Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Shared Print Repository is moving into Phase 2 of its development with the introduction of a second node at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The node will house 250,000 volumes. Collection ingest will begin with most commonly held titles to maximize shelf space. Ingest of local holdings is expected to begin in summer 2017. BTAA is having CRL prepare a multi-institutional collection analysis of more than 500,000 title holdings to determine titles with high overlap. Read more...
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has successfully transitioned the responsibility and maintenance of the PAPR Registry from our development partner, the California Digital Library to CRL’s Chicago office. Read more...
CRL has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a six-month planning effort to develop and cost out a methodology and strategy to identify the “critical corpus” of journal literature published in print form that is important to academic research in the humanities and social sciences, and thus worthy of long-term preservation. Read more...
The Florida Academic Repository (FLARE) has completed the cataloging and shelving of 117,661 items from the University of Miami and Barry University Law. As of January 2017 FLARE provides access to 1.258 million items. An additional 207.000 items are anticipated for transfer so far this year. Read more...
HathiTrust has begun the first phase of its Shared Print Program, which aims to secure retention commitments for print holdings corresponding to all monograph titles in the HathiTrust digital collection. The focus in the first phase is on finalizing policies and the MOU and identifying an initial set of retention partners and commitments. More than 50 HathiTrust partner libraries have volunteered to participate as potential Retention Partners. Read more...
The Maine Shared Collections (MSCC) have worked with its 37 Maine library members to analyze their print monograph collections. On average, 37% of the print monograph collections of the libraries the MSCC have worked with so far already have MSCC retention commitments at another library, which means substantial withdrawal opportunities. The next group collection analysis for MSCC will be in 2019. Read more...
OhioLINK is starting the second phase of a serials verification project with 19 large volume serial sets. In the first phase of their project they verified 15 titles at the issue level. They found that it took about 2.5 minutes per volume. Also in this first phase they found few cases of missing issues or pages but for those incomplete volumes an accessible copy was available to them at the national level. Based on these findings, OHIOLINK's new verification policy is that they will verify each title only at the volume level for all titles where there are at least two print copies available through OCLC. Read more...
OhioLINK and Ohio University have received a $46,207 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the State Library of Ohio Board for a pilot project to identify, select and preserve unique print monographs located in Ohio’s Southeast Regional Depository (SEORD). The goal of the project is to relocate unique monographs to a new location and then lower the lending priority of the material remaining in SEORD. They want to determine if demand will be low enough to withdraw non-unique material from SEORD. Read more...
The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) has moved toward implementation of its shared monograph agreement with fourteen of its member libraries. Members submitted their data to SCS in the fall of 2016 and the analyzed collection data will be ready for review early in 2017. SCELC is working with key publishers on the establishment of a shared e-book collection that reflects member's shared print retention holdings. Read more...
Scholar's Trust members ASERL and WRLC unanimously approved revisions to the ASERL/WRLC Reciprocal ILL Agreement in December 2016. The new agreement provides no-fee, priority service to each other’s resource sharing requests. Read more...
The University of California Shared Print Program has announced a new agreement signed by the UC Libraries and JSTOR for the continued retention and management of the UC-JSTOR shared print archive. In the upcoming year, the archive will be disclosed according to UC and OCLC Metadata Guidelines for shared print journal archives. This will include some of the UC’s validation information from page verification. Read more...
The University of California Shared Print Program is conducting an experiment to remove duplicate volumes of WEST Gold archives after a complete archive has been assembled in one of the facilities. The pilot is intended to better understand the costs of removing duplicates from the Regional Library Facilities. Read more...
UC Libraries conducted an assessment of the Prospective Shared Print Journal Collection for Licensed Content Journals in 2016. They determined the development of this print archive was no longer necessary. This collection is comprised of print journals from several publishers including Elsevier, Springer, Sage, Blackwell-Wiley, and Taylor & Francis. Note: Other prospective agreements and non-journal collections received through license agreements are unaffected and continue to be developed. Read more...
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is currently managing Archive Cycles 6 and 7. In these cycles, Archive Holders have committed to retaining an additional 163,000 volumes (3,354 journal families). Disclosures will be recorded in AGUA and WorldCat in late spring 2017 and in the PAPR Registry shortly thereafter. WEST Members participated in a second program assessment in fall 2016. Members provided feedback about core values and interests for the program. Read more...
The Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) is exploring the overlap of journal titles between the Center for Research Libraries and those at WRLC. This investigation includes both titles currently declared as shared according to WRLC’s Shared Copy Policy and additional titles which are likely to be designated as shared in the future. Read more...