CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface, by Dawn Hale

Part I. Building Shared Collections

One. Collaboration

The Master Key to Unlocking Twenty-First Century Library Collections

Karla L. Strieb

Two. Sustainable Governance and Business Models for Shared Print Collections

Lizanne Payne

Three. Scarce and Endangered Works

Using Network-Level Holdings Data in Preservation Decision-Making and Stewardship of the Printed Record

Jacob Nadal, Annie Peterson, and Dawn Aveline

Part II. Shared Collections: Case Studies

Four. Creating a Regional Print Serial Program

Rebecca Crist

Five. Exploring Collaborative Stewardship of Government Information in the Southeast

The ASERL Collaborative Federal Depository Program

Cheryle Cole-Bennett, Sandra McAninch, and Heath Martin

Six. Maine Shared Collections Strategy

A Statewide Approach to Shared Print Collections

Matthew Revitt

Seven Cooperative Collection Development

The Manhattan Research Library Initiative, Electronic Books, and the Scholarly Monograph at Risk

Angela CarreƱo and William Maltarich

Eight. Mile High Cooperation

Demand-Driven Acquisition in the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

Michael Levine-Clark, Allison V. Level, Joan G. Lamborn, and George Machovec

Nine. Give Them What They Need

Rethinking Management, Aggregation, and Access for Digital Collections at the University of California

Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell

Part III. Future Directions

Ten. Risk, Value, Responsibility, and the Collective Collection

John McDonald and Robert H. Kieft

About the Authors

Index