{"id":106,"date":"2021-01-15T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:10:34","slug":"alair-policies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/alair-2\/alair-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"ALAIR Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Library Association Institutional Repository is an open access repository for the permanent retention and preservation of digital-born records of the ALA and its members.\u00a0 While ALA staff and members are able to upload records and enter in appropriate metadata, administrative functions are limited to ALA Archives staff.\u00a0 For any issues that the user cannot address themself, please contact the ALA Archives for help.<\/p>\n<p>Only records of archival value should be deposited into ALAIR.\u00a0 This means records of enduring administrative, legal, and research value, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Official records: constitutions, by-laws, minutes, transcripts, rosters, reports, agendas<\/li>\n<li>Historical files documenting policies, decisions, committee reports,\u00a0 speeches, events<\/li>\n<li>Publications: programs, articles, newsletters, press releases, journals<\/li>\n<li>Audio-visuals: images, photographs, videos, and sound recordings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For all records that are uploaded, users must read and agree to a non-exclusive disclosure license that will automatically appear during the submission process.\u00a0 Please be aware of any external rights beyond the user and the ALA when uploading records, especially publications.\u00a0 An embargo can be placed on records or publications that should not be made readily available until a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Any digital records that may not be appropriate for ALAIR, but still retain administrative, legal or research value, can be taken in by the ALA Archives and placed on the Archives server for permanent retention and preservation.\u00a0 This might include records that have sensitive information that should not be open access, records with copyright concerns, correspondence and case files with privacy concerns, and complex office or personal file structures.\u00a0 For questions in regards to what to deposit into ALAIR, please contact the ALA Archives at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ala-archives@library.illinois.edu\">ala-archives@library.illinois.edu<\/a>\u00a0or at 217-333-7841.<\/p>\n<p>(Created 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Library Association Institutional Repository is an open access repository for the permanent retention and preservation of digital-born records of the ALA and its members.\u00a0 While ALA staff and members are able to upload records and enter in appropriate metadata, administrative functions are limited to ALA Archives staff.\u00a0 For any issues that the user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7956,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/7956"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}