17 June 2012

Call for an international association of maritime libraries

The need is there. How is this done? Is there or has there been any such entity? Where is it and how active it it? How can I join?

If it does not exist -- and I have been looking -- perhaps there are regional associations we could approach.

The purpose: Share maritime resources, of course. Build collections. Build a repository infrastructure for hosting original, born-digital content. Share in the responsibility of identifying useful content and marking it up with meta-data. Share in digitization of printed materials. Share in cataloging. Establish a strong interlibrary loan and document delivery consortium. Use collective bargaining power to make better purchases.

I have secured several hostnames and my staff is building up a contacts lists in a CRM.

Next steps? Get our new, scalable library repository launched. Begin a crowd-sourced bookmarking project (defined in a previous post), launch a campaign.

Comments? Suggestions?

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