Collective Collection
A Collective Collection refers to the shared resources of multiple libraries, archives, and museums. Collective Collections can be leveraged to benefit all institutional stakeholders, including researchers, scholars, students, and patrons.
OCLC Research’s Collective Collection work provides evidence and insight to support decision-making into how cultural heritage institutions organize shared collections and services. Through this work, OCLC Research is helping to create a more connected, collaborative landscape for libraries, archives, and museums, with the goal of making collections more accessible, impactful, and cost-efficient.
Presentations
The Effects of the Shift to Open on Research Libraries
Gdańsk, Poland
Last year, OCLC surveyed libraries from 82 countries around the world on their open content efforts, investments, and opinions. The majority (72% of 705 respondents) were from research and university libraries. In this session, Titia presents data from the majority group through the lens of Lorcan Dempsey’s collection directions and contextualizes the findings within the broader trend toward more openness. She also shares questions raised by the findings and suggests areas for further exploration.
Topics: Open Access, Collective Collections
Operationalizing the Collective Collection: A Case Study of Consolidation vs Autonomy
Minneapolis, MN (USA)
Dempsey presents a case study describing the benefits of consolidating collective collections and provides recommendations for managing, building, and coordinating a system-wide library.
Topics: Collective Collections
The Limits to Growth: An Introduction
Baltimore, MD (USA)
While colleagues in the circulating library have developed sophisticated collective collection strategies as an alternative to building comprehensive collections, the growth imperative has gone relatively unexamined in special collections. This panel explores our responsibilities related to resource allocation and collection growth in the age of climate change, and imagine what it might look like to alter our growth patterns.
Topics: Collective Collections
Collections, the Network, and Library Collaboration
Minneapolis, MN (USA)
Dempsey discusses the changing role of collections in research libraries and trends including inside out, facilitated, and collective collections.
Topics: Collective Collections, Collection Management, Library Consortia
Workshop - Building Shared Capacity: Collaborative Library Directions in the UK
London (UK)
Dempsey shares the history of shared library infrastructure in the UK, and delves into the implications of scaling capacity, learning, innovation, and influence.
Topics: Collective Collections
The Network Reshapes the Research Library Collection
Athlone, (Ireland)
Dempsey provides an in-depth look into library collection trends, including collective collections, reconfiguration of research work, and reconfiguration of information space.
Topics: Collective Collections
Some Collection Directions: Inside Out, Facilitated, Collective
Cincinnati, Ohio (USA)
Learn about new and evolving directions in collection management in libraries, including concepts such as inside out collections, facilitated collections, and collective collections.
Topics: Collective Collections
Collections: Inside Out, Facilitated, and Collective
West Lafayette, Indiana (USA)
In this presentation, Dempsey examines the Big Ten Academic Alliance Collective Collection, showing trends and directions in collection management for the future.
Topics: Collective Collections