>is it better off being comprehensive (e.g., all the libraries, all >the 
>archives, all the musuems, etc.) to have as large a pool as >possible, or 
>whether having a bunch of more focused fora (e.g., the >potential digital 
>preservation one mentioned by Trevor) is the way >to go.

Anyone interested in this question might want to check out this thread on the 
distinction/reasons for thinking about doing a general libraries Q&A site and 
one focused on digital preservation/stewardship 
http://anjackson.github.io/zombse/062013%20Libraries%20&%20Information%20Science%20Meta/static/questions/50.html
 (thanks to Andy Jackson for the Zombie version of the site he threw up so we 
can read these discussions.) 

My short recap on this is: I think a general Libraries discussion site is 
likely to be so broad that it might not work (ex. some folks in the LIS Stack 
Exchange wanted to talk about things like book suggestions for young readers, 
and best practices for weeding book shelves at public libraries.) With that 
said, the digital preservation focus might be more spesific than this kind of 
thing would need to be. So if it was digital stewardship/curation/etc it might 
have a section or channel focused on digital preservation, on digital access, 
on born digital collection development, on digitization, on training and 
education, etc. 

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