The Policy and Institutional Framework

This chapter is in two parts. In Part 1, the policy framework on the national level is addressed, including policies of funding agencies to the collective response of research libraries through the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to position members to be actively engaged in data management planning and services. In Part 2, a general overview of the manner in which Purdue University Libraries responded is provided as a case study to demonstrate how administrative policy within a university and the positioning of one research library meet this changing environment. In 1999, John Taylor, director general of the United Kingdom’s