Acknowledgements – Partnership for Shared Book Collections

 Executive Committee

Former Members

Tina Baich, Senior Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication & Content Strategies, IUPUI University Library (FY21-FY22)
Gwen Bird, Dean of Libraries, Simon Fraser University (FY22-FY24)
Kirsten Leonard, Executive Director, PALNI (FY21-FY22)
George Machovec, Executive Director, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (FY21-FY23)
Steven Mandeville-Gamble, University Librarian, UC Riverside (FY21-FY23)
Teri Oaks Gallaway, Executive Director, SCELC (FY22-FY24)
Matt Rosendahl, Library Director, University of Minnesota Duluth (FY22-FY24)
Matthew Shaw, Dean, Ball State University Libraries (FY22-FY24)
Matthew Sheehy, University Librarian, Brandeis University (FY22-FY24)
Peggy Seiden (FY22-FY24)
Susan Stearns, Project Director, EAST (FY21-FY22)

Operations Committee

Former Members:

Caitlin Tilman,  (University of Toronto)-2023-2024

Aaron Krebeck (Washington Research Library Consortium)-2023-2024

Alison Wohlers (WEST & University of California Shared Print Program-2023-2024

Tony Fonseca (Elms College)-2023-2024

Anna Striker(CDL/WEST)-2023-2024

Melissa Gasparotto(University of Pennsylvania)-2023-2024

Matthew Sheehy (Brandeis University)-2023-2024

Matthew Revitt(University of Maine)-Member at Large-2020-2024

Gabrielle Wiersma(University of Colorado)-Member at Large-2021-2025

Allison Thome (Concordia College) – 2020-2021
Pam Jones (ConnectNY) – 2020-2022
Ian Bogus (ReCAP) – 2020-2022
Susan Stearns (EAST) -2020-2022
Paul Moeller (University of Colorado Boulder) – 2020-2022
Maggie Dull (University of Rochester) – 2022

Best Practices Standing Committee

Former Members:
Tina Baich (IUPUI) – 2018-2020
Heather Weltin
Sara Amato
Doug Brigham
Alison Wohlers (WEST) – 2018-2020
Erika Dickey (Univ. of Kansas) – 2018-2020
Mei Méndez (EAST) – 2018-2022
Tony Fonseca
Megan Gaffney
Glenn Johnson-Grau
Kathie Mason
Kurt Blythe
Keri Prelitz
Sherri Michaels
Amy Paulus
Alison Armstrong
Alison Wohlers
Heidi Nance
Glen Benedict

Completed Task Forces:
Shared Print Data Needs Task Force (2021-2022) – Alison Armstrong (Radford Univ.), Dana Jemison (CDL), Kathie Mason (Eastern Mich. U.) Mei Mendez (EAST), Matt Pavlick (Columbia U.), Heather Weltin* (HathiTrust)

See also the Acknowledgements page for those who have worked on Best Practice documents.

Best Practices Review and Assessment Tool Group

Former Members:
Tony Fonseca
Sara Amato
Nika Burns Teshin
Glen Benedict
Rebecca Crist
Heather Weltin

Communications and Advocacy Standing Committee

Former Members:

Alison Armstrong (Radford University)
John Burger (ASERL)
Tracy Gilmore (CSU, Long Beach)
Rebecca Lubas (CSU, San Bernadino)
Molly Reed (PALNI)
Susan Stearns (EAST)
Anna Striker (WEST)
Caitlin Tillman(Univ. of Toronto)
Ben Walker (FLARE)
Marie Waltz (CRL)
Michael Rodriguez (University of Connecticut)

Charlotte M. Johnson (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Aaron Krebeck (WRLC)
Leah Dunn
Tony Fonseca
Teri Koch
Patrick Carr
Galadriel Chilton 

 

Completed Task Forces:

Resource Sharing

Works on methods for building awareness about shared print to Resource Sharing library staff

Marie Waltz (CRL)
Ben Walker (FLARE)
Alison Armstrong (Radford University)

What is Shared Print Explainer Text

John Burger (ASERL)

Aaron Krebeck (WRLC) Oya Rieger (Ithaka S+R)
Anna Striker (WEST)

Deaccessioning / Weeding (2022) – Aaron Krebeck (WRLC)
Anna Striker (WEST)
Marie Waltz (CRL)
Louise White (Memorial University)

Much of the output of this standing committee is available on the Toolkit Communications page.

