A Multi-Institutional Approach to Technical Report Literature
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A Multi-Institutional Approach to Technical Report Literature
Development of the Technical Report Archive & Image Library
12.15.2009GL11 – Piecing It all Together
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ChargeDevelop a collaborative project with the Center
for Research Libraries to identify, digitize,
archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted
access to federal technical reports issued prior
to 1975.
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Collaborative Opportunities
•Center for Research Libraries (CRL)•Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA)
▫Regional consortium of 33 members▫Strategic direction for preservation
•Government Agencies
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Libraries are changing
•Gift-cultures are one way to maximize our resources and expertise/specializations for the good of the community.
•This model can be achieved regardless of the number of participants, geographic location, collection scope, or member assets
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PossibleRoles
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Process
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Accomplishments• Completed an inventory of all defunct federal agencies and
report series that were issued by those agencies
• 17,575 page-views of the pilot site in the first year
• ~13,000 items cataloged & scanned; 1.2M pages scanned
• 254% Return on investment
• Establishing collection sets of MARC records in OCLC
• Print Archive
• Inventory control for all documents
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Lessons•Collaborations are economical, but they
do have costs
•Match your institutions assets and capabilities to the identified needs
•Every institution has a different reason for participation; help each to be successful
•Create a shared vision & passion for the goal
•Need good project management
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Lessons (cont.)
•Pragmatism rules
•Maximize use of the social network; develop trust
•Establish formal agreements to back-up your activities
•Seize opportunities; be flexible
•Can’t wait for everything to be perfect & in place
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Questions?TRAIL Project Info - http://trail.gwla.org
Pilot Site - http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/
Maliaca OxnamUniversity of Arizona [email protected]