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Holes in the Print Safety Net
November 25, 2018
A recent CRL analysis of three major validated JSTOR print archives found that the combined holdings of those archives are short of comprehensive.
A Sea Change (7): CRL's Eighth Decade
February 8, 2018
CRL's legacy of sustained, cooperative collection-building prepares it for confronting new challenges in its eighth decade.
A Sea Change (6): On North American Cooperation
September 26, 2017
Conversations at the June 2017 Expanding the Shared Collections forum helped clarify and focus CRL planning for new shared collections partnerships.
A Sea Change (5): More Specifics
April 25, 2017
The unprecedented turnout for the 2017 Council of Voting Members business meeting was great news, but unfortunately overwhelmed our ability to answer all of the questions about the CRL budget and collections agenda. Here we address them one by one.
A Sea Change (4): The Means to the End
April 4, 2017
Fulfilling CRL’s commitment to the integrity and accessibility of critical documentation and evidence requires a change in approach. The proposed CRL budget for the coming fiscal year will support that change.
A Sea Change (3): Building a Credible Network
March 22, 2017
Creating a “CRL consensus” on goals and standards is at the heart of CRL’s shared print agenda. Essential to establishing that consensus is CRL’s Collections and Services Policy Committee (CSPC). The CSPC was instrumental in shaping the terms of CRL partnerships with the Linda Hall Library and the Law Library Microfilm Consortium, and will similarly be involved in shaping terms with future partners.
A Sea Change (2): The Terms of Stewardship
March 10, 2017
Historically CRL has set a high bar for the stewardship of shared print. CRL partnerships for shared print should do no less.
A Sea Change (1): Greater Scale
February 24, 2017
The scale of the challenges of responsible collections stewardship faced by CRL libraries requires CRL to evolve from a single, shared collection to a network of repositories. A reallocation of resources to be proposed at the 2017 Council of Voting Members business meeting could enable the organization to move decisively in that direction.
CRL's Agenda for Shared Print, 2017 - 2026
December 28, 2016
The integrity of the vast print serial collections built and long maintained by North American libraries is now in jeopardy. CRL will work, over the next ten years, to shift the onus of maintaining critical print serials collections from individual libraries to the collective, and to generate significant new benefits from those collections for researchers.
Combining and Improving Print Assets, Revisited
September 23, 2016
The recent vote on a resolution on CRL serial holdings prompted some concerns, and we address those concerns here.
@Risk Forum Ideas: 1. Aligning Archiving and Digitization
July 5, 2016
CRL’s 2016 @Risk Forum generated five "big ideas" that are shaping CRL's print preservation agenda. The first of those ideas, the inseparability of print preservation and electronic access, means that CRL must concentrate on three things.
Combining, and Improving, Print Assets
March 9, 2016
Collaboration between CRL and the Linda Hall Library to digitize historical serials represents a big step in CRL’s shared print efforts.
Shedding New Light on Print Archives and Repositories
March 1, 2016
Our iterative approach to publicizing print archiving and sharing: merging data and "narrative".
What is @Risk?
January 26, 2016
For the last two decades a “perfect storm” has been building in North American academic and research libraries. Libraries are making consequential decisions about the future of their print collections with little reliable data to guide them.
@Risk: New Rigor in Stewardship and Due Diligence
December 18, 2015
As print rapidly disappears from our libraries, it is time for data-driven, community-wide consensus on due diligence.