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of publication inside the campus. Petra Chronicle collection is still in its initial stage with a foreseeable collection system that will involve the University Public Relation Office. In addition to resources with obvious means of collection, there are some categories of resources that require new and different methods of acquisition. Petra@rt Gallery hosts collections from various sources. Most are not well defined in the formal administrative systems of the university. The sources can be from students’ works as requirements for some of their courses, or works by faculty and staff members. Some have specific patterns that can be observed, predicted, and so, anticipated. For example there are some courses that consistently require a final project/product to be produced. For these instances the library is currently working a formal system for collecting the resources through the curriculum with several departments and their faculty members. The expected system would be a requirement for students of these courses to submit a documentation of their projects/products to the department or library as part of the grading system. However there are some sources that have no specific pattern, which makes it difficult – if not impossible – to define a formal system for documenting the resources. A faculty member might decide to require a final project/product in one semester but not for the other. Students, faculty, and staff members can also produce works of art in ad hoc committees, or just for fun. For these instances the library should take proactive approaches in monitoring its environment and user communities. Approaches have also been made to the university administrators to include documentation steps in the standard operating procedures for ad hoc committees. This way the resulting documented resources would be the results of premeditated or conscious efforts, rather than spontaneous or spur-of-the-moment ones. Surabaya Memory is a unique collection in terms of how its collection is developed. There is no specific set of procedures for developing its content. This is due to the fact that the content has been developed through the contribution of the people of Surabaya. The library merely catalogs the contributed resources. This specific nature of Surabaya Memory has led the library to emphasize in promotion and community outreach programs as the strategic approaches to develop the collection. Various ‘artifacts’ of Local Content resources Although Desa Informasi develops digital information resources, there are occasions, where the physical ‘artifacts’ are also collected. However Desa Informasi limits itself to collecting only paperbased and CD Rom-based ‘artifacts’ due to constraints in storage space. Quality and value are the two criteria for the decision to collect them. Some works embody 4
values that are very local; some have high values in public-related issues. The ‘artifacts’ are treated as special collections of the Library. Library users can browse through them on the shelves or other storage compartments. The ‘artifacts’ are also used in the physical exhibitions in or outside of Petra Christian University library. It is clear in this situation that some kind of appraisal decision is made in the acquisition process of the ‘artifacts.’ It is similar to the judgments that are usually made in the acquisition of archival materials. The development of Local eContent collections in Petra Christian Universtiy Library has had positive impacts. It has managed to capture and preserve the intrinsic content of information and/or knowledge in the various works documented, resulting in various learning resources that library users and campus communities can use. The project has reinforced the role of the Library as the manager of information and/or knowledge of the institution. It also serves as a model for other libraries to initiate similar initiatives. In addition to the resulted learning resources, the development of Local eContent collections has also increased the visibility of various academic departments, which have served as the sources of the Local eContent collections. The visibility of the library has increased significantly too, both inside the campus as well as in the society in general. This has led to increased acknowledgement and appreciation from the administrators, campus communities, library communities, and the society. This is especially true since the collections developed have certain appeals to various user communities. Local Content Global Reach The appeal of Local eContent collections lies in the local characteristics of the collection on one side and the globally-accessible nature of the collection on the other side. There is the paradox of globalization. The more global the world becomes, the more emphasis will be placed on local content resources. The value of local content resources will increase further as they become accessible globally, which means that they can be easily accessed globally (through the Internet) and/or their values/meanings can be understood by global information users. The issue is a crucial one for developing countries since the advancement of science and art has largely been defined by the west. Local eContent collections have provided developing countries opportunities to contribute and enrich the process, thus leading it into a more holistic attainment. Local Features Global Perception Developing Local eContent collections will also change local communities in developing countries from consumers of information into producers of information. This will contribute to the empowerment of local communities. Local communities are able to contribute to the global community and, in the process, they develop into much more culturally self-assured societies. 5
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