NextLibrary Inc. is a Canadian consulting company that really works for the client. Our mission includes promoting access to information by providing consulting services, web design, hosting, conversion and support for digitization.

The objective of our digitization projects will be to develop a virtual library or museum collections and thereby make heritage resources accessible for the researcher and virtual tourist. Projects can take the form of virtual exhibitions, image repositories or large scale digitization of documents. Funded projects will be displayed on the institution’s own website (if possible) or on NextLibrary’s site. Project tasks can also include web site development, digitizing, indexing, restoration for manuscripts, newspapers and other publications, photographs, and sound recordings.

Participation by private corporations is a key to success. NextLibrary Inc. will secure a combination of local and external funding sources by approaching Canada Heritage, Trillium, and other appropriate granting foundations; non profit and private corporations. Financial sustainability will be achieved by all approved means: by accessing the direct support of all applicable grants, subsidies and government programs for digitization and software development. Other means could include marketing and selling the resulting technology and/or marketing and selling digital and other objects online.

The projects will achieve many of the priorities of municipal, regional federal and provincial programs in innovation and value added industries. They will support regional economic development and sustainable communities.

• Increased rate of technology commercialization and adoption, software development, IT development and digitization.
• Increased Aboriginal participation in the economy. Aboriginal groups will be invited to join as partners.
• Greater leveraging of non-government sources of funding. Projects based on private participation.
  Skilled and entrepreneurial workforce leading to an innovation based economy will be developed in all participants.

Potential partners include up to ten private corporations and 20 public institutions and non profit organizations in Northwestern Ontario, including historical societies, individual libraries and museums.