Additional Resources
Additional Shared Print Resources
SPEC Kit 345: Shared Print Programs (2014)
SPEC Kit 377: Print Retention Decision Making (ARL) (October 2013)
CDL, CRL & HathiTrust Shared Print Collaboration
Center for Research Libraries Print Archive Network Forum (PAN)
Shared Print Agreements for Monographs: A User's Manual (MSCS, 2014)
ALA RUSA Shared Collections Interest Group Bibliography for Open Discussions
Resource Sharing Example Resources
Best Practices for Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) Interlibrary Loan (ILL) - example of a Shared Print Program's best practices for resource sharing.
SCELC Resource Sharing Toolkit - A roundup of Resource Sharing software used in the SCELC program.
Commonly Cited Sources
If you listen to the buzz around shared print, sooner or later you’ll hear about the following.
Controlled Digital Lending:
Future Thinking: ASERL’s Resource Guide to Controlled Digital Lending for Research Libraries
Controlled Digital Lending: Unlocking the Library’s Full Potential
The Internet Archive Loses on Controlled Digital Lending - Internet Archives Blog / Scholarly Kitchen Article - March 2023
See also the Partnership Page of Controlled Digital Lending resources
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Duplicate Books, Facsimiles, and Weeds: A Bibliography with Excerpts, for Scholars and Librarians – Michael Hancher
On the Cost of Keeping a Book – Courant and Nielsen
Operationalizing the BIG Collective Collection: A Case Study of Consolidation vs Autonomy (OCLC Research Report by Dempsey, Malpas and Sandler, 2019)
Print Management at “Mega-scale”: a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America (OCLC Research Report by Lavoie, Malpas and Shipengrover, 2012)
Revisiting Nicholson Baker and Retention of Print
Includes discussion of the MLA 2021 Roundtable: A Lost Cause? “The Importance and Challenge of Preserving Research Materials in Their Original Forms”, and links to Opening Remarks by Mike Furlough, Executive Director of HathiTrust, with a reference to the MLA Statement on the Significance of Primary Records.
What to Withdraw - Ithaka S&R, 2009
Validation Studies
Several programs have done validation studies or require validation. Below is a sampling of information on validation studies and requirements.
Koch, Teresa, and Andrew J. Welch. “Monograph Validation Strategies in Shared Print Programs: Variations and Value.” Collaborative Librarianship 8, issue 3, article 7 (2016). https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol8/iss3/7.
Koch, Teresa, and Andrew J. Welch. (2017) “Validation of Shared Print Collections. Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative Survey.” PAN Presentation. https://ci-cci.org/files/2014/06/ala2017_pan_rev062017-2.pdf.
Amato, Sara and Stearns, Susan (2018) “Documenting the Stewardship of Libraries: The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust Validation Sample Studies,” Collaborative Librarianship: Vol. 10 : Iss. 3 , Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol10/iss3/4
Jensen, K. and C. H. Lee. “Rapid Collections Surveying With Book Traces @ UVa.” (2016). Available at: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0a58/100d290837030a05a26153f0bec2611c067c.pdf
Adam Chandler, Adam Wilcox, Wendy and Leary, Joanne. (June 21, 2019). "Where are our Books? 2018 Sample Inventory of CUL Open Stacks" https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/69527/where_are_our_books_2018.pdf
Pawlowski, Amy. (2017). “OhioLINK Validation of Serials” PAN Presentation . https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/4_Pawlowski_OhioLINK.pptx
WEST Standards for Issue and Volume Level Validation (2022). https://cdlib.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WEST-Standards-for-Issue-and-Volume-Level-Validation.pdf
Validation Tools
The CRL Serials Validator - Validate serials bibliographic and holdings data according to a set of user-defined rules.