Feeling Around a Dimly Lit Room: Towards a Virtual Reading Room

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Abstract: The New York Public Library has been digitizing its collections for decades in an effort to make its myriad collections more broadly available to researchers. Through careful copyright research, clearance and an appropriate appetite for risk, NYPL has made nearly 900,000 items accessible to the open web. Despite these efforts, many of NYPL's audio and moving image collections remain difficult for remote researchers to access without having to travel to New York City. That's because copyright in audio and moving images collections can be significantly more complex than the copyright in a photo or manuscript. To address this issue, NYPL has launched a multi-discipline task force. One of the group's hypotheses is that a "virtual reading room" could be used to give access to remote researchers for private study, scholarship or research while complying with copyright law and NYPL's privacy values. This session will give you a peak into NYPL's early thoughts on how to make its audio and moving image collections that remain protected by copyright available to remote users.

Speaker	Cram, Greg
Author	Cram, Greg
Conference	Lighting the way : A national forum on archival discovery and delivery
Sponsor	Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)

Subject	New York Public Library
Subject	Archives
Subject	Information retrieval
Genre	Conference papers and proceedings
Genre	Nonfiction films

Source ID	ltw_2020_cram
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/yv187wv5370

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Preferred Citation: Cram, Greg. (2020). "Feeling Around a Dimly Lit Room: Towards a Virtual Reading Room." Lighting the Way: A National Forum on Archival Discovery and Delivery, Stanford, CA, February 10-12, 2020. https://purl.stanford.edu/yv187wv5370

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