The Shared Print Metadata Guidelines Working Group is excited to continue our community discussions around the new “Shared Print Actions: Terminology.” As a reminder, we are hosting three follow-up webinars focused on different questions and discussion topics regarding the SPA draft. We wanted to encourage you to consider registering, using the links below, for each webinar you are able to attend: 

1. Tuesday, January 16 at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT
2. Tuesday, January 30 at 2pm ET/1pm CT/noon MT/11am PT 
3. Monday, February 5 at 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/noon PT

Please also feel free to share this information with the broader library community. 

The Shared Print Metadata Guidelines Working Group (SPMG) is excited to announce the release of the draft “Shared Print Actions: Terminology (SPA).” At this time, they are encouraging the community to review the document and provide comments directly on the draft. They are also asking folks to share it more broadly with relevant stakeholders in your library who may not be on the PAN listserv but have interest in this work. 

Please find the draft SPA: Terminology document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_NnpeZEye4wN61e5y7PwltTob5c7LvCB0u7kRdSquGw/edit?usp=sharing

They will be hosting a webinar on November 7, 2023 at 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/noon PT where we will officially introduce the draft and plans for approving it across the shared print community.

If you have any questions about the webinar or the draft document, please do not hesitate to contact them directly.  To learn more about the need for SPA, SPMG, or our work, please see the background document.

Save the date – November 7, 2023 at 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/noon PT 

We invite you to join us at a Partnership for Shared Book Collections and Rosemont Shared Print Alliance sponsored webinar to discuss work the Shared Print Metadata Guidelines Working Group has undertaken to draft a new “Shared Print Actions: Terminology (SPA).” This webinar will focus on introducing SPA and plans for approving it across the shared print community. This will be one of several opportunities for the community to provide feedback on the draft. Please share this invitation widely in your communities. 

The shared print community in North America relies heavily on the OCLC Shared Print Metadata Guidelines to record shared print retention commitments and other information in 583 fields in the holdings or bibliographic records. The terminology we have been leveraging for this work was developed in the early 2010s, and is based on the Preservation & Digitization Actions: Terminology for MARC 21 Field 583 (PDA). Using this language reflected the initial thinking about shared print as a preservation activity, but since that time, shared print has matured and expanded to touch all parts of the collections lifecycle.

We will be sharing a draft of the new “Shared Print Actions: Terminology (SPA)” in October so folks can start reviewing it in advance of the webinar.