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Libraries + museums = mmp nirvana
The Montana Memory Project allows libraries and museums to work together by digitizing and sharing collections online. Both institutions share similar goals of providing access to educational resources and preserving local history. By pooling resources like employees, volunteers, content, and metadata, partners can achieve the shared mission and make collections accessible to a wide audience through the Montana Memory Project.
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Libraries + museums = mmp nirvana
- 1. LIBRARIES + MUSEUMS =MMP NIRVANA MONTANA MEMORY PROJECT COLLECTIONS COME FROM PARTNERSHIPS
- 2. SHARE SIMILAR MISSIONS Library •Provides access to books, magazines, audios, videos, e-books, e-readers, online resources and public computer workstations. Various programs and volunteer opportunities are also available. • The Library exists to provide free access to meet the information needs of our community, to enrich, entertain and inspire, to help people learn new skills, better their education, improve literacy, and to increase social awareness and community involvement. Museum • To collect and preserve the natural, physical and human history and to ensure this history is made accessible to all people. • The Museum exhibits, interprets, collects, and preserves content, with an emphasis on Montana and surrounding regions, for the enrichment, education, inspiration, and enjoyment of all.
- 3. Mission - To providefree and open access to Montana related digital materials. These materials provide opportunities for education, genealogy research, business, pleasure, and lifelong learning. The Montana Memory Project encourages cultural institutions to digitize and share historic and contemporary resources. http://montanamemory.org
- 4. MMP CONTENT • Contributedby museums, libraries, and archives • Original content remains with the contributing organization • Digital copy is uploaded with descriptive information (metadata) to the MMP
- 5. LIBRARY RESOURCES • Employees • Volunteers •OCLC members • Metadata/cataloguing • Collections
- 6. MUSEUM RESOURCES • Employees • Volunteers •Content • Knowledge • Donors • Inventory software (metadata)
- 7. PARTNER TO WORKTOWARDS SIMILAR MISSION • Digitize content • Write Metadata • Upload content • Share content with public
- 8. NIRVANA • Pool yourresources • Share you community’s story • Make collections accessible • Jennifer Birnel • Montana Memory Project, Director • Jbirnel@mt.gov • http://montanamemory.org • (406) 438-2041
Editor's Notes
- #2 Libraries and Museums make natural partners for contributing content to the MMP.
- #3 Libraries and Museum share very similar missions. We believe in collection content and providing access to content to entertain and to enrich peoples lives.
- #4 This is also the mission of the MMP. It makes sense that we work together to this end.
- #5 The MMP accepts content from libraries, museums, and archives. The contributing organization is responsible for getting collection content digitized and creating metadata. The digital copy with the metadata is then uploaded to the MMP. I will walk employees and volunteers through the process from start to finish.
- #6 Libraries can bring to the table several resources including employees and volunteers. Most libraries pay membership fees to OCLC group services contract. This contract includes the CONTENTdm platform that makes the MMP webpages possible. Library staff members are familiar with basic cataloging and metadata principals. Libraries often have content in their collections that lend themselves to digital collecitons.
- #7 Museums also have employees and volunteers. In smaller communities, they are often the keepers of the historical content and have great materials for collections. The staff and volunteers have great knowledge about the community’s historical items. Museums have regular content donors, providing new content for display. Many museums keep track of their items with an inventory software like PastPerfect. This information is also a form of metadata and can be used to create metadata files. Museums often are only open for a few months a year – Memorial day to Labor day, so their volunteers may have some free time each year.
- #8 Library and museum partneships can create an opportunity to share the workload.
- #9 Much of the content that makes an excellent digital collection is hidden away in museums and libraries. The content is stored in files cabinets, binders, cupboards or boxes. Putting the collection on the MMP makes the content available to all.