Lessons from Working with a Commercial Partner

Abstract

In 2011, Adam Matthew Digital published London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld, a digital collection based on books and manuscripts held at the Lilly Library, the principal rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library of the IUB Libraries. Public Services Librarian Erika Dowell, who oversees digital initiatives at the Lilly Library, will talk about the library's experience working with a commercial partner from initial discussions with editors to the nuts and bolts of collaborating with a British publisher and a California based imaging company. Now that the project has been finished for almost a year, she will share lessons learned and important issues to consider when developing a commercial partnership.