The document summarizes the progress and plans of the Maine Shared Collections Strategy, a collaboration between libraries in Maine to share print book collections. It discusses establishing staff and communication systems, managing the collaboration between multiple library types and systems, and plans for the next 12 months including finalizing agreements, collection analysis, and improving resource sharing. The goal is to maintain momentum in developing a flexible shared print collections strategy.

1. MAINTAINING MOMENTUM AND
FLEXIBILITY
Maine Shared Collections Strategy
Deb Rollins, University of Maine
Shared Print Monographs: Making it Work
Charleston Pre-Conference - November 7, 2012

2. PROGRESS TO DATE
 Staff
 Web site http://www.maineinfonet.net/mscs/
 OCLC Reclamation
 Presentations
 MOU
 Custom Data
 583 subfield

3. COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
 Committees/groups
 Board members
 Project Team
 Process modes
 Output

4. MANAGEMENT ISSUES
 Multitype libraries
 ILS
 People
 Decision Making
 Change

5. CHANGE
 Espresso machine
 Hathi Trust
 Reclamation
 WorldCat Collection Analysis

6. PARTICIPANT INVESTMENT
 Yes
 No

7. THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
 MOU
 OCLC symbols
 ILS
 POD/EOD
 Diving into data