Triumphs and Travails: The Challenges of Institutional Collaborations

Based on short paper presented at the 43rd Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference June 11-14, 2002 Atlanta, Georgia Association of College and Research Libraries American Library AssociationThis article describes a collaboration funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant, awarded to a Lawrence, Kansas Jr. High School, partnered a university research library, a group of Jr. High School teachers, a local community museum and a city newspaper. The object of the grant was to produce a local-history web site, developed by teachers, and used as an educational tool by secondary school students. The author details the history of the partnership and explains how an understanding of institutional cultures and a clarification of roles brought the project to fruition

Jumpstarting a Project Through Internal Collaboration: Improving Access to Library Collections

Presented at EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional 2007 Conference in Austin, TX.We share our experience with a successful internal collaboration between disparate departments at the University of Kansas. By assembling a team whose members effectively worked together, the Digital Initiatives program successfully completed a project, integrated it into the existing organizational structure, and helped create an ongoing program

BCR’s CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices, Version 2.0

This is the published version.These Best Practices — also referred to as the CDP Best Practices -- have been created through the collaboration of working groups pulled from library, museum and archive practitioners. Version 1 was created through funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services through a grant to the University of Denver and the Colorado Digitization Program in 2003. Version 2 of the guidelines were published by BCR in 2008 and represents a significant update of practices under the leadership of their CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices Working Group. The intent has been to help standardize and share protocols governing the implementation of digital projects. The result of these collaborations is a set of best practice documents that cover issues such as digital imaging, Dublin Core metadata and digital audio. These best practice documents are intended to help with the design and implementation of digitization projects. Because they were collaboratively designed by experts in the field, you can be certain they include the best possible information, in addition to having been field tested and proven in practice. These best practice documents are an ongoing collaborative project, and LYRASIS will add information and new documents as they are developed

Impacts of Openness

This is the recording from the Impacts of Openness lightning talk session that was held on Friday, October 25, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. - noon in Watson Library, room 455 during the KU Libraries' celebration of Open Access Week.This event brings together several speakers from a variety of fields, each of whom will give a 10-minute presentation about the impact of openness in their work. More information about this event is available at http://openaccess.ku.edu/impacts-openness-lightning-talks-october-25

“Creative Collaboration: Using the library to promote scholarship.”

Article describing the collaborative exhibition program at the University of Kansas Libraries

Collection Features: A new approach to collection promotion

Discussion of a Spencer Research Library tool to reveal hidden collections