Partners
As a guiding force for libraries, LYRASIS forges strategic alliances with library organizations and granting organizations serving libraries.
National and International
American International Consortium of Academic Libraries (AMICAL)
LYRASIS offers distance education classes at the LYRASIS member price to the members of AMICAL, an international consortium of American-model, liberal arts institutions of higher learning.
Digital Futures
Held annually in London, England, and in Australia for the first time in 2009, the Digital Futures conferences focus on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions worldwide. Digital Futures is based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at King's College London.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance
The HBCU Library Alliance supports the collaboration of information professionals who provide resources designed to strengthen Historically Black Colleges and Universities, their faculty, staff, and students.
International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
IACET develops the standards and monitors the programs certified to offer authorized Continuing Education Units. LYRASIS is a certified provider of IACET-approved classes, giving library staff needing to enhance or maintain professional credentials another resource for training.
Network Education Exchange
Through the Network Education Exchange, members of LYRASIS and other networks can take each others’ distance education courses at member rates.
Open Content Alliance
Supports free and open access to a permanent archive of digitized materials.
State and Regional
AccessPA
The Access Pennsylvania Database Project today represents a coordinated effort to facilitate resource sharing among libraries throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania via the web.
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)
ASERL is an alliance of large academic libraries in the region.
Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia Alliance for Response Initiatives
Bringing cultural heritage leaders together with emergency response professionals to protect buildings, collections, staff, and patrons through disaster planning and recovery activities. The national Alliance for Response initiative is coordinated by Heritage Preservation (The National Institute for Conservation) and funded by the Fidelity Foundation.
Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Collaborative Digitization
Facilitate cultural heritage organizations working together to define and create Pennsylvania’s Digital Library.
Granting Organizations
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants to support original research and broad-based education related to science, technology, and economic performance; and to improve the quality of American life. The LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative is supported by LYRASIS members and funded in part by a grant from the Sloan Foundation.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants in the areas of higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, and conservation and the environment. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently funds the HBCU Leadership Program and preservation initiatives at LYRASIS.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s United States Libraries initiative supports efforts to supply and sustain free public access to computers and the Internet through local public libraries.
- The Gates Foundation provides funding for the Gulf Coast Libraries Project.
- LYRASIS serves as Intermediary for Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey for the Gates Foundation Opportunity Online Hardware Grant Program.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- IMLS awarded SOLINET a grant for the Staffing Gulf Coast Libraries Project. This grant helps provide staff to operate temporary library facilities in communities affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It also supports continuing education for library staff.
- IMLS National Leadership Grant to PALINET and the Pennsylvania State Library for a project focusing on “Research into the Optimal Environment for Paper-Based Collections in Pennsylvania.”
- LYRASIS staff is involved in six IMLS Connecting to Collections Statewide Preservation Planning Grants. Connecting to Collections is a national initiative to raise public awareness about the importance of preserving historical and archival collections through the development of statewide preservation plans.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
An independent federal agency, the NEH is the largest financial supporter of humanities programs in the US. The NEH has generously supported SOLINET with numerous grants over the years, for projects including Preservation Field Services, a series of cooperative microfilming projects, and a Challenge Grant to help form an endowment to support the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a peer-reviewed, open access online scholarly resource.
