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Successful Inter-institutional Resource Sharing in a Niche Educational Market: Formal Collaboration Without a Contract

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Funded by an Institute for Museum and Library Services National Leadership grant, five universities developed a system to provide archives education courses—a niche curriculum—to each other. They use compressed video over Internet 2 in a resource-sharing collaboration across five states and two time zones. The original grant ran from 2002–2005, during which time the collaborative offered eight courses to 140 students. Between 2006 and 2008, it offered eleven courses to 177 students. This article details the administrative model, based solely on school- and department-level agreements, which have enabled this resource-sharing collaborative to thrive after grant support ceased. While developed for archives education programs, the model could enhance any niche curriculum program.

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Elizabeth H. Dow holds an M.A. in history from the University of Vermont and a Ph.D. in Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches the archives track in the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University and specializes in description of archival materials and intellectual access to electronically published historical documents.

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Dow, E.H. Successful Inter-institutional Resource Sharing in a Niche Educational Market: Formal Collaboration Without a Contract. Innov High Educ 33, 169–179 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-008-9076-x

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