Funding a Digital Library

1. Funding a Digital Library One-Time, Sometimes, All the Time

2. Building a Library Addition Planning involves determining • Storage capacity • Seating capacity • Service points • Furnishings • Technology

3. Building a Library Addition Construction involves • Excavation • Cement pours • Framing • Wiring • Painting • Furniture installation • Punch lists

4. Building a Library Addition Building a library addition is all about the place. Once the cement has hardened and the paint is dry your attention shifts to use. Funding for a library addition must be fully in place before construction begins.

5. Building a Digital Library Addition Planning and building a digital library addition is all about use not place. There is no cement to harden nor paint to dry and funding must be secured while construction is underway and the construction never stops. Building physical and digital library additions require different funding models.

6. Finding Money – One Time 1998 CIO grant • Figure out what a digital library is and how it could contribute to teaching and learning at BYU • BYU Museum of Art • 10,000 art images

7. Finding Money – One Time Library of Congress/Ameritech Grant • American Memory Project • Utah Academic Library Consortium effort • Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 • 59 diary volumes • 43 maps • 82 photographs

8. Finding Money – One Time 2003 Ira and Mary Lou Fulton Gift • High-end scanning equipment and printers 2005 Library Services and Technology Act Grant • George Edward Anderson photograph collection • Partner with Utah State Historical Society • 14,020 glass plates

9. Finding Money - Sometimes 2003 Angel Partners Grant • Student wages • Mormon Publications • History of Civilization 2007 Angel Partners Grant • Map scanning • Maps that support geography and geology studies • Maps that support family history research

10. Finding Money - All The Time The Lee Library has • Repurposed 5 FTEs to digital projects • Allocated 1 programmer to digital initiatives • Established a permanent budget for • Student Wages • Supplies • Outsourcing

11. Finding Money - All The Time Established the Marcus Bach Endowment • 46 works by Bach • Literature that supports study of world religions • John Donne Sermons • Syriac Studies Reference Library • Partnered with the Catholic University of America • BYU Religious Studies Center publications

12. Finding Money - All The Time Established the Gold Family Endowment • Family History Archive • 11,200 personal family histories • Family History magazines and newsletters • Partner with the Genealogical Society of Utah

13. Finding Money - All The Time Established the Digital Library Endowment • Contributions of many donors • Online solicitation of gifts • Now supports projects such as • BYU Electronic Theses and Dissertations • Western North American Naturalist • Marcel Schwob – unpublished letters of literary critic • Children’s Book and Play Review • And many others

14. Finding Money - All The Time Making friends and finding partners Library Consortia • Utah Academic Library Consortium • Greater Western Library Alliance • Church Consortium of Libraries and Archives Campus partners • BYU Museum of Art • BYU Religious Studies Center • New World Archaeological Foundation Other libraries • Catholic University of America • National Library of Italy, Naples