Conference Schedule
October 28, 2026
11am-2pm EDT (GMT-4)
Quick Overview
Hour 1: 11am-12pm EDT (GMT-4)
- Intro and brief SPP update (15 minutes)
- Keynote (30 min + 15 min Q and A)
- Boaz Nadav-Manes
Hour 2: 12pm-1pm EDT (GMT-4)
- Break (10 minutes)
- First 4 Lightning Round Talks (25 minutes, starting at 12:10pm EDT)
- Silke Sewing
- Andreas Andersson
- Stacy Brunner
- Asuka Muranishi
- Q & A (15 minutes)
- Break (10 min)
Hour 3: 1pm-2pm EDT (GMT -4)
- Second 4 Lightning Talks (25 minutes) (starting at 1pm EDT)
- Karla Strieb
- Colleen Mullally
- Leanna Goodwater
- Jason Burke Murphy
- Q & A (15 minutes)
- general discussion (20 minutes)
Detailed Schedule
SPP Update
11am-11:15am EDT(GMT-4)
Tony Fonseca
Director of Alumnae Library & College Archivist, Elms College
Chair of the SPP Executive Committee
Laura Aydelotte
SPP Program Coordinator
Keynote: Boaz Nadav-Manes
11:15am-11:45am EDT(GMT-4)
Collections Without Borders
Boaz Nadav-Manes
University Librarian
Lehigh University
Cyclops, Shared Print, and What Ukraine Teaches Us About Collective Stewardship
What if the most valuable resource in a shared collection isn’t the collection itself?
Emerging from the IMLS funded Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP), Cyclops invites us to imagine what it might mean for libraries to plan more deliberately in unison and what it takes to connect many organizations in ways that make collective action daily and practical.
Building on the foundations of shared print, Collections Without Borders asks us to reconsider the boundaries of the collective collection. The “borders” are no longer only geographic or institutional – they also shape how we plan, participate, make decisions, and understand our responsibilities to one another. Through the urgent lens of Ukraine, the keynote explores what becomes possible when we begin to see the network itself as part of the collection we are building and safeguarding together.
Boaz Nadav-Manes is the University Librarian at Lehigh University and a leader in collaborative collections and open library infrastructure. His work focuses on developing practical ways for libraries to plan and act collectively across institutional boundaries. He has been closely involved with CCLP, Cyclops, FOLIO, Project ReShare, and other national and consortial initiatives, and currently serves on the Board of the Center for Research Libraries and The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST).
Keynote Q&A
11:45am-12:00pm EDT(GMT-4)
10 Minute Break
12:00pm-12:10pm EDT(GMT-4)
Lightning Talks Round 1
12:10pm-12:35pm EDT(GMT-4)
From National Shared Print Initiatives to an International Retention Layer: The German Experience and the PDA/SPA Challenge
Silke Sewing
Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
The talk will introduce selected shared print and retention initiatives in Germany and Austria, including storage consortia and cooperative last-copy preservation programmes. It would briefly compare the terminology and approaches of Print Preservation Action (PDA) and Shared Print Agreement (SPA), highlighting questions of interoperability and the consistent description of retention commitments.
Building on this experience, I will outline the idea of an international retention layer that could make existing commitments discoverable across national catalogues and library systems. With MARC 583 and established identifiers such as ISSN much of the necessary groundwork already exists. The key question is how these existing data and initiatives could be connected internationally to support coordinated collection management, prevent uncoordinated withdrawals and strengthen the resilience of print collections.
Modelling Shared Print Actions as Linked Data
Andreas Andersson
Metadata and National Bibliography Unit
National Library of Sweden
Sweden is set to launch its shared print programme, Shared Print Sweden, in the national linked data union catalogue. This presentation outlines how Shared Print Actions (SPA) and MARC field 583 have been modelled in this setting. While the 583 notes in MARC have been enhanced with guidelines and a controlled vocabulary, its structure reflects a compromise where fundamentally different types of actions are expressed within a single framework. This creates challenges when translating the SPA model into a coherent linked data representation.
