A Nation-Wide Planning Framework for Large-Scale Collaboration on Legacy Print Monograph Collections

Libraries are working toward collaborative management and preservation of print journals, newspapers, legal materials, and government documents; they must also establish a similar concerted effort focused on print monographs. Monographs present complex challenges at a time when libraries want to ensure the preservation of the print record but have increasing incentives to divest of older, less used print materials and take advantage of the affordances of electronic text. With LYRASIS as lead organization, planning partners California Digital Library (CDL), Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and Center for Research Libraries (CRL)were awarded a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to conduct a workshop titled “Developing a North-American Strategy to Preserve & Manage Print Collections of Monographs.” Workshop participants discussed the challenges and issues involved in collaborative monograph preservation and formulated an agenda of research and demonstration projects to test elements of a strategy

The Future of Library Print Collections: To Share is to Preserve

Lizanne Payne's presentation slides about how research libraries are reducing the number of books on their shelves by developing strategies to share their print collections

Whose book is this [and does it matter]? How shared print programs are redefining our understanding of local collections

Shared print initiatives such as the Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust [EAST] and the HathiTrust Shared Print Program are beginning to redefine collection ownership in academic and research libraries and offer opportunities for new forms of cooperation and collaboration. These large-scale programs effectively create mega-collections of scholarly materials that have been designated for retention or preservation and can be loaned to partner libraries. This panel will report on the results of these ground-breaking shared print programs, discuss plans for growth and posit ways in which such programs may impact collection development, resource sharing, and library collaboration at scale. EAST has completed a collection analysis across more than 16 million holdings from its 40 retention partner libraries and committed to retain over 6 million items on behalf of the members. In addition, important work was done to validate presence and condition of over 240,000 items with further statistical analysis of this data likely to influence retention modeling in the future. The HathiTrust program builds on the commitments its members have made to digital preservation by working with libraries to extend commitments to the print equivalents. These programs focus on protecting print and digital collections in ways that reduce the costs of collection management and storage as well as provide models of ways in which shared print is changing the landscape for the ownership of scholarly titles. As more and more academic and research libraries commit to participate in such programs, it sets the stage for rethinking collection development and resource sharing. The panelists will provide an update of the status of EAST and HathiTrust, and discuss the impact of such large-scale initiatives on their member libraries. Potential opportunities for further collaboration across shared print programs will be considered as will ways in which these initiatives can drive new forms of library cooperation and act as further catalysts for collective management of library collections. Presenters: Lorraine Huddy, CTW Consortium, Connecticut Matthew Sheehy, Brandeis University Lizanne Payne, Hathi Trus

Storage of legacy print collections: the views of Australasian university librarians

This paper reports on the results of a qualitative survey conducted with seven managers of university libraries from Australia and New Zealand. The purpose of the survey was to explore both library responses to, and librarians’ attitudes towards, issues related to the long-term storage and management of legacy print collections. There is a focus on issues related to future planning for print storage, including the prospects for collaborative storage; the balance between on-site and off-site storage; the impact of mass-digitisation programs; and the desirability of collaboration outside the university library sector

Reducing the environmental impact of surgery on a global scale: systematic review and co-prioritization with healthcare workers in 132 countries

Abstract Background Healthcare cannot achieve net-zero carbon without addressing operating theatres. The aim of this study was to prioritize feasible interventions to reduce the environmental impact of operating theatres. Methods This study adopted a four-phase Delphi consensus co-prioritization methodology. In phase 1, a systematic review of published interventions and global consultation of perioperative healthcare professionals were used to longlist interventions. In phase 2, iterative thematic analysis consolidated comparable interventions into a shortlist. In phase 3, the shortlist was co-prioritized based on patient and clinician views on acceptability, feasibility, and safety. In phase 4, ranked lists of interventions were presented by their relevance to high-income countries and low–middle-income countries. Results In phase 1, 43 interventions were identified, which had low uptake in practice according to 3042 professionals globally. In phase 2, a shortlist of 15 intervention domains was generated. In phase 3, interventions were deemed acceptable for more than 90 per cent of patients except for reducing general anaesthesia (84 per cent) and re-sterilization of ‘single-use’ consumables (86 per cent). In phase 4, the top three shortlisted interventions for high-income countries were: introducing recycling; reducing use of anaesthetic gases; and appropriate clinical waste processing. In phase 4, the top three shortlisted interventions for low–middle-income countries were: introducing reusable surgical devices; reducing use of consumables; and reducing the use of general anaesthesia. Conclusion This is a step toward environmentally sustainable operating environments with actionable interventions applicable to both high– and low–middle–income countries

Els dipòsits d'emmagatzematge bibliotecari i el futur de les col·leccions impreses a Amèrica del Nord

Aquest informe, encarregat per la unitat de programes RLG (Research Libraries Group) de l'OCLC com a part del seu programa Shared Print Collections, examina el context i l'estat actual dels dipòsits d'emmagatzematge bibliotecari. S'analitzen els dissenys de dipòsits d'emmagatzematge i l'abast del seu ús; el context que dóna suport al desenvolupament i és de dipòsits d'emmagatzematge externs; les tendències clau pel que fa a arxius de revistes compartits, a serveis d'exemplar últim i d'exemplar únic, a l'"emmagatzematge virtual", a la digitalització massiva, i a la tecnologia d'escaneig local i d'impressió sota demanda; i té en consideració el futur de les col·leccions impreses de les biblioteques, així­ com el desenvolupament potencial d'una xarxa distribuïda de dipòsits de documents impresos

Shared Analysis Tools for Print Retention Programs

Shared print retention programs are faced with the challenge of managing large data sets and creating data visualizations for analysis and retention models. This panel will discuss tools used by 4 shared print retention programs – the HathiTrust Shared Print Program, the Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST), the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), and the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) Shared Print Trust. Tools covered: local/existing database, AGUA, Gold Rush and Green Glass