University of Montana, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library

The Electronic Irish Research Experience (EIRE) will serve as a national model for conveying the diaspora experience through an effective combination of primary source content and scholarly context. During the project, partners, advisory board members, and consultants will design a community- and learning-focused platform to convey the Irish American experience. Planning activities will include solidifying the target audiences, determining the scope and depth of content needed to be useful to them, identifying relevant content for focus group testing, and developing a small scale model or wireframe mockup. EIRE will establish and support collaborations between libraries, archives, universities, and academic programs internationally to identify and gather materials that build community and preserve cultural heritage.