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Why and How to Participate The Institute of Museum and Library Services has nurtured hundreds of digital collections developed by museums and libraries across the United States through its National Leadership Grant (NLG) and Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) programs. Now IMLS wants to learn more about how to best provide integrated access to the content within these diverse, widespread collections. In 2002, the University of Illinois was awarded a National Leadership Grant to help the IMLS reach this goal. NLG and LSTA projects participating in the IMLS DCC project have the potential to:
Your project will play an integral part in determining how future NLG and LSTA projects should develop their collections. You can help us discover how digital collections can support a diverse set of end users, as well as those who will build services around shared metadata. You can be a valued partner in three areas: Contribute a collection record. The collection registry is a database of descriptions of NLG and select LSTA collections. Learn more. Contribute metadata. The metadata repository contains aggregated metadata that describes the content of NLG collections. We can provide the tools and support you need to set up your metadata so that is can be harvested and placed in the repository. Harvesting utilizes the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Learn more. Participate in research. Learn more. Please see our Resources page. We are here to help you learn more about making your online collections visible to a nationwide audience. Contact Amy Jackson at amyjacks [at] uiuc.edu or 217.244.7809. We'll be happy to talk with you further!
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