The Digital Library of Georgia: Sustainability and Success through Collaboration Sheila McAlister Associate Director Digital Library of Georgia

GALILEO Community 9,829,211: number of Georgians currently being served by GALILEO as of July 1, : number of Participating Institutions FY2010  35: University System of Georgia  26: Technical College System of Georgia  17: Atlanta Macon Private Academic Libraries  29: Georgia Private Academic Libraries  62: Georgia Public Library Systems  186: Public K-12 School Systems  28: Private K-12 Schools (Members of Georgia Independent School Association)

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DLG Mission Statement The Digital Library of Georgia … collaborates with Georgia's Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of education and culture to provide access to key information resources on Georgia history, culture, and life.

Stakeholders GALILEO Georgia Public Library Service Georgia Humanities Council Institute for Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Humanities National Historic Publications and Records Commission University of Georgia Libraries

COLLABORATION

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Shared Infrastructure DLG Union Metadata Catalog (META) and object hosting Archivist’s Toolkit/EAD database hosting Galileo Knowledge Repository Digital Preservation

Archivist’s Toolkit

GALILEO Knowledge Repository Conduct a survey and focus groups of the USG faculty’s usage and perceptions of IRs Build a central repository of standardized metadata, featuring the repository collection mapping tool, harvested from eight IRs in the USG

GKR Establish a service to host individual IRs for three participating USG institutions Establish IR-related services: rights assistance, digitization, content submission, and preservation Develop and implement the Statewide and Consortial Repositories Symposium

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Guiding Principles Usability and accessibility Standards and best practices Added value Copyright Digital preservation Appropriate use of technology