The following is a guest post by Vicky Steeves, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This is the first in a series of posts by the residents from NDSR class of 2014-2015.
I wanted to take this opportunity, as the first 2014-2015 resident to post on The Signal, to discuss how valuable the National Digital Stewardship Residency program is. Among many things, it has given me the opportunity to work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, surveying scientific research data and recommending preservation strategies. Nowhere else could I have gotten this opportunity. In this post I will look at the value of NDSR, showing that the NDSR is an innovative and important program for furthering the field of library and information science.