The inventory, storage and accessing of these documents would be coordinated with the existing Washington University library, archival, and visual resources structure. The MRDC will also provide limited space for temporary storage of documents and other materials. Relevant work created by faculty and students, including appropriate studio projects, may also be stored in digitized form. By maintaining a web site that will provide readily accessible links to multiple sources of information relevant to the study of Midwestern and Mississippi Valley cities. The web page will have at least five components.
Some bibliographic software is necessary, as is visual resource management software.
This catalog should be coordinated with the existing Washington University systems. The second will contain links to relevant institutes or organizations that have working relationships. The fourth will provide links to web sites or institutions addressing urban issues. This list is inexhaustible and one of the MRDC's jobs will continually add to it and update it.