IL2004 - Monday Monday - 10:00 Innovative Partnerships for Digital Collections

Originally posted 2004-11-16.

National Academies =
National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering

National Academies Press (NAP)

provide PDFs
provide better metadata

project with developing countries to offer free access to PDFs of reports
develop pricing model for developed reports

sustain high level of visibility and maintain positive perception
build new partnerships
rethink library services, from tactical to strategic
explore opportunities for sustainable extramural funding

developing countries
library to library contact
reach out to national libraries in developing countries

they had an issue where the national academies LIBRARY had much better metadata than the national academies PRESS, so they are providing metadata from the library ILS

they have serious metadata issues at the LIBRARY anyway, because they had a paraprofessional doing the classification before 2002

gathering organizational interest

they have India initiative

focus proposal on intended outcomes (“what’s in it for me”)
state how project will support organizational mission

keep awareness of proposal
keep channels of communication open

division funding of licensed content

George E. Brown Jr. Library
URLs, email

Q technology infrastructure challenges with developing countries

A “mirroring partners” - train to handle tech challenges

bandwidth challenges

Q

they currently provide page-by-page PDF
product for libraries will be full access