This presentation was provided by Todd Carpenter of NISO, Boaz Nadav Manes of Lehigh University, and Jill Morris of PALCI, as part of the update on "The NISO Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP)" held during ALA Annual on June 24, 2023.

1. Collaborative Collections
Lifecycle Project Update
ALA Meeting
June 24, 2023
Charleston Conference, November 2, 2022

2. Project Co-PIs
Todd Carpenter, NISO
Boaz Nadav Manes, Lehigh
Jill Morris, PALCI
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3. In a nutshell, CCLP is…
The Collaborative Collections Lifecycle
Project is a partnership that’s building
governance, social and technological
infrastructure for empowering
collaboration on Values-Driven library
collections in a network-first environment.
http:/
/cclproject.org
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4. Taste of history and context…
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ITSO-CUL
WorldCat
Selection
POOF!
FOLIO and
Project
ReShare
Alma
Network
Zone
2CUL and
Technical
Services
Integratio
n
Ivies Plus
and ReCap
Selection and
Automation
Consortia
and
Excellenc
e Hubs
CCLP
GOBI
and
OASIS
“Community
Owned”
Standards
, Linked
Data, and
Identifiers
Gold Rush
COVID ,
CDL, ED&I
“Ally”,” Rialto”,
and “Unsub”
Green Glass
RLG
Conspectus
Approval
Plans
DDA/PDA
and
Amazon
AI
Automated
Catalog
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5. Thank You for the Support!
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The CCLP project was made possible in part by
the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Grant #: LG-252384-OLS-22.
For more information about this grant:
https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-252384-ols-22

6. Data is currently siloed and often disconnected from
decision-makers that need it
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Data
about
use ILS
Shared
Print
Publishers &
Content
Aggregators
Systems and
Access
Universe of Available
Collections and
Content
Consortia
Library
Library

7. GOAL:
Closing the loop
and connecting
data siloes for
improved
stewardship,
equity and
mutual
stakeholder
benefit.
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The collections we own,
license and manage, how
we acquire them, and the
models we use all
impact our ability to
share
COLL DEV / MGMT
SELECTION & ACQ
The data about sharing
has the potential to better
inform all aspects of
collection development
and management
RESOURCE SHARING
Consortia
Library
Working with
Diverse
Publishers &
Building
Bibliodiverse
Collections
Data
Data
Data
Data
Systems/
Middle-
ware

8. Defining & Incorporating Many Perspectives on
Collaborative Collections
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CCLP
Shared
Problem
Space
Publishers
&
Content
Providers
Technology /
Service & System
Providers
Consortia
and
Collaboratives
Individual
Libraries
● Tech, standards, data
exchange, &
infrastructure
● Governance,
organizational
strategy, expertise
● Funding, acquisition, &
collaboration models
● Stakeholder
engagement,
partnerships

9. CCLP’s 3 Key Functional Areas & Outputs
1. Facilitation of community conversations that incorporate diverse
stakeholder perspectives promoting alignment around and commitment to
shared challenges in scholarly communications with the goal of supporting
equity in the pursuit of learning and truth through library collections.
2. Design of organizational strategies and recommended practices for
effective and efficient collaborations supporting collections equity and access
3. Prototype of pragmatic, efficient, provider-neutral infrastructure,
middleware, technology solutions, data workflows, and recognized standards
to promote stewardship and support equity of access, usability, and diversity
of collections
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10. 10
CCLP Organizational Structure

11. Work Plan for CCLP
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Phase 3
● Build a functional roadmap of
key components of the
needed infrastructure
● Model a community-based
implementation structure
● Develop prototype
middleware tools where
those tools do not exist
● Promote adoption and
understanding
Phase 1
IMLS Grant submitted in
March 2022, Awarded in
August
New work item approved
to launch CCLIP work in
NISO
Phase 2
● Development of a community
governance structure
● Assessing and documenting the
landscape and classifying
existing standards
● Develop model workflows, model
user experience & identify where
systems improvements are
needed to be made

