Desa Informasi - Local Content Global Reach - Community ...
Desa Informasi - Local Content Global Reach - Community ... Desa Informasi - Local Content Global Reach - Community ...
In this context, Desa Informasi will play important roles in preserving (at least) digitally local historical and cultural heritage, thus preserving the collective memory of local communities. Similar efforts are in great need in Indonesia due to the frequent natural disasters and social/religious unrests that have caused destruction to numerous libraries, archives, and museum across the country along with their invaluable local content collections. Social/religious unrest in Ambon, and the recent tsunami in Aceh and Nias have only emphasized the importance of the documentation efforts such as Surabaya Memory. The availability of the digital documents will compensate (even only partially) for the loss of the physical/tangible documents. Lessons Learned Local eContent project such as Desa Informasi has strengthened the role of Petra Christian University Library as facilitator of learning process in its local academic communities and the society in general. The achievement is a result of continuous collection development efforts, cooperation with academic departments and non-academic units, promotional activities, and various community outreach programs (online and offline). The project has encouraged local academic communities to produce better works. Secondly, the project, which was started as a library project to develop learning resources, has proved to be able to fulfill the needs of academic departments and nonacademic units in terms of a digital documentation system. The project also showed that Local eContent collections do have high values and educational impacts on the society, enabling university libraries to reach out to user communities that are traditionally outside of their professional scope and responsibility. This last point is proved to be an effective and powerful marketing for the university. Promotional Banner of Surabaya Memory Regarding the Local eContent resources themselves, three lessons were learned. First, digitizing Local Content resources does add their appeals significantly. Users that traditionally had no interest in them might be enticed to take a look at the resources, thus opening a whole new set of possibilities of their usage. Second, (and still related to the first lesson) it is crucial to use exotic names for the collections to allure users to exploit the resources for their academic and non-academic purposes. This second point, again, is proved to be a powerful marketing for the library, academic departments, or even the university as a whole. Third, the development of Local eContent collections as learning resources has led to the exploration of the blurring boundaries of libraries, archives, and museums. 8
Acknowledgement The author wishes to thank the following institutions for funding the project: 1. United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) – U.S.A. 2. Van Deventer Maas-Stichting – The Netherlands References and Further Readings Crow, Raym. 2002. SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide. Washington, D.C.: The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition. Johnson, Richard K. (November 2002). Institutional Repositories: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication. Aug 12, 2004. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/johnson/11johnson.html Lynch, Clifford A. (February 2003). Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age. Aug 12, 2004. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html 9
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Acknowledgement<br />
The author wishes to thank the following institutions for funding the project:<br />
1. United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) – U.S.A.<br />
2. Van Deventer Maas-Stichting – The Netherlands<br />
References and Further Readings<br />
Crow, Raym. 2002. SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide.<br />
Washington, D.C.: The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition.<br />
Johnson, Richard K. (November 2002). Institutional Repositories: Partnering with<br />
Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication. Aug 12, 2004.<br />
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/johnson/11johnson.html<br />
Lynch, Clifford A. (February 2003). Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure<br />
for Scholarship in the Digital Age. Aug 12, 2004.<br />
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html<br />
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