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Holes in the Print Safety Net

November 25, 2018

A recent CRL analysis of three major validated JSTOR print archives found that the combined holdings of those archives are short of comprehensive.

A Sea Change (6): On North American Cooperation

September 26, 2017

Conversations at the June 2017 Expanding the Shared Collections forum helped clarify and focus CRL planning for new shared collections partnerships. 

A Sea Change (3): Building a Credible Network

March 22, 2017

Creating a “CRL consensus” on goals and standards is at the heart of CRL’s shared print agenda. Essential to establishing that consensus is CRL’s Collections and Services Policy Committee (CSPC). The CSPC was instrumental in  shaping the terms of CRL partnerships with the Linda Hall Library and the Law Library Microfilm Consortium, and  will similarly be involved in shaping terms with future partners.

A Sea Change (2): The Terms of Stewardship

March 10, 2017

Historically CRL has set a high bar for the stewardship of shared print. CRL partnerships for shared print should do no less.

A Sea Change (1): Greater Scale

February 24, 2017

The scale of the challenges of responsible collections stewardship faced by CRL libraries requires CRL to evolve from a single, shared collection to a network of repositories. A reallocation of resources to be proposed at the 2017 Council of Voting Members business meeting could enable the organization to move decisively in that direction. 

CRL's Agenda for Shared Print, 2017 - 2026

December 28, 2016

The integrity of the vast print serial collections built and long maintained by North American libraries is now in jeopardy. CRL will work, over the next ten years, to shift the onus of maintaining critical print serials collections from individual libraries to the collective, and to generate significant new benefits from those collections for researchers. 

@Risk Forum Ideas: 1. Aligning Archiving and Digitization

July 5, 2016

CRL’s 2016 @Risk Forum generated five "big ideas" that are shaping CRL's print preservation agenda. The first of those ideas, the inseparability of print preservation and electronic access, means that CRL must concentrate on three things.  

Combining, and Improving, Print Assets

March 9, 2016

Collaboration between CRL and the Linda Hall Library to digitize historical serials represents a big step in CRL’s shared print efforts.

Shedding New Light on Print Archives and Repositories

March 1, 2016

Our iterative approach to publicizing print archiving and sharing: merging data and "narrative".

@Risk: New Rigor in Stewardship and Due Diligence

December 18, 2015

As print rapidly disappears from our libraries, it is time for data-driven, community-wide consensus on due diligence.