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Collecting with the Ivy Plus Web Collecting Program
The Harvard Library is a member of the Ivy Plus Library Confederation (IPLC), a partnership between 13 leading academic libraries, . IPLC hosts a Web Collecting Program that is a collaborative collection development effort focused on building curated, thematic archival web collections. Curators and web collectors can partner with at least one other library in the confederation to nominate a website or series of websites to contribute to one of the collecting themes. The nomination is reviewed by the Web Advisory Committee of Ivy Plus, and if appovedapproved, a an IPLC web archivist for the program will begin archiving archive that website using the IPLC's Archive-It account.
This is an excellent pathway towards web archiving for Harvard Library units that want to archive websites that crossover with partner institutions' collecting interests in order to take better advantage of collecting. It also relieves units of needing to expend additional resources (money, time, and training) on web archiving activities.
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