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I am interested in discussing new strategies for acquiring born-digital materials and new methods of reflecting and capturing donor relationships in agreements more precisely.  In my experience with creators in a hybrid environment for a few years, my curatorial practice has changed considerably.  There is some precedence for this with personal papers in the paper world, however what used to be the acquisition process is now the acquisition project.  I find my interactions with donors are happening with increased frequency, much earlier in their career, and that these 'agreements' are negotiated at a rate, practically, with each accession.  How can this process be managed and be successfully scaled?  Is it possible to implement a number of acquisition methods and sustain them?   

Models for Access

Dawn Schmitz, University of California, Irvine

I would like to learn more about different practical models for creating access to born-digital materials, including those in hybrid collections. How is access provided in the reading room? Is description of born-digital materials integrated with that of analog materials? How are access policies and procedures, such as those related to making copies, managed? I would be interested to know whether other institutions have experimented with online remote access (whether open or restricted to registered users). While creating greater access, this is not appropriate for every type of collection and it brings about its own set of issues related to: intellectual-property and privacy rights (including those of third parties); scalability; infrastructure; and, in the case of hybrid collections, providing differential levels of access to different forms of materials in the same collection.