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Sustainability: Partnership models

Sustainability: Partnership models. Geri Bunker Ingram CONTENTdm Customer Service Specialist DiMeMa, Inc. January 20, 2006. How do you build a digital library program. …that lasts ?. Plan Partner Prototype. Plan: A practical metaphor for planning. Partner: Leverage and synergy.

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Sustainability: Partnership models

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  1. Sustainability:Partnership models Geri Bunker Ingram CONTENTdm Customer Service Specialist DiMeMa, Inc. January 20, 2006

  2. How do you build a digital library program …that lasts ? • Plan • Partner • Prototype

  3. Plan: A practical metaphor for planning

  4. Partner: Leverage and synergy • For the user: bring together dispersed materials • For program stability • Broader appeal—more stakeholder involvement • Broad base of operations, support • For amplification of effort • Pooled resources go farther

  5. Early win Attract funding Leverage staff Generate revenue Prototype: prove your concept

  6. Choose small set of related materials • In wide range of formats • Across partner organizations • Clear rights for popular resources

  7. Demonstrate your success • To garner funding • For continued digitization • And preservation • To build new partnerships • To complement your collections • And build your contributor base

  8. With CONTENTdm, everyone can play • Public libraries • Government libraries • Academic libraries • Historical societies • Museums • Special libraries (Health sciences, law) Consortia of all of the above!

  9. Oklahoma New Mexico Texas Consortial use of CONTENTdm Alaska Washington Montana Minnesota North Dakota Maine Oregon VT NH MA Wisconsin Idaho South Dakota New York MI Wyoming RI CT Multi-state consortia and projects: Iowa PA Nevada Nebraska Ohio IN Illinois Utah Colorado WV Mountain West Kansas VA Missouri California KY North Carolina Western Waters TN Arizona NJ DE MD DC Arkansas Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive SC AL MS Georgia LA Montana statewide trial in process FL Digital Library of Appalachia Historically Black College and Universities Library Alliance Multi-regional or statewide consortia Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive REALIA Project – not illustrated due to the number of participants, including: Assoc. Colleges of the Midwest, Assoc. Colleges of the South and the Great Lakes College Assoc. Updated: 01/03/06

  10. What kinds of relationships work? • Multi-type institutions • Among peers • In a single organization, among departments

  11. Multi-type institutions CLIENTS SERVER BROWSERS State and Public libraries Users access via Web browsers CONTENTdm collaborative project University library • One (1) license on one server • 50+ Acquisition Stations (client software) • Unlimited users via Web browsers Historical society

  12. Examples: Multi-type partnerships Sponsored by academics, museums, state libraries and historical societies, e.g., • Virtual Library and Digital Archive of Alaska • Mountain West Digital Library

  13. Among peers Peer consortia • Geographic • Statewide or regional multi-types • Thematic • Disciplinary or cultural

  14. Examples of peer consortia Regional: Digital Library of Appalachia Thematic: Western Waters

  15. Multiple players in one organization • At the University system level • At the campus level • In the State Library

  16. Examples: partnering within the organization Many government libraries, including • Arizona State Library, Archives and Museum Many hundreds of academic libraries, including • University of Illinois • Washington State University

  17. Coming soon!HBCU Focuses on follow-through • Library Alliance represents • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • Cornell University Libraries • SOLINET • First phase will prototype from A-Z!

  18. Grant-funded initiative includes plans: • To build infrastructure • To educate and train • To build and share unique and important collections • To pass on the knowledge • …and preserve the materials for posterity Collaboratively!

  19. CONTENTdm chosen • Flexible • Scalable • Cost effective • Customizable

  20. Here at Midwinter, learn how they do it • By Planning • Partnering • And Prototyping Please see handouts for OCLC Booth 1454 and many onsite presentations--especially…

  21. Don’t miss this one! CONTENTdm: Digital Collection Building through Collaboration and Partnerships • Ira Revels, Project Manager for the Cornell University Library/Historically Black Colleges and Universities Digital Initiatives Project • Kenning Arlitsch from the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah Sunday, January 22nd 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Hilton Palacio del Rio, El Mirador East

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