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Partnerships

Forging collaborations are a key part of our organizational mission, as we envision ways to work with partners and leverage mutual expertise to expand access to information, celebrate our region’s diversity, and preserve unique resources.

In 2002, the Library was awarded an Institute for Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant to digitize a major art collection in the Valley, and established the capacity for such cross-institutional collaborations. The grant spurred the development of partnerships and a collaborative approach which continues to this day.

Merced County Historical Society and Courthouse Museum

The Library has partnered with the Merced County Historical Society and Courthouse Museum to provide digital access to a number of their collections.

View results of our collaborations on Calisphere.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

Under a cooperative agreement with the National Parks Service, the UC Merced Library is assisting Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks museum with digitizing archival materials.

Yosemite National Park

The Library worked with the Yosemite National Park Library and the Yosemite National Park Archives to digitize and provide access to a series of panoramic photographs of Yosemite National Park as well as the Superintendent monthly reports.

University of California Cooperative Extension

In 2016, under an agreement with the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR), the Library began a project to archive, preserve, and provide access to UCCE historic records found at county offices and at the statewide office.

UCSF Library Archives & Special Collections

We have partnered with UCSF to digitize archival and other unique collections related to health and medicine.

Japanese woodblock prints on health and disease
Speck cholera
Eric L. Berne papers (psychiatry)
AIDS history collections
Women pioneers in child studies

Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture Collection

The UC Merced Library received a National Leadership Grant for Museum and Library Collaboration in 2002 from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to digitize works from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (formerly known as the Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art) in Hanford, CA.

View the results of this collaboration on Calisphere.