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Shared Print Collections Program

Total current projects: 2


Problem Statement: As the availability of online scholarly resources grows, research institutions face increasing pressure to optimize management of their print collections. Consolidation and rationalization of holdings within and across institutions creates economies of scale that benefit individual institutions and the community as a whole by reducing costs and eliminating redundancies in system-wide holdings. While there is broad interest in achieving such economies, essential infrastructure for enabling inter-institutional cooperation in print management is lacking.

Impact: Projects within the Shared Print program will collectively enable research institutions to enact cooperative print management schemes by (1) creating a venue in which shared policy can be formulated, (2) establishing best practices that will guide institutions in implementing shared print solutions, (3) contributing to the development of tools that will support institutions in integrating shared print solutions within existing workflows, and (4) demonstrating the value and feasibility of inter-institutional print management in a pilot implementation among program partners.

Projects

Committees and Working Groups

Resources

For more information

Constance Malpas
Program Officer
malpasc@oclc.org

 

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