RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM: Insights into Library, Archive, and Museum Interaction at Five Institutions Ricky Erway, RLG Program Officer OCLC Programs and Research Panel: “You Say You Want a Revolution… Combining Archives, Museums, and Libraries” SAA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA August 28, 2008
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, Context
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, RLG Initiative
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, 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
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, 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
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, The Workshop
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, 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
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, 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
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, Finale Artist: Nessa Smith
RLG Programs Collaboration on the LAM- Ricky Erway SAA Annual Meeting, August 29, Resources LAM report will be at Blog Web Ricky Erway Thanks to Günter Waibel and Diane Zorich