Coordinating Committees

Digital Initiatives Coordinating Committee

The System-wide Digital Initiatives Coordinating Committee will oversee the cooperative development and growth of digital initiatives within the University of Wisconsin Libraries.  This cooperation will be exemplified by such initiatives as the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections and the MINDS@UW project as well as other cooperative ventures.  The committee will be responsible for assessing the efficacy of existing efforts, gathering information and recommending new efforts to meet changing needs, recommending funding for existing and new cooperative digital projects, cooperating with other statewide or regional digitization efforts, such as Wisconsin Heritage Online, and working towards the further creation and development of shared system-wide digital collections.

The Digital Initiatives Coordinating Committee will encourage the cooperative development and growth of digital collections in the UW libraries.  Specifically, to:

  • Oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive plan for shared digital collections within the University of Wisconsin Libraries

  • Analyze needs of the UW Libraries for additional digital initiatives

  • Refine decision-making benchmarks for additions to existing digital initiatives

  • Recommend funding for additions to existing digital initiatives or the creation of new digital initiatives

  • Cooperate with and coordinate activities with other state-wide digital initiatives such as Wisconsin Heritage Online

  • Encourage further cooperative efforts in sharing information and developing local or regional digital collections

  • With input from technical services and automation staff, develop policies and procedures to enhance access to UW System digital collections

  • Report periodically to CUWL and on the CUWL website the proceedings of the meetings and reports on its efforts