Membership in the Michigan Digital Preservation Network is open to any and all institutions seeking to preserve and protect their digital collections, as well as individuals interested in being part of a digital preservation community of practice.

Why should I become a member?

1. Digital preservation helps keep your institution’s digital content secure and safe from the many risks that impact digital content, such as bit rot, natural disasters, ransomware, and server failures. Digital preservation is an insurance policy for your digital content and is part of good collection stewardship.
2. Our community of practice builds knowledge, confidence, and capacity to do digital preservation at organizations across the state by sharing expertise, technology, other resources.
3. Members receive free consulting services around digital preservation policy development, readiness benchmarking, staff skills assessments, selection and appraisal guidance, and workflows and tools training.

What are the costs?

Members pay an annual membership fee, plus storage costs for content preserved in the network. Members receive 50GB of storage free with their membership. Additional storage fees are assessed annually at $.50/GB. Membership pricing levels for the MDPN can be found in the table below.

Membership Type	Annual Operating Budget	Annual Membership Costs
Individual	n/a	$35
“Erie”	$10,000 or under	$100
“Ontario”	$10,001 – $100,000	$300
“Huron”	$100,001 – $500,000	$550
“Michigan”	$500,001 – $999,999	$1,500
“Superior”	$1 Million – $9.9 Million	$2,500
“Bridge”	$10 Million+	$3,500
“Anchor”*	n/a	$5,000 (can include in-kind support)

The above model was developed to balance costs with equity, in order to create a path to digital preservation access for institutions of all sizes and resource-levels across the state.

Interested in joining?

Great! To start a conversation about membership, contact MDPN Coordinator, Chelsea Denault.