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Collective Collections: Recap, Hathitrust, CRL, and Ivy Plus MEETING OF THE OVERSEERS' COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE HARVARD LIBRARY MARCH 21–22, 2017 Tuesday, 2:00–3:30 pm: Collective Collections: ReCAP, HathiTrust, CRL, and Ivy Plus Glossary and Overview of Harvard Library’s Collective Collection and Storage Strategies Overview: The Harvard Library participates in a number of prospective and retrospective collections and storage partnerships. The overarching value proposition behind these commitments is to enable the Library to provide effective and efficient access to a vast array of information resources in service to research and learning at Harvard. Libraries have a long tradition of collaboration in the stewardship of materials and, as the corpus of knowledge exponentially grows, Harvard and its peers are working "above the institution" to enhance and embed collections in a networked infrastructure to benefit our scholarly community. Glossary of Collaborations and Partnerships: Center for Research Libraries (CRL) – This consortium supports research and education through the provision of international newspapers, specialized legal and governmental resources, and other materials of interest to its member institutions, relieving libraries from the need to duplicate collections of these vital but rarely used information sources. This spring, CRL will roll out a plan to preserve print copies of scholarly journals by creating a network of distributed archives. Harvard Library (HL) – As a mix of centralized and decentralized operations, the Harvard Library continues to reflect on how to best select and retain on campus copies of materials. This includes reducing duplication, a trend of decreasing on campus collection sizes within Library buildings. Harvard Depository (HD) – The Harvard Depository, nearing full capacity, is the primary storage location for Harvard materials with nearly 50% of Harvard’s 20 million items stored there and remains one of the best climate environments for long-term storage of Harvard’s vast collections. The HD also services the storage needs of MIT, whose stored holdings are nearly one million items. HathiTrust Shared Print Monograph Program – This 120-member consortium is building a digital archive of printed scholarship (currently in excess of 15 million volumes), approximately 38% of which is in the public domain and available to be read online or downloaded, with the remaining in-copyright titles open for searching. The goal of the shared print program is to create a print archive of all monographs in the HathiTrust digital collection. Harvard is in the first cohort with many of our Ivy Plus colleagues in reviewing collections that we would be willing to commit to retain for 25 years and make available to the larger HathiTrust membership. Ivy Plus Libraries via BorrowDirect – The thirteen member libraries of the Ivy Plus group are building on the success and popularity of the BorrowDirect resource sharing program to shift collection development away from the institutional level to a consortial commitment. The goal is to build a collective collection that brings a vast array of resources to the scholarly community across the network, while enabling each member library to build more focused collections that meet immediate local needs. Northeast Research Libraries (NERL) – NERL acts as a "buying club" for its thirty member libraries that provides group discounts on expensive electronic resources and handles pricing and licensing negotiations centrally. Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) – A new partnership for Harvard Library (with Princeton, Columbia, and New York Public Library), we have invested in four aisles of storage space at the ReCAP facility to delay the building of a new module at the Harvard Depository. Additionally, ReCAP is building collective collections both retrospectively and prospectively in order to leverage our collective ability to meet our scholar’s needs for new materials. Kirk, E. and Peterson, K. 2 | Page The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting A Symposium Inspired by Dan C. Hazen Click anywhere to go to the website October 20–21, 2016 NORTON’S WOODS CONFERENCE CENTER AT THE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES library.harvard.edu/hazen-symposium @HarvardLibrary #HazenAtHarvard.
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