Consortial shared print archiving: perspectives from Canada

What is it about?

Sharing resources have proved positive for academic libraries in Hong Kong in numerous areas, such as consortial circulation agreements and negotiations of vendor pricing for shared library management tools. However, it has been less successful in areas where collaboration may require concrete concessions by individual institutions. This paper also details an on the fly strategy for print deduplication for a library with a space crisis in a consortium with no central collection management strategy.

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Why is it important?

This paper, coupled with external factors such as lack of government prioritisation for central print storage projects, led to the creation of a consortial distributed print working group and a Memorandum of Understanding within the JULAC library consortium in Hong Kong