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Digital Maryland, formerly Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage (MDCH), is a collaborative, statewide digitization program. Headquartered at the Enoch Pratt Free Library /State Library Resource Center in Baltimore, the program partners with Maryland libraries, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions to digitize and provide ...
The State Library originally existed as the Office of Public Libraries under the State Board of Education starting in 1935, though the State Library Commission which oversaw public libraries was established in Maryland by statute in 1902. [7] [3] MSL became an independent agency within the State of Maryland, merging the Department of Education ...
The Maryland Library Association (MLA) is a professional organization for Maryland's librarians and library workers. It is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded in November, 1923, in Baltimore , after a letter writing campaign by Charlotte Newell from the Maryland Public Library Advisory Commission.
Sarah M. Pritchard. Education. University of Maryland. University of Wisconsin-Madison MA French Literature); MA Library and Information Science. Occupation (s) Librarian, scholar, educator. Sarah M. Pritchard is an American academic librarian known for her contributions to research library governance, women's studies and the future of digital ...
The most traditional function of a library consortium is content negotiation. As publishers increasingly offer digital packages of content, such as scholarly databases, ebooks, electronic journals, streaming video, and other digital content, library consortia provide negotiation power to ensure better licensing agreements for their members.
The modestly funded West Haven Library has spent more than $12,000 over the last three years to lease just 276 additional digital titles beyond what patrons can access through a consortium of ...
crl .edu. The Center for Research Libraries (also known by its acronym, CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries, based on a buy-in concept for membership of the consortia. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them ...
The Digital Library Federation ( DLF) is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of college and university libraries, public libraries, museums, and related institutions with the stated mission of "advanc [ing] research, learning, social justice, and the public good through digital ...