A Massive Challenge

Digital Preservation of MOOCs

John D. ShankHead of the Boscov-Lakin Information Commons & Thun Library2014 Charleston Library Conference

A New Scale

A New Scope

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A Massive Shift

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“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”

- Andrew Carnegie

What are libraries roles now?

To be a lush tranquil island in a vast stormy ocean.

Overabundance Scarcity

What Path do we Chose

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