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Confronting challenges of documentation in the digital world: the Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas

Fred Heath, Christian Kelleher, T-Kay Sangwand and Kevin Wood

Introduction

The ever-increasing availability of digital information resources has significantly impacted researchers’ information-seeking needs and habits. The shift from analog to digital resources combined with users’ changing expectations on information delivery formats requires university libraries to creatively reconceptualize the information services they provide and often justify their existence to administrators and other funding entities. The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) at the University of Texas Libraries (UTL), a collaborative ...

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