Creating Digital Cultural Heritage Collections in an Urban Academic Library Setting

摘要

As libraries develop digital cultural heritage collections the relationship with theorganizations that own the collection are vital to the success of the process. This isground that libraries have typically not operated. Organizations external tolibraries that own collections have many needs beyond the simple digitizationprocess. IUPUI University Library is an urban academic library that has worked ondeveloping relationships with external organizations for almost ten years. Duringthis time there have been many hurdles and lessons learned. This paper highlightssome of the trends in relationship building with community organizations and offerstwo unique case studies that demonstrate the challenges libraries are likely to face.Other academic, research, and public libraries can benefit from developingrelationships similar to those described and enhance the creation of culturalheritage collections.