This presentation was provided by Elizabeth Kirk of Harvard University, during the NISO event "Where Does it Live? Storing Collections On and Off Campus, Part One" held on December 11, 2019
Hierarchy of management that covers different levels of management
Kirk "Welcome To The 90,000,000-Volume Library: Amplifying the Impact of Print Collections in the Ivys Plus Libraries Confederation"
1. Welcome To The 90,000,000-
Volume Library
Amplifying the Impact of Print Collections in
the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation
Elizabeth E. Kirk
Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources
Harvard University
2. What is the Ivy Plus (IPLC)?
Brown, University of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,
Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, University of Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Stanford, Yale
Started as a small peer resource-sharing network (BorrowDirect)
Provides borrowing/lending and on-site privileges
3. BorrowDirect, the invisible hand
Incredibly popular (JHU: “I borrowdirected that book for my
class…”)
Easy, quick way to gain access to materials from libraries like
your own
A place to study when you visit friends
Patrons used to stored collections
4. Amplifying the impact, collectively
Move from the invisible hand toward an intentional future
Create a vision for who we can be together: “The Ivy Plus
libraries embrace a vision for collection development and
management which recognizes these preeminent resources as a
single great collective collection, as rich and boundless as the
imaginations of the students and scholars they engage.”
Collect collectively, especially print
5. OK, how?
Bring selectors together
Be patient
Don’t try American history first
Honor peer strengths and contributions
Different approaches to different subjects
Different libraries have different goals for participating, and
that’s OK
MOUs breed confidence
Much talking and listening are required. For a long, long time.
6. Examples of current initiatives
Contemporary composers: scores
Brazilian published literature: sharing regions
Web archiving
“Sharing” special collections: Aeon pilot
Collections analysis feasibility: how do you analyze a dataset this
big?
7. Next steps
Shared index: making it visible to patrons
Data lakes for analysis and assessment
Understanding print retention strategies
Learning from our smaller collaborations (ReCAP, H+MIT, TRLN)
Make it work for the patron
8. Amplifying the impact at home
The collective collection is our collection
Magnify our efforts to ensure inclusion in the collection
Less duplication of published literature internally and across the
collective
Be less common, be more extraordinary (unique, distinctive, and
special collections)