Driving Collaboration with Repositories

Developing opportunities with archival collectionsHoward Stanbury

Internet Librarian International October 2011

Agenda

Opportunities

Challenges

Solutions / case studies

About Unlimited PrioritiesFounded in 2006; HQ in Florida, USA

International team of experienced professionals

Provides unique solutions to the wide variety of challenges facing both commercial and academic & not-for-profit entities throughout the information community

For commercial organisations we offer skills in

• Content development• Licensing• Sales and marketing• Business development• Production, operations, IT

About Unlimited PrioritiesIn our Archival Initiatives Division for academic and not-for-profit organisations we:

•help identify collections most appropriate for conversion and possible commercial distribution•investigate rights ownership•coordinate communication with the commercial sector•act as a clearing house in support of any proposed enterprise•oversee any required data conversion process•assist in DTD creation and outsource vendor selection•advise on selecting the most suitable distribution environment and license data for distribution, as appropriate

Opportunities for archive collections

Libraries, Societies, Associations Libraries, Societies, Associations have unique, hard-to-find information of interest to wider audiences

DisseminationDissemination of this information may further organizations' missions and goals

DigitizationDigitization can be the key to widening access to information, providing new revenue or income streams

Challenges for archive collections

IdentifyingIdentifying materials appropriate for conversion and commercial distribution

DeterminationDetermination of rights ownership

CoordinatingCoordinating with commercial sector to explore cooperation

Case studies

Newspaper collections

Newspaper collections

Creating a publishing partnership

•College of William and Mary•Colonial Williamsburg Foundation•Johns Hopkins University•Maryland Historical Society•Massachusetts Historical Society•Virginia Historical Society

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Written for the Lady's Book. MARCH, 1 838.

QUEEN VICTORIA .

Victoria we consider as the

representative of the moral and

intellectual influence of woman

throughout the British empire. In

this view, her accession to the

throne is, and ought to be, a

subject of deep interest to her sex

in every quarter of the world.

Godey’s Lady’s BookA win-win scenario bringing together a commercial publisher and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation

•University of Iowa (lead partner)•University of Chicago•University of Illinois•University of Michigan•Michigan State University•University of Minnesota•University of Nebraska - Lincoln•Northwestern University•Ohio State University•Pennsylvania State University•Purdue University•University of Wisconsin - Madison

Primary source publications

University of Iowa Old Library building in the 1900s © University of Iowa Special Collections

Conclusions

Alliances of commercial publishers with academic and not-for-profit organisations can go very well

They need good guidance and facilitation

For libraries and archives benefits can include

•Completion or enhancement of collections

•Digitised content

•Real progress towards institutional goals

A win-win scenario for all parties

Thank you!Howard Stanbury

howard.stanbury@unlimitedpriorities.comwww.unlimitedpriorities.com