NDSA:Organizational Outreach

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During the call of 12/12/11 there was a discussion on how the NDSA Outreach WG can facilitate connections to other organizations that have an interest in digital preservation.

This would include traditional library and archive organizations such as the American Library Association (ALA) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), but might also include industry associations such as NASCIO and NCSL, vendor associations such as AIIM or the Open Geospatial Consortium, and others.

We have several tasks. One is to identify the most important organizations to connect with, and to find a "hook" into the organization, which could be through identifying a place in their strategic plans that touches on digital preservation and stewardship.

Secondly, we need to clearly identify a short list of things we are asking each organization to do.

Finally, we need a clear and concise list of what the NDSA has to offer each organization.

We'll begin to sort these three lists on the listserv, with the goal of having this be completed by early 2012 so we can begin active outreach with the chose organizations.

Organizations (in ranked order of outreach importance)

• American Library Association (ALA) http://www.ala.org/
• Society of American Archivists (SAA) http://www2.archivists.org/
• National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)http://www.nascio.org/
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) http://www.ncsl.org/
• Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) http://www.aiim.org
• Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)http://www.alise.org/

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The "Ask"

What are the five things we want to ask each organization to do?

The "Offer"

What are the five things the NDSA can offer to each organization?

• We can offer to bestow the title of "strategic NDSA partner" on an organization that we have a relationship with (what would this entail?)