12. Work so far…
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13. Thank you, Steering Group Members
Kim Armstrong, Orbis
Cascade Alliance
Todd Carpenter, NISO
(Project PI)
Jeff Carroll, Rutgers
University
Raym Crow, SPARC,
Independent
Consultant
Jason Friedman,
Canadian Research
Knowledge Network
Sebastian Hammer,
Index Data
Michael Levine-Clark,
University of Denver
George Machovec,
Colorado Alliance of
Research Libraries
Carolyn Morris, Ingram
Jill Morris, PALCI (Co-PI)
Boaz Nadav Manes,
Lehigh University (Co-PI)
Wendy Queen, Project
MUSE
Joe Salem, Duke
University
Rebecca Seger, ITHAKA
Roger Schonfeld,
ITHAKA S+R
Kornelia Tancheva,
University of Pittsburgh
Glen Wiley, University
of Miami
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14. Development of a Strategic Outline
Mission
Through collaboration and innovation with trusted partners in an interoperable,
community-owned infrastructure, CCLP will create best practices, improve standards, and
develop prototype middleware to empower value-driven library collecting, increase collection
diversity, availability and access, and improve stewardship and institutional efficiency in a
collaboration-first environment.
Vision
Our vision is for a world in which all libraries may have and steward equitable, financially
sustainable, and efficient access to library resources and the scholarly record by fostering an
ecosystem of interoperable systems, standards, and open collaboration among libraries,
publishers, and service providers.
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15. Guiding Principles
1. Build intentional and inclusive partnerships, process, and governance with a commitment to open dialogue
that engages representatives from all dimensions of the collections lifecycle, with strategic direction,
contributions, and co-ownership coming from all stakeholders who share the project’s goals
2. Support and use provider-neutral approaches to collaborative collections lifecycle activities, processes, and
technologies
3. Prioritize interoperability and actively engage in the development and/or implementation of recognized
standards as they relate to collaborative collections activities
4. Promote mutual understanding, shared responsibility, and stewardship of limited collections resources and
capacity
5. Create cost-effective, efficient, and highly usable solutions that support libraries’ missions and the ability
of publishers, vendors, technology providers, and other partners to respond to those needs
6. Enhance libraries’ ability to provide and support collection diversity and accessibility of those collections
for diverse user needs
7. Respect all stakeholders’ needs and sensitivity to data privacy and security
8. Engage with the challenges of access and acquisition models in a collaborative environment, with
particular consideration for the models and mechanisms to support collaboration for and with open content
9. Adapt in order to remain grounded in pragmatism, articulated community need, and research
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16. Steering Committee…
● Next step: co-designing a shared definition and framework for the
Collaborative Collections Lifecycle, iteratively and together with
Working Groups
○ Definitions
○ Scoping & Prioritization
○ Drafting and iterating Working Group charges
○ Project oversight and coordination
○ Communication and outreach
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17. NISO CCLIP Recommended Practice Working Groups Charged
1. Collection Development, Co-chaired by Bill Maltarich and & Eva
Jurczyk
2. Infrastructure, Co-chaired by Kris Maloney and Rob Cartolano
3. Organizational Strategy & Governance, Co-chaired by Mike Gorrell
and Boaz Nadav Manes
Participants List: https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cclip
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18. 18
CCLP Organizational Structure

19. The Organizational Strategy and Governance working group will develop recommendations for how collections
lifecycle activities should operate strategically and be governed across different institutions in a common
infrastructure. It is expected to be underway for about 10 months. NISO seeks participation from deans and
directors of libraries and collections analysts and strategists.
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● Affirming the charge and function of the group
● Discuss norms/gaps related to fiscal issues and
dependencies
● Discuss norms/gaps related to managing collaborative
collections
● Discuss norms/gaps related to institutional buy-in

20. Technical Product Development Lead Team
Sebastian Hammer, Carolyn Morris, and Boaz Nadav Manes
● Funding for UX will enable the beginning of the tooling efforts.
● Design thinking with a focus on selection tasks will contribute to further CCLP
recommendations around data sources and what is a high, medium, and low priority.
● Beginning of iterative prototyping and development of network-first infrastructure will
highlight further areas of interoperability and standardization.
● Mix of community and grant funded development resourcing will contribute to a better
understanding and development of community owned projects and their governance.
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21. Research Team led by Ithaka S+R
Oya Rieger and Roger Schonfeld
Deliverables include:
● Landscape analysis
● 8 collaborative collections lifecycle related case studies
● Report with recommendations on organizational strategy, barriers,
including gaps in infrastructure/standards/etc., and learnings to
support CCLP prototype middleware development and community
organization.
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22. Why Open Infrastructure Matters
Our platforms are critical to us, and often dictate the way we do our work, even in the
form of RFPs for future platforms.
● Platforms benefit from aggregating services and users.
● These advantages drive us towards monopolies. HARMFUL
Open platform models:
● Set higher expectations for standards and compliance
● Leverage standards for scaled implementation
● Support opportunities for shared governance and visions developed by
stakeholders
● Provide distributed opportunities for innovation. GOOD FOR BUSINESS
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23. Interoperability is the key
● For cross-institutional collaboration to be successful, there will need
to be based on systems-neutral interoperability, since not every
participant in a collaborative network should be required to use the
same system.
● Inherently, the collections lifecycle process crosses across a variety of
systems, acquisitions, discovery, LMS, order processing, library service
platforms, and vendor processing systems.
● Collections, circulation, and usage analysis systems also need to
exchange data for effective processing.
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24. The role of publishers in this process
1) The vision of CCLP isn’t that libraries will purchase less,
but purchase more effectively and acquire more diverse
collections
2) Publishers will benefit from more visibility of their
long-tail content in the acquisitions ecosystem
3) Potential for improved analytics from the ecosystem
4) Metadata exchange between libraries and publishers -
potential new business/workflows arrangements
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25. Why we’re engaged… Aligning on Strategies for
Consortia
1) Radically rethinking our operations: the why (aligning
to values), the what, and the how in order to build the
future we need
2) Reframing what we do collaboratively and individually
to ensure our diverse systems talk to each other
3) Community ownership wherever possible - AGENCY
4) Strategic Innovation
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26. Community-owned initiatives and platforms
● Community and shared governance should provide opportunities for
engagement and on-ramps for shared contributions and
community influence
● Strategic/shared vision informs roadmap and vice versa
● Room for diverse stakeholders
● Leverage diverse expertise with different expert groups within
organizations
● Open invitation to participate
● Getting this right depends on you being at the table, contributing
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27. Questions?
Project URL: http://cclproject.org
Email us:
jill@palci.org Jill Morris
tcarpenter@niso.org Todd Carpenter
bon219@lehigh.edu Boaz Nadav Manes
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