Building Community: The Sonoran Desert Knowledge Exchange

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Building CommunityThe Sonoran Desert Knowledge
Exchange

• Living the Future 7
• May 2nd, 2008

Kimberly Chapman, Jim Martin, Jeanne Pfander UA
Libraries Holly Hartmann UA Office of Arid
Lands Studies
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Todays Objectives

• Sonoran Desert Knowledge Exchange
• Vision
• Partners and Participants
• Project Development and Content
• Exploring Collaboration
• What makes a collaborative project?
• How do you build collaboration?
• Challenges and rewards?

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UA Libraries Projects

• TRAIL
• Lesson Link
• Rangelands West
• Sonoran Desert Knowledge Exchange
• The Sonoran Desert
• The Saguaro!
• Two Rainy Seasons
• Amazing biodiversity!

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Sonoran Desert Knowledge Exchange

• The Sonoran Desert Knowledge Exchange (SDKE)
  is a collaborative initiative led by the UA
  Libraries that seeks to bring together
  individuals and organizations who have
  information, services and other resources that
  can contribute to increased awareness, research
  and preservation of the Sonoran Desert.