Shared Print's Missing Link: Registration
Stacy Brunner
OCLC · Senior Product Manager, Decision Support
Registering your retention commitments in WorldCat does more than announce what you’re keeping. It makes those commitments actionable for every library that relies on them. A deselection decision. A collection development call. A resource sharing request. Each one depends on another library’s commitment being registered and findable. I’ll cover why registration matters, how the process works, and what it takes to get started.
Trends and Issues of Shared Print in Japan
Asuka Muranishi
Nagoya University Library, Japan
Shared Print has not yet been fully established in Japan, but there is a lot of interest in the concept. Ms Muranishi will provide a perspective on ways shared print colleagues in Japan are working toward a shared print initiative and how they might begin to join the international shared print conversation and collaboration.
Q&A
12:35pm-12:50pm EDT(GMT-4)
10 Minute Break
12:50pm-1:00pm EDT(GMT-4)
Lightning Talks Round 2
1:00pm-1:25 EDT(GMT-4)
How Does Shared Print Become a Shared Collection?
Karla Strieb
Visiting Program Director for Shared Collections, Center for Library Programs
Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA)
Shared print programs often begin as retention initiatives. But what happens when a small group of large libraries commit to creating a print collection that they actively build, manage, and invest in together? Undeniably, risk management coupled with space management have seeded a range of shared print initiatives, but can a shared collection be more? Looking at print collection strategy with a broader lens, the libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance are now initiating ongoing development of their distributed shared book collection. How do members understand their shared collection and how is it challenging them to rethink their local collection strategy and deepen their understanding of shared collection strategy? What infrastructures have they built together to allow them to create new value for their users and their libraries?
Conducting a Survey on the Physical Health of Pepperdine Libraries Circulating Collections and Shared Print Commitments
Colleen Mullally
Associate University Librarian for Collections, Technical Services, and Scholarly Communication
Pepperdine University
In 2026, the Pepperdine Libraries Preservation Committee assessed the overall physical health of circulating print books across its Southern California locations including the Malibu campus, graduate campus centers, and the annex facility. Over a third of the 450 titles examined in the random survey sample are books that Pepperdine has committed to retain as part of our institutions’ commitment to SCELC’s Shared Print Program. Work to establish this type of baseline for understanding the condition of our circulating collections had not been undertaken before. This talk will provide an overview of the methodology used and share some of our findings, including paper acidity and brittleness and book wear and tear.
When the Unthinkable Happens: The Effects of a Campus Closure on the SCELC Shared Print Program
Leanna Goodwater
Member, SCELC Shared Print Steering Committee
Humanities Librarian
University Library Santa Clara University
In late 2022, SCELC member institution and longstanding Shared Print Program participant, Holy Names University, declared bankruptcy and announced that the campus would close after its spring 2023 semester. The Chair at that time of the SCELC Shared Print Committee will give a brief overview of the challenges posed by HNU’s closure, and how the entire SCELC Shared Print Program community collaborated to resolve the political and practical problems raised by losing one of the Program’s founding members and an important node in the network. The talk will conclude by examining how we can prepare better for such closures in the future, not only within SCELC’s Program, but also by working within the shared print community on the national level cooperatively to respond better to the growing trend of campus mergers and closures, as we work together to preserve our common cultural heritage.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: preserving print as all content becomes temporary
Jason Burke Murphy
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Elms College
I will tell three short stories. One about a book I found in our college library. A second about the fragility of some essays I wrote. And, third, about publishers disappearing and books changing overnight. My conclusion is likely widely shared by almost all of us at this conference. We need more intentional, discerning, curation and preservation of academic and cultural material. Every start-up organization knows it needs a webmaster and a lawyer. We need to tell them that they need a curator as well.
Q&A
1:25-1:40pm EDT(GMT-4)
Concluding Discussion
1:40pm-2:00pm EDT(GMT-4)