Sustainable Digital Scholarship: Lessons from the Columbia University Libraries Podcast Publishing Initiative

Abstract

Beginning a new library publishing program is an exciting and challenging proposition. At the start of any program, sustainability must be integrated into program planning. In this chapter we will share information about the technical infrastructure used to launch, maintain, and preserve a podcast publishing program in an academic library setting, from within a digital scholarship unit. We will also expound upon our decision-making rationale and include discussion about how the workflows we utilized or developed can be and have been used in the management of other electronic scholarly publishing programs offered by the Columbia University Libraries (CUL).