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UCLA Library uses model agreements and memorandums of understanding (MOU) with international partners to ensure preservation and the broadest possible resource dissemination. We will discuss our models and demonstrative collections to highlight how OA has allowed us to bring previously hidden or local collections online with broad access. Our mission to is to organize and preserve knowledge so that students, faculty and researchers can discover and use. Our collections are used to spread cultural and political information to researchers and cultural historians worldwide. Using our international collections as a models we will discuss: model licensing, model deeds for gifts, international collaboration agreements, permission agreements, use of Creative Commons licensing, open technology standards, digitization frameworks, metadata “crowd-sourcing”, and UCLA Libraries Rights Toolkit. To highlight how the UCLA Library is developing into a model for international collaboration from the Pacific Rim to the globe we will relate our tools outlined above and highlight some recent work as use cases: International Digital Ephemera Project, Social Media Arab Spring Collection, NewsScape-collection of broadcast news from global sources, June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive, Frontera-a collection of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican-American recordings (the Frontera Collection) is the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence, Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project-a collaborative working project with NLS, Oxford and Livingstone Online. The presentation will discuss these projects and the role OA and Open Web standards interplay in building international collections and collaborations. The discussion will highlight how both technical and intellectual property considerations can facilitate pan-national collection discussions and open doors to research and scholarship. The UCLA Library is pioneering new collaborative models for developing collections through thoughtful copyright agreements, model digitization agreements, model deeds of gifts and collaborative metadata crowd-sourcing and OA models. Highlighting these techniques and toolkits used will give a “do-it-yourself” framework for other libraries interested in developing international programs. Borrowing from established “crowd-sourcing” metadata projects the UCLA Library is creating a multi-lingual system for “crowd-cataloging.” This innovative facet of our International Digital Ephemera project is a by-product of the desire for a partner institution to utilize volunteers to develop metadata coupled with UCLA professional catalogers and faculty. The multi-lingual system allows for cataloging in English, Hebrew, Arabic and Russian at the moment with new languages to be developed. This technique couples mass-digitization with mass-cataloging to quickly bring content online and accessible. Our presentation will highlight the effect of closely coupling copyright with technology as a model for future international library projects. This close collaboration between law, policy, open access and technology reflects a general trend in archival development.

International, Open Access, Model Licensing, Model Digitization Agreements, International Models for Collaboration, Open Web Standards