Ms. Imengel Mad Palau Community College imengelm@palau.edu

We describe a collaboration project between the Palau Community College (PCC) Library and the Belau National Museum (BNM). The project, funded by a two-year U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant, enhances access to the BNM Media Collection. The Media Collection is in great demand, and the pressures of human use exacerbate an already tenuous situation for the long-term preservation of the images. While digitization is not viewed as the preservation solution, it assists the Museum to lessen the impact of human handling. By making the Media Collection more accessible through integration of the PCC Library´s online catalog, a much wider audience is reached, and mishandling of the original image is significantly reduced. The PCC Website links the Library WebCollection Plus, which contains digitized images selected from the extensive photo archives, as well as digitized images of the ethnographic and other objects in the Museum´s collection, including contemporary art.