Collaborative Web Archiving: the Ivy Plus Libraries Web Collecting ProgramSamantha Abramssea2162@columbia.edu, @sabramse

What is Ivy Plus Libraries?

Ivy Plus Libraries is a partnership between thirteen leading academic research libraries — Brown

University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University,

Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the

University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University — that collectively provide access to a rich and unique

record of human thought and creativity through resource sharing and collaboration.

The Ivy Plus Web Collecting Program is a collaborative collection development effort to build curated

thematic collections of freely available, but at risk web content in

order to support research at participating Libraries and beyond.

What does the Web Collection Librarian do?

Dill Comics, Calyn Pickensrich

How it all works:

Existing collection policies.Existing Ivy Plus Libraries efforts.

Gaps in collecting.Researchers and literature.

Social media.

Challenges:

Closer-to-fair division of labor.

Digital preservation.

Agility.

Thank you!sea2162@columbia.edu, @sabramse