Environment
In an environment of increasing collection volumes, increased audience demand, constrained resources and new digital opportunities, Australia’s cultural institutions must collaborate to achieve efficiencies and create value. Infrastructure to support development, preservation and discovery of national collections is increasingly shared including through Trove leading to changing models of stewardship and responsibility for different parts of the national collection.
The Library has decades of experience delivering valued national collaborative services. Nonetheless, a major challenge will be to balance future investment in these services with the Library’s mission to Collect and Connect.
Particular challenges include:
the need to maintain Trove in a context of reducing ongoing appropriation and limited opportunities to achieve full cost recovery through partnerships