Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries

In late October the Association of Research Libraries Forum, the Coalition for Networked Information the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Digital Library Federation held a forum ehtitled Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries. The keynote address, “Managing Digital Assets in Higher Education: An Overview of Strategic Issues” [a work in progress], by Don Waters, Program Officer, Scholarly Communication, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, articulates some very interesting general ideas on the emerging roles and potential reasponsibilities of University Libraries in the future of digital asset management.