission as both a public library and a research archive.ĭescriptive Practices Make material available more quickly by refining descriptive practiceĭescription democratizes access. It will make material easier to discover, sample, use, and reuse in more creative ways than are possible now. Being “digital-first” will open our collections to global audiences, allowing us to reach millions affordably and without restrictions of time or space, or a patron’s abilities. We will continue to care about and for paper and petabytes in the coming years, but as we move forward we will prioritize digital delivery as our primary method of access. Our Digital Research Strategy 2021–24 presents a set of ambitious priorities that NYPL will pursue to continue and quicken this digital transformation: to seek radical access, to democratize our collections, to deepen engagement, and to reinforce systems and infrastructure. This work has transformed our collecting strategies, preservation efforts, and access services. We have transferred collections from the stacks to server racks, harnessed crowdsourcing to extract machine-readable data, and led the development of e-reading platforms. NYPL has long championed the digital revolution in libraries. We believe now that we must bring forth a world in which access to the collections we steward is no longer predicated on physical presence in our research libraries. The global pandemic has only intensified trends that existed long before society was shuttered. The ways in which people interact with and access information have fundamentally changed to prioritize digital experiences. It is only now that digital tools allow us to share our collections more freely. Archives like ours have functioned as reservoirs without conduits, sites of pilgrimage for those seeking the resource they hold but with limited means of sharing that resource outside their walls. But access to this asset has been limited by our very edifice. NYPL has gathered an equally critical resource-a body of knowledge spanning 50 million research collection items-for the benefit of the public. It pooled a vital resource-20 million gallons of water-and provided freely to New Yorkers. The reservoir’s purpose informs our present-day work. That history remains a part of the Library today: the physical vestiges of the reservoir are embedded in the Library’s foundation, visible in the building’s walls. This vast four-acre structure provided the city with drinking water throughout the nineteenth century. Schwarzman Building was erected on the site of the Croton Distributing Reservoir.
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