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RLG Programs
Collaboration on the LAM: Insights into Library, Archive, and Museum Interaction at Five Institutions
Ricky Erway, RLG Program OfficerOCLC Programs and Research
Panel: “You Say You Want a Revolution… Combining Archives, Museums, and Libraries”SAA Annual MeetingSan Francisco, CAAugust 28, 2008
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Context
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RLG Initiative
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Process
• Contracted with facilitator• Received input from thought leaders• Polled institutions for interest• Selected 5 for workshops• Had conference calls with others• Follow-up with others
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Criteria for visit
• Presence of libraries, archives and museums within single organizational structure
• Motivation and long-term commitment to LAM integration
• A champion for the visit • Established and motivated professionals• At least one area of established LAM
integration• Interest beyond established activity• Availability for visit during project timeframe
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The Workshop
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Findings
• Presence of a catalyst• Incentive structures • Organization• Institutional mandates • Grassroots enthusiasm• Projects
• single search across all institutional resources• compelling body of digitized material • pan-institutional trusted digital repository. • harness user knowledge and contributions, • the place of LAM collections in the networked
environment
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Projects
• Smithsonian• internal single point of access • comprehensive photo digitization
• Yale• “Federation of Collections”
• V&A• “The Ground Floor project”• web innovation
• U of Edinburgh• single search across all collections• common acquisition programme
• Princeton• “OneStore” for asset management• federated Search of all image resources• social tagging
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Finale
Artist: Nessa Smith
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Resources
• LAM report will be at http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports.htm
• Blog http://hangingtogether.org/• Web www.oclc.org/programs• Ricky Erway [email protected]
• Thanks to Günter Waibel and Diane Zorich