Interested in joining UPLINK?

Any heritage organization (historical society, museum, library, archives, etc.) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that has primary source material documenting the history and culture of the Upper Peninsula can join UPLINK! Learn more about why and how to join below.

 

Membership Benefits

  • Inclusion on the UPLINK website as a member organization: promotes awareness of your organization and encourages people to visit your website and perhaps visit your organization in-person
  • Continued maintenance of your digital collections: UPLINK maintains two back-up copies of each digital collection as well as the copy on our web server
  • Finding aids and/or descriptions and inventories of your collections: gets the word out about your digital and your analog collections
  • Free access to digitization equipment: Borrow text and photo scanners, digital cameras, and audio recorders for one month at a time. Or, come to Marquette to use an oversized book scanner and AV equipment.
  • Training on doing your own digitization and metadata and consultation on copyright and other topics: UPLINK staff can provide in-person or remote training to help you with your projects
  • Heavily subsidized digitization, metadata creation, and database ingest services: If you don't have the in-house capacity to create your own digital collections, UPLINK staff can do it for you. Our fees are roughly one-third of our labor costs. The rest of the cost is funded by Northern Michigan University. See our current members page for fee schedules.

 

How to Join

To join, all your organization has to do is:

  • Fill out the Membership Agreement form and email or mail it to UPLINK (email and address are on the form).
  • Pay a small annual membership fee. The fee is based on your organization’s annual budget so that every organization can afford to be part of UPLINK.
    • Annual budget up to $1,000 = $25 annual fee
    • Annual budget $1,000 - $5,000 = $50 annual fee
    • Annual budget $5,000 - $50,000 = $75 annual fee
    • Annual budget $50,000 and up = $100 annual fee

 

Questions?

If you have any questions about UPLINK's services and fees, please contact Annika Peterson, UPLINK Digital Project Manager, at annipete@nmu.edu or (906) 227-1225.