Infrastructure Standing Committee

Former Members:
Judy Dobry(CDL)
Melissa Gasparotto (Chair) (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Tracy Gilmore (CSU, Long Beach)
Laura Krier (Sonoma State Univ.)
Shari Laster (Arizona State University)
Alicia Rogers (Univ. of Sydney)
Steven Smith (UMass Boston)
Linda Wobbe (SCELC)
Amy Wood (CRL)
Jennifer Martin (Salisbury University) -2020-2021
Tom Teper (University of Illinois)-2020-2021
David Almodovar (Pace University) -2020-2022, Maggie Halterman-Dess (University of Iowa) – 2020-2022
Maggie Dull (Univ. of Rochester) – 2020-2022


Former Taskforces

Matching Algorithms

Explored and documented the varying level of needs in matching algorithms and the efficacy of existing algorithms used.

Sara Amato (EAST)
Ian Bogus (ReCAP)
Claudia Conrad* (CDL)
Judy Dobry (CDL)
Andy Hart (Univ of Pennsylvania)
Dana Jemison (CDL)
George Machovec (CARL)
Steve Smith (Boston Univ.)
Karla Strieb (BTAA/ Ohio State Univ.)
Raiden van Bronkhorst (CDL)

Resource Sharing

Investigate resource sharing infrastructure to support shared print programs.

Linda Wobbe* (SCELC)
Megan Gaffney (Univ. of Delaware)
Melissa Gasparotto (NYPL)
Tracy Gilmore (CSU, Long Beach)
Rachel Manning (Middlebury College)

Discovery & Access

Explore the possibilities for library systems in support of the discovery and access of retentions for monographic shared print programs.

Melissa Gasparotto (NYPL)
Tracy Gilmore (CSU LB)
Shari Laster (ASU)
Dana Victoria Lema (Univ. of Arizona)
Andrew Welch (Drake)
Scott Phinney (Univ. of South Carolina)
Alyssa Hornick (NYU)
Maggie Mason Smith (PASCAL)
Susan Bond (Univ. of Toronto)
Sarah Lindsey (UCSC)
Caitlin Bakker (Univ. of Regina)
Stacy McKenna (UCLA)
Emily Croft (Univ. of Redlands)

Defining Unique – 2020-2021

Sara Amato (EAST) David Almodovar (Pace Univ.)
Judy Dobry (CDL)
Jennifer Martin (Salisbury University)
Tom Teper (University of Illinois)

Key Documentation

• Infrastructure Standing Committee Annual Report – 2020/2021
• Shared Print Infrastructure Wishlist
• Defining Unique Bibliographic Entities for Shared Print Infrastructure
• Matching Algorithms Task Force Report (2025)

Membership Committee

Former Members:

Matthew Revitt
Mark Jacobs
Pam Jones
Cathy Martyniak
Heather McMullen
Peggy Seiden

Research and Network Level Standing Committee

Shared Print Toolkit: Former Members:

Sara Amato
Erin Engle

Matthew Revitt
Tony Fonseca
Erika Dickey (Univ. of Kansas) – 2020-2021
Winston Barham (Univ. of Virginia) – 2021
Liz Hayden (University of Ottawa) – 2020-2021
Colleen Major (Columbia University) – 2021

Value of Shared Print: Former Members:
Susan Stearns (EAST) -2020-2021

Ad Hoc Committees

Multipart Monographs: Former Members:
Elizabeth Richey (Claremont Colleges)

Research Agenda:
Pam Jones (Connect NY)