The Ivy Plus libraries embrace a collective vision for developing and managing their collections as one great resource to support teaching, research, and scholarship. They recognize their prominent academic research collections and special collections can have greater impact when developed and managed collaboratively across institutions. Expenditures on materials have fluctuated in recent years. Monographs purchased and circulated have also varied but trended slightly upward in recent years. The scale of digital scholarship now exceeds what any one library can support individually, requiring new cooperative strategies between libraries and the scholarly community.

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collective collections
development and management
Galadriel Chilton
Director of Collections Initiatives

2. Photo by Priya Biswas

3. “The Ivy Plus libraries embrace a vision for
collection development and management
which recognizes our preeminent academic
research and special collections as one great
collection in support of the teaching,
research and public missions of our
respective institutions and the global
scholarly community.”
The Ivy Plus Libraries
Collections Group’s Vision
A map of the world with ships Duke & Dutchess’ tract round it from 1708 to 1711, by Herman Moll, geographer

4. Geographic, statistical, and historical map of Brazil

5. Photo by Veronique Debord

6. Photo by Peter Mooney

7. Photo by Fred Seibert

8. Photo by Rhino Neal

9. Photo by Crowcombe Al

10. Photo by Dawn Endico

11. From Swimmy by Leo Lionni

12. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Ivy Plus Libraries Materials Expenditures
(ARL Data for 11 Insituttions)

13. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Ivy Plus Libraries Materials Expenditures
(ARL Data for 11 Institutions)
Monogaphs Serials Bibliographic Unitilites

14. 8,976,728
8,440,835
8,604,700
8,313,537
8,205,077
7,341,305
6,917,875
813,818 706,496 721,284 1,062,105 855,937 1,429,039 1,194,994
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Ivy Plus Libraries Monographs Purchased & Circulation
(ARL Data for 12 Institutions)
Circulation Purchased Linear (Circulation) Linear (Purchased)

15. -2%
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
20%
Saudi
Arabia
Australia China Spain Brazil Indonesia India US Germany Japan Mexico Canada France Russia UK South
Korea
Book Publishing Industry Grown (2006/2007 - 2012)
Data from Eurominitor’s Passport Database

16. 247,777 266,322
295,523
282,500
296,352
407,646
561,580
1,335,475
4,152,906
1,608,751
2,352,797
200,000
700,000
1,200,000
1,700,000
2,200,000
2,700,000
3,200,000
3,700,000
4,200,000
4,700,000
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Titles Published - United States
(New Titles and New Editions with ISBNs)

17. Photo from nih.gov

18. Photo by Marcin Ejsmont

19. “Cultural expression, scholarly communication, and data are moving
toward digital modalities of creation and use. The scale of meaningful
activity in support of these shifts has clearly surpassed what libraries and
their institutions can accomplish on their own. New perspectives and
approaches are essential as the entire scholarly community addresses this
emergent context. We have both the opportunity and the responsibility to
develop a coherent strategy to advance international scholarship.”
- Dan Hazen and Deborah Jakubs

20. Photo by Don McCullough

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