“Looking to the Future of Shared Print”
Sponsored by Maine Shared Collections Strategy and Center for Research Libraries
Join us on Friday June 27, 2014| 10:00 am – 3:00 pm (following a PAN forum update from 9:00 – 9:45 am), Las Vegas Convention Center–N262, 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Building upon the experiences of current shared print initiatives, Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) are co-sponsoring this session exploring how the shared print landscape will likely develop in years to come. The session will act as both a call for future action for existing shared print initiatives and as a good starting place for those debating whether shared print is a good fit for their institution. There will be opportunities for attendees to share their own experiences of managing print collections. To read more about the achievements of MSCS during its IMLS supported project see here.
Agenda
10:00 – 10:10 Introduction
Clem Guthro, Director of the Colby College Libraries and a Principal Investigator for Maine Shared Collections Strategy
Clem will introduce the goals of the session, provide background on the work of the Maine Shared Collections Strategy, and how it has shaped the agenda for today’s session.
Clem is the Director of Libraries at Colby College. He provides leadership for all areas of the Colby libraries, overseeing the operation and staffing of the three campus libraries. Clem is a Project Principle Investigator for MSCS and also sits on the Northeast Regional Library Print Management Project Steering Committee and Monograph Working Group and the HathiTrust Distributed Print Archiving Working Group.
10:10 – 10:30 An Introduction to the UK National Monograph Strategy
Ben Showers, Head of Scholarly and Library Futures, Jisc
Ben Showers will introduce the UK National Monograph Strategy which is exploring the potential for a national approach to the collection, preservation, supply and digitization of scholarly monographs.
Ben Showers is Head of Scholarly and Library Futures at Jisc, leading on developments in digital libraries and the digital scholarly process in the Digital Futures Division. Previously Ben was a program manager with both the Digital Infrastructure and Digital Content teams at Jisc managing innovation programs in the areas of library systems, user experience, mobile infrastructure, shared services as well as a number of digitization and digital scholarly resource programs.
10:30 – 11:30 Panel discussion: Multitype, Regional, National Approaches to Shared Print Collections
Constance Malpas, Program Officer, OCLC and MSCS Advisory Board member
Lizanne Payne, Shared Print Consultant and MSCS Advisory Board member
Ben Showers, Head of Scholarly and Library Futures, Jisc
Rick Lugg, President, Sustainable Collection Services
Moderator: Bob Kieft, College Librarian Occidental College and MSCS Advisory Board member
The Maine Shared Collections Strategy has shown that a shared print project with multi-type library participants can succeed. The panel will discuss potential advantages and disadvantages of including multi-type libraries in a shared print initiative. Also, under discussion will be shared prints ability to scale beyond local approaches to regional and national efforts.
Constance Malpas has written extensively on the shift in scholarly attention from locally organized print collections to networked resources and the impact on this transition on academic libraries. Lizanne Payne has vast experience of working on regional shared print projects, from her time working as a consultant for the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) and Northeast Regional Library Print Management Project. Providing an international perspective is Ben Showers who is is Head of Scholarly and Library Futures at Jisc, leading on developments in digital libraries and the digital scholarly process in the Digital Futures Division including the UK National Monograph Strategy which is exploring the potential for a national approach to the collection, preservation, supply and digitization of scholarly monographs. Rick Lugg has worked on multiple shared print projects with his collection analysis company Sustainable Collection Services (SCS). Moderator Bob Kieft has been one of the biggest advocates of collective collection management. Bob acts as moderator of the Print Archive Network forum and has been an adviser to numerous shared prints including MSCS and SCELC.
11:30 – 12:15 How can digital collections support shared print initiatives?
Thomas. H. Teper, Chair of HathiTrust Distributed Print Archiving Working Group and Associate University Librarian for Collections, Assistant Dean of Libraries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kurt Groetsch, Technical Collections Specialist, Google Books
By offering instant digital access to millions of titles digital collections are providing libraries with the chance to rethink the management and delivery of their collections. Presenters from two of the most well-known digital collections the HathiTrust and Google Books will discuss the role they think their organizations can play in managing print collections. HathiTrust are also establishing their own shared print project.
Kurt Groetsch is Technical Collections Specialist for the Google Books project, where he is responsible for understanding Google’s current collection of digitized materials and the collections of Google’s library partners, in order to develop a better, more comprehensive and more useful digital library. Prior to joining Google, he was Metadata Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Thomas Teper is the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Technical Services and Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In that position, Prof. Teper oversees $17.5-million (U.S.) in acquisitions funding, coordinates collection development and management activities, oversees technical services activities, and works closely with representatives from consortial partners at the University, state, and regional level. Prior to joining the Library’s administrative team, Prof. Teper served as the University Library’s first Head of Preservation, overseeing the early development of its preservation program and eventually being named as the first John “Bud” Velde Professor for Library Preservation. Prof. Teper has nearly fifteen years of professional experience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Kentucky as well as pre-professional experiences at the University of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and The College of Wooster. He has been published and presented on topics related to preservation, collection development, and consortial relations.
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH (not provided)
1:30 – 2:15 Group Discussion: To retain, or not retain, that is the question
Andrew Stauffer, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, Director of Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship
Bob Kieft, College Librarian Occidental College and MSCS Advisory Board member
Matthew Sheehy, Head of Access Services, Harvard University Library
A defining element of all shared print projects is deciding what to retain or discard. A host of practical and bibliographic questions arises, however, as consortia and individual libraries develop retention criteria and workflows for decisions regarding large numbers of volumes. These in turn raise further questions about how we define the scholarly record and the record of publication, the artifactual value of volumes, the criteria for uniqueness or rarity and the values we attribute to them, and the circumstances under which a digital copy or a very small number of archived print copies are sufficient to meeting the needs of students and scholars. Andrew Stauffer will outline his views on the importance of preserving physical volumes for research purposes. Bob and Matthew will respond to Andrew and will co-lead a group discussion on the factors to take into consideration when making retention decisions.
Andrew Stauffer is professor of English at the University of Virginia and Director of NINES (A Networked Infrastructure for 19th Century Electronic Scholarship). Bob Kieft has been one of the biggest advocates of collective collection management. Bob acts as moderator of the Print Archive Network forum and has been an adviser to numerous shared prints including MSCS and SCELC. Matthew Sheehy has been actively involved in the Northeast Regional Library Print Management Project Project Steering Committee and ReCap.
2:15 – 2:50 Keynote: Moving shared print to the network level
Emily Stambaugh, Shared Print Manager at the California Digital Library and Program Manager of the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)
Existing and new shared print initiatives are extending beyond collaborative journal management to attend to shared monograph collections and other higher risk, higher opportunity collections. Emily will discuss her vision for the future of shared print which include: improvements in the discovery and delivery of shared print collections, ongoing collections analysis and retention, and a business model to support shared print at the network level.
Emily Stambaugh is the Shared Print Manager for the California Digital Library (CDL) and Program Manager for the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST). As Shared Print Manager for the CDL, Emily coordinates strategies and operations for collaborative print collection development and management among the ten campuses of the University of California. WEST is a regional shared print journal archiving program with more than 100 participating academic and research libraries in the western region of the United States. As Program Manager for WEST, Emily guides the WEST governance groups and oversees strategic planning, assessment, member participation and the business, operations and collections model. Emily is well known for her work in shared print collections management and has spoken, advised and consulted on shared print programs and repositories.
2:50 – 3:00 Closing Remarks
Clem Guthro, Director of the Colby College Libraries and a Principal Investigator for Maine Shared Collections Strategy
Clem will give a summary of the takeaways from the session.
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