Research Announcements
Alison Wohlers
In 2022, the Partnership for Shared Book Collections* charged a task force to investigate bibliographic matching algorithms (original charge) – a critical foundation for building and leveraging shared collections. Matching algorithms underpin a range of key decisions and workflows in managing retained collections and any related deaccessioning. The Shared Print...
Sara Amato
Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada is the result of a collaborative research project between OCLC and the former Partnership for Shared Book Collections, which has since united with the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance to form a new organization: the Shared...
Aaron Krebeck
The Shared Print Metadata Guidelines Task Force (SPMG) is pleased to share that the Shared Print Actions: Terminology for MARC 21 Field 583 is now finalized and ready for use by shared print programs and library practitioners. The Library of Congress has assigned this terminology a resource action code, spa,...
Nika Worth
The Partnership for Shared Book Collections is pleased to share that the Resource Sharing Task Force of the Research and Network Level Standing Committee has recently concluded their work and finished their final report. Please join us in issuing congratulations to the task force and a huge thank you for...
Nika Worth
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...
Nika Worth
The Partnership for Shared Book Collections is pleased to share that the Risk Research Task Force of the Research and Network Level Standing Committee has recently had their paper titled, “A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections”, published in College and Research...