Building local digital collections with a LOCKSS box provides libraries with mission-critical assets that grow over time. How can libraries make the most of this valuable asset? How can they best influence how these assets grow or influence what publishers and genres are included? How can they take advantage of knowledge and best practices gained through real-world experience of others?
Having multiple copies of our content on a geographically dispersed network gives us more confidence that it will still be around in five years, ten years, or - given weather conditions down here - next week.
| - Aaron Trehub, Director of Library Technology, Auburn University, Alabama |
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Join the LOCKSS Alliance. LOCKSS Alliance participants are able to collect and preserve premium content not available to the general LOCKSS community. Participant fees support ongoing technical development as well as regular monitoring and tuning of LOCKSS Alliance boxes. Through the LOCKSS Alliance, libraries shape the scope and content of their LOCKSS assets in line with local priorities, thereby adding value to the library. In addition, Alliance participants are offered strategic opportunities to help determine long-term priorities and directions for the evolution of the LOCKSS software and program. Through information sharing, collaboration, and networking, the Alliance coordinates community engagement so individual activities of the participants are magnified and leveraged. A vibrant, active, and engaged user community is key to the success of Open-Source efforts like LOCKSS. Join the Alliance; ensure that LOCKSS remains a vital and useful resource for years to come. To Join the Alliance, please complete the Participant Form. UK Libraries are invited to join the JISC endorsed, UK LOCKSS Alliance (http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue/lockss).
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