(re)building
Opportunities for Collaboration for
New York's Cultural Heritage Institutions
New York Archives Conference | June 6, 2013 | LIU
Jason Kucsma | Executive Director, METRO
About ME
American Culture Studies
Clamor Magazine
Allied Media Conference
SIRLS, UofAZ
METRO
@J450NK
BUILDING
Organizing
Relationships
Creation of something new
Our FOCUS FOR TODAY
What the hell is collaboration?
Why is it so damn hard?
What is the point?
Where do we start?
What we Talk about
when we TALK
about Collaboration.
Cooperation
COORDINATIOn
METRO/ART/ACRL/SLA
COLLABORATION
the continuum
+ risk
+ investment
++ benefit
IF IT WAS EASY, EVERYONE WOULD
BE DOING IT.
Fear factors
Admitting what we don't know
Vagueness
Too much talk
Too much sharing
Conflict
More work
Who gets the props? Blame?
THERE's A PAYOFF HERE, RIGHT?
CIRCUMSTANCE
OPPORTUNITY
STRATEGy
We're In!
Where Do we START?
Open Up.
EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY.
SEEK out unusual Suspects.
DEFINE WINNABLE GOALS.
EXPECT MORE...
from ourselves.
from our colleagues.
from our member organizations.
AN OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF.
ENVISIONING AN INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NEW YORK
WHAT IS i2NY?
Summit
Survey
Schools
Steps
Like many others throughout the country, New York libraries and archives have been tasked with providing more essential services with fewer financial resources an equation that is clearly unsustainable.
Instead, libraries and archives must focus on doing more with more, building on existing collaborations and developing new ones, removing barriers to cooperation, and proving that working together ultimately improves the services provided to constituent communities.
KEY FINDINGS
Equitable access
Greater collaboration
Innovative professional development
Connecting libary/archives services to lifelong learning
Improved communication
Immediate Priorities
Equitable Access
Working groups to:
develop manifesto on licensing terms
explore on-demand journal purchasing
develop negotiating toolkit
develop statewide acquisitions cooperative
EBOOK
scaling up existing PDA ebook pilot
PUBLISHING
Preliminary conversations around facilitation publishing work in libraries and archives
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Enter DPLA
Creating an onramp to DPLA for New York State's cultural heritage collections
CAVEAT AND CALL TO ACTION
This will never work for us....
until it does.
Be open.
THANK YOU!
jkucsma@metro.org
@J450NK
Articles/Sites referenced available at:
(RE)BUILDING
By Metropolitan New York Library Council
(RE)BUILDING
Opportunities for Collaboration for New York's Cultural Heritage Institutions Presented at New York Archives Conference | June 6, 2013 by Jason Kucsma
