Below are a selection of publications in scholarly journals and blogs as well as significant reports, white papers, press releases, and other online publications. They represent research performed by SPP members or close affiliates as well as research and press that addresses shared print activity. These articles include work produced by the Partnership for Shared Book Collections and Rosemont Shared Print Alliance prior to the merger that formed the SPP. If there is published work not represented here that you think should be, please reach out to us at info@sharedprint.org.
Journal, Blog, & Monograph Publications
- Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada
Full Citation: Bogus, Ian, Rachel Frick, Devon Smith, Susan Stearns, and Alison Wohlers (2024). Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. https://doi.org/10.25333/11f9-rw57 - Assessing Bibliographic Inaccuracy as a Contributing Factor for Unintended Loss in Shared Print Monograph Programs
Full Citation: Levenson, Helen N., Sara Amato, Ian Bogus, Fern E Brody, Mary Miller, Jacob Nadal “Assessing Bibliographic Inaccuracy as a Contributing Factor for Unintended Loss in Shared Print Monograph Programs,” College & Research Libraries 85, no.7 (Nov 2024). https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.85.7.1021 - College Closures and the Implications for Libraries and Vendors
Full Citation: Rodriguez, Michael, “College Closures and the Implications for Libraries and Vendors,” The Scholarly Kitchen, The Society for Scholarly Publishing (Sept 5, 2024). https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/09/05/college-closures/ - A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections
Full Citation: Bogus, Ian, Candace Arai Yano, Shannon Zachary, Jacob Nadal, Mary Miller, Helen N. Levenson, Fern Brody, Sara Amato, “A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections,” College & Research Libraries 84, no. 5 (Sept 2023). - When Will the Library Be Open?
Full Citation: Banush, David. “When Will the Library be Open?” Inside Higher Ed (Nov. 14, 2021). - Monograph: Transforming Print: Collection Development and Management for Our Connected Future
Full Citation: McAllister, Lorrie, Shari Laster, Transforming Print: Collection Development and Management for Our Connected Future. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2021. - Conducting an Inventory with Shared Print in Mind (pdf)
Full Citation: Michaels, S., & Neel, B. (2021). Conducting an Inventory with Shared Print in Mind. Collection Management, 46(2), 142–156. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2020.1818343 - Taking Shared Print to the Next Level: The Partnership for Shared Book Collections
Full Citation: Stearns, S., Revitt, M., & Leonard, K. (2020). Taking Shared Print to the Next Level: The Partnership for Shared Book Collections. Journal of Library Administration, 60(7), 812–820. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2020.1803020 - Reflections on Collective Collections – OCLC Research preprint
Full Citation: Lavoie, Brian, Lorcan Dempsey, and Constance Malpas. “Reflections on Collective Collections,” College & Research Libraries 81, no. 6 (September, 2020). - Shared Print on the Threshold
Full Station: Stearns, Susan and Wohlers, Alison, “Shared Print on the Threshold: Looking Back and Forging the Future,” Collaborative Librarianship: Vol. 12 : Iss. 2 , Article 5 (2020). - Taking Shared Print to the Next Level (pdf)
Susan Stearns , Matthew Revitt & Kirsten Leonard, “Taking Shared Print to the Next Level: The Partnership for Shared Book Collections,” Journal of Library Administration
60, no. 7, 812-820 (2020), DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2020.1803020 - Collective Collections (wikipedia page, written by the Outreach ad Engagement Working Group in Dec. 2019)
- Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost
Full Citation:Maiorana, Zachary, Ian Bogus, Mary Miller, Jacob Nadal, Katie Risseeuw, Jennifer Hain Teper, “Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost,” College & Research Libraries 80, no. 7 (Nov. 2019) - Using standard numbers to conduct a serial item-level holdings analysis of the ReCAP partners’ collections
Full Citation:Keller, Shannon, Wood, Amy, “Using Standard Numbers to Conduct a Serial Item-Level Holdings Analysis of the ReCAP Partners’ Collections,” International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (2019), https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6519 - The Future of Campus Libraries? ‘Sticky Interdependence’ (requires Chronicle of Higher Ed access)
Full Citation: Ellis, Lindsay, “The Future of Campus Libraries? ‘Sticky Interdependence,'” Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 9, 2019).
- Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost
- Pays to Share
Full Citation: Kolowich, Steve, Inside Higher Ed (Mar. 15, 2011).
Video Research Presentations
- Assessing the Physical Condition of the National Collection – Aug. 2023
Video of research presentation at the Library of Congress - CCH Collaboration webinar Embedding Shared Print – A Year of New Approaches recording available. See also their public Summit folder and website – Nov 2022
- CRL, CDL & HathiTrust Collaboration posted “Shared Print in the Collections Lifecycle” webinar recordings – May 2021
- Inclusive Models to Sustain Shared Print and the Future of Print Collections on demand presentation at ACRL 2021 now available – May 2021
- What’s mine is yours: Collaborating to protect print collections – OCLC webinar
- Weed ’em and Reap – OCLC recorded webinar
Reports, Whitepapers, Press Releases, and More
- Matching Algorithms Task Force releases its final report – June 2024
- The Big Ten Shared Print Collection White Paper – Dec 2024
- OCLC partners with SCELC to advance diversity in shared print using Choreo Insights library analytics – May 2023
- Shared Print Collections Continue to Grow as More Library Consortia Participate – March 2023
- SCELC Partners with Auto-Graphics to Offer One-Year Pilot Shared Print Discovery Catalog – Nov. 2022
- NISO Awarded IMLS Grant for Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project – Aug 2022
- C&RL News places Shared Print in the Top Trends list – June 2022
- NISO Awarded Mellon Funding for Controlled Digital Lending Project – Sept 2021
- CRL, CDL & HathiTrust Collaboration release their latest ‘Shared Print Lifecycle‘ document – June 2021
- Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust Program Assessment available – April 2021
- CRL, CDL & HathiTrust Collaboration announce their 2021 Strategic Plan
- CRL, CDL & HathiTrust Collaboration launch website and comparison tool – January 2021
- Final Report of the Canadian Collective Print Strategy Working Group (English | French) – September 2020
- The BIG Collection: Commitment to an Interdependent Future
- EAST Expands with “Florida Cohort”
- CARL and LAC Co-Lead National Shared Print Project