Utah Academic Library Consortium www'ualc'net

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Utah Academic Library Consortium www.ualc.net

• 14 higher education libraries Utah State
  Library
• Public and private institutions
• Community colleges to research universities

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The Habit of Cooperation

• Statewide ILS implementation
• Shared Electronic Resources Catalog
• Statewide coordinated collection development
• Pioneer electronic library in partnership with
  state superintendent of education and public
  libraries
• Utah Article Delivery

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Historical Society Pilot - 2001

• Grant to scan 200 glass plate negatives
• Planned to send to Nebraska for scanning
• No database solution
• UU scanned 400 negatives (no shipping costs)
• Offered space on CONTENTdm server
• Tested concept of remote support
• Eventual total of over 10,000 images
• Project hatched idea for state-wide initiative

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Proposal to UALC January 2002

• Build a digital collection about the region
• Include resources from cultural and educational
  institutions in Utah
• Make content accessible to all citizens
• Build on existing expertise in collaborative
  digitization (UU and BYU)
• Offer local control and low-cost
• Standardize metadata for interoperability

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Start-up Budget - 100,000

• CONTENTdm software for USU and SUU
• 10,000 x 2 20,000 (Level 2 licenses)
• Flatbed scanners and computers for USU and SUU
• 20,000 x 2 40,000
• Aggregating server and license
• 10,000
• PT scanning technicians
• 7,000 x 4 28,000
• Training
• 2,000

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MWDL Digitization Process
Partner identifies Collection and secures
funding
Regional Center scans images
Center provides software and training
Partner/center creates project website
Partner enters metadata and uploads to center
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Utah State CONTENTdm Server (Solaris)
MWDL Structure
MWDL website http//mwdl.org
U of Utah CONTENTdm Server (Windows)
BYU CONTENTdm Server (Linux)
OAI Harvester
SUU CONTENTdm Server (Linux)
Add 2 more hubs
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Current MWDL Numbers

• 500,000 digital objects
• 8 centers in Utah and Nevada
• 15 hosted partners
• Does not include Utah Digital Newspapers

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MWDL Participants

• Hosting centers
• Libraries at UU, Brigham Young University, Utah
  State, Southern Utah University, UNLV, UN-Reno ,
  Weber State University
• State Archives
• Partners
• Colleges
• Westminster College, Snow College, Eccles Health
  Sciences Library, Quinney Law Library, BYU-Idaho,
  Utah Valley State College
• Public libraries
• Uintah County, Delta City, Murray City
• Other
• State Historical Society, Great Basin
  Association, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Park City
  Museum, Topaz Museum, College of Architecture at
  UU

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MWDL Model Launched Others

• Western Waters Digital Library
• 12 institutions in 8 western states
• 110,000 objects harvested
• Utah Digital Newspapers
• Digital newspaper content distributed across UU,
  BYU, USU
• 6.5 million objects harvested
• State-Wide Institutional Repository

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Financial Support

• Utah Academic Library Consortium
• 100K startup costs in 2002
• Recent funding of Program Director position for
  five years
• LSTA
• State Library very supportive of MWDL
• Small grants for digital projects
• Requirement to follow guidelines of MWDL

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The MWDL Model

• Partners retain their identity
• Multiple access points to collections
• Local website
• MWDL website
• Object stored in only one place
• Digitization occurs in a uniform manner
• High-end equipment, standards
• Revenue stream for regional centers
• Structure is semi-self-sustaining
• Partners trained to apply metadata
• Contribution and control

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Challenges of MWDL Model

• Not everyone contributes equally
• UU doing most of hosting/supporting
• Until August, no full-time personnel
• Website suffers from lack of attention
• Design doesnt guide users very well
• Nobody wants to pay for the multi-site server
• In process of building our own based on PKP
• Looking at on-the-fly federated search option
• Open Source movement frowns upon CDM

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Some Words About Consortium Life

• Leading efforts like this requires a long view
• Some participants need to be brought along based
  on faith that they will get there
• Personnel issues, lack of resources/motivation
• Foster and encourage small acts of leadership
• There must be something for everyone

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Looking Ahead

• Digital publishing and the creation of new
  knowledge
• Improving interfaces
• Ecommerce
• Selling prints and ?

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Continue the discussion with us

• Sandra McIntyreProgram Director,
  MWDL1-801-585-0969sandra.mcintyre_at_utah.edu