Executive Director National Information Standards Organization
Networks of libraries have a long tradition of working together to expand their resources and provide more comprehensive coverage across all subjects through sharing of resources. As one of these strategies, larger networks of institutions have recently explored wider adoption of cooperative collections management, a process by which networks of institutions work collaboratively to acquire, manage, circulate, and preserve collections across the network. The NISO Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) seeks to overcome serious barriers to wider implementations, including the lack of available vendor-neutral interoperable systems, adequate governance and decision-making frameworks, and assessment tools. The infrastructure will create a suite of best practices, improved standards, and middleware for the development and management of collective collections and will support varied implementation models, data interoperability, and sharing of expertise across a range of institutions and consortia. This session will describe the work at a high level and also provide an update on recent actions that have been taken under the auspices of funding from IMLS, including NISO working groups creating a Recommended Practice, ITHAKA S+R research, and user interface prototyping. For more info: https://www.niso.org/events/niso-ala-annual-2024
