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Three new jobs as TU Delft Library

As part of the Digital Services Programme, three new positions are being advertised. Closing date is 28 February 2022 User Experience Officer Contribute to world-class education and research as User Experience Officer at TU Delft Library. Your UX-enhancing changes will help students, researchers and university teachers fully benefit from our library’s services and vast repository..

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What digital collections does a library actually manage?

Brainstorming sessions held as part of our ‘rethinking the repository’ project quickly landed on the importance of thinking about (digital) collections as a way to structure the requirements for a new repository. For each different digital format that we as a library collect or manage (eg., research articles, masters’ theses, recordings of lectures, digitised special..

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Re-thinking the Library Repository – Notes from first brainstorm meeting

TU Delft Library recently held the first brainstorm meeting to rethink the Library Repository. While the  initial theme of the discussion was the repository, the conversation quickly moved away from the repository and focussed more on the content contained within them. To think about a repository infrastructure first needs thinking about (digital) collections. What collections..

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Rethinking the Library Repository

One of the key parts of the Digital Service Programme is to update the strategic direction and technical infrastructure of the TU Delft Library Repository. The current repository infrastructure serves many functions. Based on Islandora, along with various other components, it acts a mechanism for searching and downloading Green Open Access research articles, doctoral theses,..

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