Proponents of IRs now find that by aligning the goals of the IR with those of the underlying institution, there is no more battle to be fought. At HKU, the Senior Management Team has recently re-articulated the institution’s mission and vision statements, to focus on three themes; 1) Teaching & Learning, 2) Research, and 3) Knowledge Exchange (KE). The HKU definition of KE includes the act of making HKU generated knowledge and skill sets accessible to business, government and the community.

Rita Wong, Deputy Librarian and Head of Information Technology & Planning, The Chinese University of Hong Kong The paper will briefly describe digitization projects in Hong Kong. More in-depth description and problems encountered at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)will be discussed. At CUHK, not only paper and microform formats, but also audio and [...]

Zheng Xiaohui, Tsinghua University Library View Presentation (PDF)

Ruth A. Pagell, Singapore Management University, Li Ka Shing Library View Presentation (PDF)

An overview of the UCSD/NCAR/University of Maryland Chronopolis^TM preservation environment,
including ingestion, curation, preservation, distributed storage, data replication and storage management
tools and services.