Institute of Museum and Library Services Update

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Institute of Museum and Library Services Update

• Coalition for Networked Information
• Spring Task Force Meeting
• April 4-5, 2005

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National Museum and Library Services Board

• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Swears in New
  Members of the Board
• February 16, 2005

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Project Updates

• University of Pittsburgh, Sara Fine
  Institute National Study of Users and Potential
  Users of Online Information
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Digital
  Collections and Content
• Indiana University/UIUC Competencies for
  teaching digital asset management

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University of Pittsburgh Sara Fine Institute

• National Study of Users and Potential Users of
  Online Information

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• IMLS Digital Collections Registry
• Launched at WebWise 2005
• http//imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/collections/

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Indiana University/University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign

• Librarians for the 21st Century
• research-based, comprehensive master's-level and
  post-master's in library science (MLS) degree to
  educate librarians for work in digital library
  programs.

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WebWise 2005 Washington, DC February 16-18,
2005
http//www.uic.edu/depts/lib/webwise/index.html
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National Leadership Grants 2004 Awards -
Libraries

• IntLib Project

New Jersey Institute of Technology
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National Leadership Grants 2004 Awards -
Libraries

• The DLF Distributed Library OAI for Digital
  Library Aggregation
• Digital Library Federation

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National Leadership Grants 2004 Awards - Museums

• Reading Bias/Writing Tolerance Using History's
  Powerful Stories Missouri Historical Society

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NLG 2004 Awards Museums (continued)

• Interpretive Technologies Project Red Butte
  Gardens and Arboretum

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New National Leadership Grant Categories for 2005
for Libraries and Museums

• Advancing Learning Communities
• Building Digital Resources
• Research and Demonstration

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National Leadership Grants for Libraries and
Museums

• Funding for FY 2005?12,301,000 for
  libraries7,539,000 for museums
• Requested for FY 2006
  14,000,000 for libraries
  9,458,000 for museums
  
• Deadline February 1, 2005
• Award Amount 25,000 to 1,000,000
• Award announcement September 2005

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Museum Programs

• National Leadership Grants for Museums
• Museums for America
• 21st Century Museum Professionals
• Conservation Project Support
• Conservation Assessment Program
• Museum Assessment Program
• New in 2005 Native American/Native Hawaiian
  Museum Services and African American History and
  Culture Museum Grants

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Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services

• Funding 843,000 for FY 2005
• Requested 850,000 for FY 2006
• Deadline May 15, 2005
• Award Amount 5,000 to 20,000
• Match None
• Grant Period Up to 2 years

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Office of Strategic PartnershipsEstablished
January 2003

• Goals
• Maintain and strengthen existing partnerships
• Work with staff and stakeholders to identify and
  forge new partnerships
• Educate existing and potential partners about
  important work of libraries and museums

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IMLS/CPB Partnership for a Nation of Learners

• September 2004 Formal agreement between IMLS
  and CPB
• 3 million over 2 years
• Goal support libraries, museums, and public
  broadcasters in leveraging their resources to
  fulfill learning needs of communities
• Components grant program, collaboration
  curriculum, website, marketing communications,
  and evaluation
• Awards announced in September 2005

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Connecting Museums, Libraries, and K-12 Education

• Charting the Landscape/Mapping New Paths
  Workshop, August 2004
• Workshop publication, follow-up activities, and
  future endeavors
• Math Science Initiative (MSI)
• ESTEME Week

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International

• UNESCO
• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
• Digital Cultural Content Forum
• National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan

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2004 Technology Digitization Survey

• Key Findings Preliminary Report

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Responding groups Survey margins of error
Group Margin of error
Museums 4.4
Public libraries 6.3
Academic libraries 11.6
Archives 7.6
SLAAs 6.4
Total 3.1
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Respondent annual budget range
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Staff size
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Key findings Technology use

• 2004
• Libraries expanded their use of more
  sophisticated technologies, such as broadband
  Internet access, computerized catalogs, LANs, and
  federated-searching.

• 2001
• Libraries technology use is pervasive,
  particularly the basic technologies that automate
  and support services to the public.

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Key findings Technology use insmaller museums
public libraries

• 2001
• Museums and public libraries demonstrate a marked
  gap between small and large institutions in
  technology use.

• 2004
• The gaps between small and large museums and
  public libraries are still marked, but they have
  narrowed.

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Key findings Digitization activities

• 2001
• Digitization activities are an emerging focus in
  museums and libraries, with substantial work
  being done by State Library Administrative
  Agencies (SLAAs)

• 2004
• Digitization activities increased in museums,
  academic libraries, and SLAAs. Archives are quite
  active. SLAAs also support cooperative and
  statewide activities.

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Past projected technology funds
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Able to maintain current, add new technologies
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Have sufficient, skilled staff to do technology
activities

• Not enough staff 70
• Right amount of staff 22
• More than enough staff lt1
• Other responses 3

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Number of digital images created and yet to be
done
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Top three digitization priorities

• Historical documents archives 49
• Photographs 47
• Images of items in collections 30

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Top three hindrances

• To technology use
• Lack of funds 79
• Lack of staff time 70
• Lack of staff skills 56

• To digitization activities
• Lack of funds 71
• Lack of staff time 66
• Lack of staff skills expertise 39

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Using technology to serve the community

• To orient and instruct users about available
  services 70
• To provide access to the Internet 60
• To provide access to computers 59
• To present educational programs 51

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Usefulness of technology to the community

1. Makes programs and exhibits more interactive
2. Increases the number of people who participate in
   programs
3. Provides a richer educational experience

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Technologies expect to add

• Web portal or gateway for services or collections
  11
• Wireless network, including WiFi 10
• Software to manage public access to computers and
  printing 9

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Top three reasons to digitize

• Increase access to collections, materials,
  files 54
• Preserve important, valuable materials 46
• Provide access to materials via Web 33

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Top three target audiences for digital image
collections

• General public with Internet access 56
• Researchers/scholars outside our institution
  38
• Our staff 38

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Digital image collections made available to the
public

• All are available 14
• Some are available 36
• None is available 16
• Dont know/NA 34

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How digital image collections are made available
to the public

• On the Web 46
• On site at our institution 31
• Through a third party 6
• Dont know/Not applicable 39

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Next steps with the survey

• Survey report will be published this spring
• Four follow-on studies will be conducted on
  specific topics coming from the survey
• Plan to conduct the next survey in 2007