Becoming an RLG Programs Partner
RLG Programs partners are a cross-section of
not-for-profit memory institutions with an educational, cultural, or research
mission. As a partner you can take advantage of the combined expertise
and experience of staff and partner institutions. We welcome your
interest in joining RLG Programs.
Requirements for institutional partnership
- Deep and rich collections and information resources,
and a mandate to make them accessible now and into the future.
- A commitment to exploit technology to make these
collections accessible for research.
- Resources that enable contribution to the "commons,"
without immediate gain.
- Commitment to collaboration.
- Capacity to contribute in multiple ways (e.g.,
collections, metadata/records and generally by sharing expertise and
technology infrastructure, helping to set direction for collaboration
work, etc.).
Benefits of institutional partnership
include
- Active engagement in the collaborative design of our
collective future.
- Participation in applied research, community
building, and the prototyping of future systems and services in support
of research and learning through libraries, archives, museums, and
related cultural heritage institutions worldwide.
- The opportunity to work with similarly motivated
institutions to collaboratively address changing architectural,
workflow, and service issues.
- Invitations to partners-only working groups that
focus on high-priority needs and issues.
- Invitations to partners-only programs, educational
events, and symposia.
- Access to white papers and research reports on topics
directly relevant to you.
- Electing partner representatives to the Program
Council—the group that advises and guides the agenda and work
program.
Opportunities through active participation
- Working on common interests with colleagues across
the world—and across sectors: our membership includes a
diverse group of libraries, archives, and museums with rich and varied
collections.
- Contributing staff and expertise to the development
of new tools and standards.
- Sharing collections and continuing to build and
refine resource-sharing capacities.
- Improving the management of the cultural and
scholarly record.
- Contributing to the developing practices and
economics of research information description.
- Benefiting from data mining efforts to improve
service and inform management of collections.
- Acquiring new understandings around the role and use
of taxonomies.
- Helping to form community views of best practices in
a range of key arenas.
Annual partnership dues, which are based on the size of
your organization, allow RLG Programs to support this collaborative
work. See our dues
schedule to determine what your rate would be.
If your institution would like to join RLG Programs now,
please fill out our partnership
agreement form and fax it to us at +1-614-718-7609. We will
invoice you on receipt.
If you have any questions, or would like to learn more, please contact Nancy Elkington.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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