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During the Summit for Shared Print in the Collection Lifecycle Greg Eow (President, Center for Research Libraries), Mike Furlough (Executive Director, HathiTrust), and Günter Waibel (Associate Vice Provost & Executive Director, California Digital Library) opened with a talk on the value of collaboration. You can now read their remarks in the Summit for Shared Print in the Collection Lifecycle opening transcript.

On December 1st & 2nd of 2021, the Collaboration hosted a summit bringing together the shared print community, library functional experts, and service providers to create an action plan to embed shared print in the collections lifecycle. 

On January 12th & 24th of 2022, the Collaboration held two post-summit webinars to report out on the summit, its outcomes, and next steps. 

Summit documentation and outcomes, as well as post-summit webinar slides, recording, and notes are all available on on the CCH website under the header “After the Summit.” 

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Slides for this presentation.

Dear colleagues,

The future of print collections is shared. Embedding shared print within the lifecycle of library collections promotes equity of access, enriches the scholarly record, and increases opportunity for research and teaching. A well-developed, collaborative, and interoperable infrastructure ensures we will realize the full potential of our networks and their collective collections. 

This is why we were proud to announce at the Print Archive Network Forum in January 2020, that  the California Digital Library (CDL), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and HathiTrust (HT), with the support of the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance and the Partnership for Shared Book Collections, will work together to build on a decade of collaboration, innovation and expertise to define a new phase of shared print built on open and interconnected infrastructure. 

This collaborative effort is emerging from the rich background of local and regional shared print programs’ expansion, interconnection, and technical innovation. We see an opportunity for our three organizations (CDL, CRL, and HT) to step into a facilitative leadership role, to gather the threads of the broader community’s considerable efforts and to advance shared print’s transition to a new phase of integration and interoperability.

This new phase coalesces the regional work into a strategic national effort. Working together in a coordinated fashion, we can assemble, preserve, and make accessible a more expansive and diverse shared collection for the scholarly community.

Over the last two months, CDL, CRL, and HT have met regularly and outlined a mission, vision, principles and assumptions to serve as anchors, or touchpoints, to ensure that this work reflects the values and needs of our broader community. You can find these in the attached document. Each of these draws on the combined expertise of our three organizations, as well as the work of the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance and the Partnership for Shared Book Collections. We welcome comments or questions. Please feel free to reach out to Alison Wohlers (alison.wohlers@ucop.edu), Amy Wood (wood@crl.edu), or Heather Weltin (weltin@hathitrust.org). 

We want this effort to remain embedded in the community it is meant to serve and we want to engage that community meaningfully in the work. Therefore, we are developing a communications strategy that sets out an intentional course of action in the area of both internal and external communications to highlight this project’s priorities, values, achievements, services, and activities that are planned through 2020 and beyond.

Together we will achieve a shared print collection that in its scale and breadth represents the future of sustainable collection development and management. Our organizations look forward to going on this journey with the rest of the shared print community. 

Sincerely,

Greg Eow, President, Center for Research Libraries

Mike Furlough, Executive Director, HathiTrust

Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director, California Digital Library