The first retention commitment note has been added in the Minerva library catalog for one of the approximately 30 titles Edythe L. Dyer Community Library have committed to retain as part of Maine Shared Collections. Thanks to Maine InfoNet staff for their work on this.

The summary of the final MSCS Project Team meeting is now available. Thanks to the Project Team for all of their hard work on MSCS. The post-grant work of the project will continue with the Maine Shared Collections Cooperative.

The summary of the Maine Shared Collection Strategy (MSCS) project wrap-up meeting is now available. This meeting marked the end of the grant activities of MSCS, but the work of the project will continue with the Maine Shared Collection Cooperative (MSCC). Thanks to all of the library partners and participants for their work on this groundbreaking project.

The Summary of the July 10 MSCS Project Team meeting is now available.

Final figures for MSCS retention commitments can be found here. MSCS partner libraries have committed to retain a total of 1,422,342 print monographs, serials, and journals.

The summary of the June 17 joint Collection Development/Technical Services Committees meeting is now available.

The Maine Shared Collections Strategy is pleased to announce the release of their Shared Print Agreements for Monographs: A User’s Manual. The manual provides advice on shared print based on experiences at MSCS. We hope other projects will find it a useful resource.

The Maine Shared Collections Strategy have produced a policy and procedure to address situations when libraries identify on a limited title-by-title basis (i.e., not in large batches) titles which should have their retention commitment removed or transferred to another library. See Policy on Retention Commitment Changes and Procedure for the External Transfer of Retention Commitments.