Library Collaboration Research

Redefining the Library Experience: Shaping Future Engagement with Communities

1 April 2025

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Lesley A. Langa

Provides insight into how library leaders and staff expect changing library experiences to create more meaningful engagement and positive impacts in the next five to ten years. 

Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada

8 November 2024

Ian Bogus, Rachel Frick, Devon Smith, Susan Stearns, and Alison Wohlers

Analyzes shared print retention data from the OCLC Shared Print Registry and OCLC WorldCat to support collective collection stewardship. This report was written in collaboration between OCLC and the Partnership for Shared Book Collections.

Specialized and Decentralized: Stewardship of the Art Research Collective Collection

7 November 2024

Chela Scott Weber, Mercy Procaccini, Dennis Massie, Brian Lavoie

Shares findings and recommendations from the Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Collection project to provide art libraries with important resources as they seek to address their sustainability challenges through collaborative approaches.

Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration

11 December 2023

Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Amanda K. Rinehart

Provides recommendations about collaborating to acquire RDM capacity based on three case studies of existing partnerships that empower libraries to build successful and sustainable collaborations.

Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration

18 April 2023

Dennis Massie, Chela Scott Weber, Mercy Procaccini, Brian Lavoie

This report shares recommendations for building successful collaborations and identifies typical challenges library partnerships navigate based on case study research of current art library collaborations.

Sustaining Art Research Collections: Using Data to Explore Collaboration

15 February 2023

Brian Lavoie, Dennis Massie, Chela Scott Weber

This report explores collaboration opportunities between art, academic, and independent research libraries by analyzing WorldCat bibliographic and holdings data and WorldShare interlibrary loan transaction data.

Library Collaboration as a Strategic Choice: Evaluating Options for Acquiring Capacity

11 August 2022

Brian Lavoie

This report delivers tools and insights to support academic libraries in making strategic decisions about cross-institutional collaboration opportunities to acquire capacity.

 

New Model Library: Pandemic Effects and Library Directions

28 October 2021

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ixchel M. Faniel, Brittany Brannon, Joanne Cantrell, Christopher Cyr, Brooke Doyle, Peggy Gallagher, Kem Lang, Brian Lavoie, Janet Mason, and Titia van der Werf

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted libraries of all types around the world, requiring library leaders to respond to rapidly shifting community and institutional needs. This briefing shares how leaders adapted during the pandemic and what they envision moving forward to help libraries plan strategically.

 

Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise

20 August 2020

Rebecca Bryant, Annette Dortmund, Brian Lavoie

The report defines social interoperability and describes the network of campus units involved in major areas of university research support services. It concludes by offering recommendations for cultivating successful cross-campus relationships.

Operationalizing the BIG Collective Collection: A Case Study of Consolidation vs Autonomy

20 August 2019

Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas, Mark Sandler

The proposed framework recommends strategies for advancing the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s (BTAA) collective collections toward a more purposeful coordination of their print collections. It defines four traits of a purposeful collective collection that can also apply broadly to other consortium settings.