1. Scanning the environment and the environment of scanning Mark Sandler Center For Library Initiatives CIC ICOLC– April 2007

2. CAN LIBRARIES DIGITIZE THE GOODS? • American Memories • Making of America • Documenting the American South • Valley of the Shadow • New Deal Network • Perseus CIC

3. CAN LIBRARIES DELIVER THE GOODS? • Great role for consortia • Link to freely available content and metadata CIC

4. WHAT ABOUT CONSORTIUM DRIVEN DIGITIZATION? • CDL-OAC • CIC-Wrights • GWLA-Technical Reports • ECO • County Histories and Atlases • Picture Australia CIC

5. FEE-BASED PROJECTS FROM WITHIN THE COMMUNITY? • Brown Univ. Women Writers • Eureka • Text Creation Partnership • SEP • Vanderbilt Univ. TV News Archive CIC

6. RUNNING WITH THE BIG DOGS • Google partnerships UC Catalonia • OCA partnerships BLC • MBP partnerships Agriculture Libraries CIC

7. BUILDING MEANS MORE CONTROL FOR THE COMMUNITY • Locally built resources can freely shared • Rights can be conveyed • Standards enforced • Integration across publishers • Archival responsibility • Value added services CIC

8. WHY CONSORTIA LOVE COMMERCIAL ACQUISITIONS • Buying is easy • Sales reps come right to the door • We can attach administrative overhead • We can calculate “savings” CIC

9. THERE ARE MANY INCONVENIENT TRUTHS • Perhaps we’d sooner sustain a losing strategy than validate or support our colleagues • People don’t always recognize or pursue their own best interests • Our definitions of consortia might be too limited CIC

10. NEW WORK FOR CONSORTIA • Compile communities of content for communities of users (selection) • Selectively upgrade important texts, heavily used texts, and texts of enduring research and instructional value • Aggregate and integrate digital content • Clear rights • Develop cooperative approaches for digital and print archiving • Invest strategically CIC

11. LIBRARIANSHIP IS A TEAM SPORT • Get a game plan • Compete cooperatively • Trust your teammates • Play to win • Have fun

12. THANK YOU AND COMMENTS Mark Sandler msandler@uiuc.edu