Building Policy & Capacity: Launching the U.S. Library of Congress Digital Collections Management Compendium
Trevor Owens Camille Salas Jesse Johnston Andrew Cassidy-Amstutz Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez Kristy Darby
In 2019 the Library of Congress launched the Digital Collections Management Compendium (DCMC). This publicly available resource establishes and communicates institutional digital collections management policy. A core function of the DCMC is to articulate the connections between broader digital collections management policy and that of planning resources produced and/or consulted by Library staff. This paper provides information regarding the development of the DCMC and its key features, and supports use of the DCMC as a public resource. We intend this paper to be of use to others working on organization-wide digital collections management initiatives. More broadly, the paper contributes to the discussion on how work around digital collections policy and planning connects with practice.

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