Introduction part of NSDL: Retrospective Essays
× This report comprises a set of essays created during a two-and-a-half day writing workshop held in April 2012 at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The goal was to develop a retrospective review ...

Scaling Digital Library Technology from Research to Production part of NSDL: Retrospective Essays
Summary × The NSDL technology charge was to move out of the research realm into production mode. In doing so, it faced four main challenges: Balance the timescale disparity between technological and ...

Organizational Evolution and Effectiveness part of NSDL: Retrospective Essays
Summary × Over its lifespan, the NSDL community was a loose federation of more than 200 projects, recruited and sustained through an NSF funding model. Initially, the organization combined two main elements: ...

Transforming Teaching and Learning part of NSDL: Retrospective Essays
Summary × The NSDL vision was to provide a nexus of resources and services to support STEM education that would build the foundation for transformative shifts in what and how we teach in the STEM disciplines ...

Developing and Sustaining Communities across NSDL part of NSDL: Retrospective Essays
Summary × NSDL has created and sustained several communities organized around STEM education that are primarily advanced through Internet technologies. However, the NSDL community learned that face-to-face ...

Concluding Remarks part of NSDL: Retrospective Essays
× Ten years ago, NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education launched a remarkably ambitious program to build an openly accessible digital library, dubbed the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, ...

Retrospective Essays on a Decade of Building a National Science Digital Libraryto Transform STEM Education part of NSDL: Retrospective Essays
This report comprises a set of essays created during a two-and-a-half day writing workshop held in April 2012 at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The goal was to develop a retrospective review that captured the nuanced outcomes and impacts of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).

Library as Metaphor part of NSDL: Retrospective Essays
Summary × NSDL was conceived at a time when both the promise and the shortcomings of the World Wide Web for education were apparent. NSDL was rooted in the notion that values added by libraries were ...