LYRASIS
client research represents the intellectual output that our world-class team of
experts have engaged with over many years to aide institutions, organizations,
and our LAM community to discover trends and solutions that help future proof
our profession. Whether an institution has a challenge they desire to solve
locally or an organization needs to assess an element of the profession as a
whole, LYRASIS client research can find unique strategies to garner information
and discover how to move forward. As a result, new strategies, methodologies,
and programs are created that can benefit all.
For example, our research work with
open source and community-supported programs has resulted in LYRASIS offering
consulting serves to support their sustainability. We helped co-create and are
now implementing consulting services focused on the It Takes a Village
Sustainability Model. We have worked or are in the process of working with ARKsInTheOpen, ArchivesSpace, CollectionsSpace, DSpace,
Fedora, Performing
Arts Readiness (PAR), Samvera, VIVO, the Digital
Curation Network (DCN), and others, in
a variety of ways, to focus on long-term
sustainability planning.
Based
on our research, we know that the open-source and community-supported
program landscape is wide and varied. Our aim is to bring
LYRASIS subject matter expertise, based on decades
of cumulative experience, to bear on a complex topic. We understand that
sustainability is not a linear process, with clear beginning and end points;
rather, it shifts and evolves over time across several facets
and phases. We can help support and facilitate the work necessary for
communities as they assess their current needs. Ultimately, LYRASIS
consultants will help organizations as they develop shared, long-term
strategies, and we’ll provide communities with the information necessary
to contribute to the sustainability of these open source and community
supported programs.
“There are few things more productive and fun to lock a working group facilitated by Leigh Grinstead in a room with several pots of coffee for a day. The result? Products that we can put into use to transform our programs.”
- Orbis Cascade Alliance
