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Blog Post
April 21, 2020
Research Library Digitization Has Found Its Moment
Long-term Investments Pay Off and Provide Lessons for the Future
Academic libraries have been on the leading edge of universities’ digital transformation for two decades. As a result, they were prepared for this moment of crisis. The broader lesson here, not just for libraries but for the entire higher education sector, is to continue investing “just in case” in enabling capacities—rather than, in this time of looming cutbacks, budgeting narrowly for today’s immediate needs only. Recent weeks have seen the collapse of…