The August 30 MSCS Director’s Council meeting summary is now available.

The August 29th MSCS Collection Development Committee meeting summary is now available.

The summary of the August 14 MSCS Project Team meeting is now available.

The MSCS Collections Summaries produced by Sustainable Collection Service (SCS) are now available. The summaries are categorical overviews of the group data set and have been used to guide retention scenario development.

Now available on the MSCS website is the retention scenario one which contains the criteria for the approximately 1 million titles MSCS libraries are committing to retain.

Also available is the Maine Shared Collections Cooperative Memorandum of Understanding which MSCC libraries are currently in the process of signing. The MOU provides a mechanism by which the materials designated under the agreement will be retained and made available to participating institutions and the residents of Maine as long as the need for them exists, thereby allowing participating libraries to consider withdrawing duplicates of these items from their respective collections and to rely with confidence on access to the retained copies.

The summary of the June 12 MSCS Project Team meeting is now available.

The meeting summary for the May 23, 2013 MSCS Collections Development/Technical Services Committee Meeting is now available.

The May 23 MSCS Directors Council meeting summary is now available. Also attending the meeting were the MSCS Advisory Board, Jeremy York (HathiTrust) and Rick Lugg (Sustainable Collection Services).