Shared Print Roundup: Q1 2025

Even though we’re only three months into 2025, there have already been many exciting updates, webinars, and articles from community members across shared print! Below is a roundup of shared print news and events from January and February, and registration information for an upcoming event in March.

In January, shared print news kicked off at the Print Archive Network (PAN) Midwinter Forum on Friday, January 24th, where we heard a variety of updates about work happening both at the regional and bi-national levels, and enjoyed several presentations, including a presentation from CDL’s own Alison Wohlers. The presentations and a brief takeaway are included below. Click the title of each presentation to view the complete slide deck:

• The Shared Print Partnership Update (Scott Warren, Senior Associate Dean for Research Excellence, Syracuse University and Joseph Hafner, Dean, York Universities Libraries) 
  • • A brief overview of the evolution of the national shared print federation, The Shared Print Partnership, a discussion of where we are now including the SPP’s Vision, Mission, and Values and Strategic Directions, and brief look at what’s next for the SPP.
• Minnesota Shared Print Program Update (Gerri Moeller, Associate Director for Resource Sharing and Delivery, Minitex) 
  • An overview of the Minitex Shared Print Program, covering the history of the project since its inception as a pilot project in 2016, it’s current policies and guidelines, and some challenges encountered so far. 
• North: The Canadian Shared Print Network & Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) Update (Katya Pereyaslavska, Coordinator, Shared Print Archiving Network Program, COPPUL) 
  • An overview of shared print in a Canadian context, looking at the National Level through North/Nord, and the regional level through SPAN, ending with the question of: What can we as a group start doing to make sure shared print stays viable moving forward?
• Managing Retention Commitments for the Long-Term Stewarding the Collective Collection Research (Devon Smith, Technical Manager, OCLC Research; and Alison Wohlers, UC/ WEST Shared Print Program Manager) 
  • A look at background and key findings from, Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada by Ian Bogus, Rachel Frick, Devon Smith, Susan Stearns, and Alison Wohlers, which was published in November of 2024.
• Managing a Shared Collection in a Changing World (Matthew Revitt, Maine Shared Collections Librarian, University of Maine)
  • Takeaways from MSCC’s 2023 Program Assessment and an overview of MSCC’s strategy for reviewing retention commitments, both manually and using Alma Analytics.
• Governance and Business Models for Collaborative Collection Development Research (Tracy Bergstrom, Program Manager, Collections and Infrastructure, Ithaka S+R)
  • Overview of the Ithaka S+R Consultancy for the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP), including highlighted findings from their project final report which was published in August, 2024.

In February, NISO’s Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) held a webinar to update the community and provide information on the current progress of the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project (CCLIP) and the progress of its working groups. The slides from the presenters as well as the video recording are available on the event page on the NISO website.

Throughout the first quarter of 2025, the CDL, CRL, and HathiTrust (CCH) Collaboration for Shared Print has been hosting a series of mini summits in 2025 centered on Shared Print and Sustainability. The first two, Importance of Shared Print Sustainability – Setting the Stage and Establishing the Problem Space were held in January and February respectively, and the third will be held on March 13th at 12:00pm PST. You can access the recording, transcript, and public notes for the first two webinars in this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G0ast4srFnvtYpJZZHmBNrAn0nUz2Qtq. 

And there’s still time to register for the third mini-summit, Aligning Sustainability with Strategy, here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArcuGvpjguHtdtul8dZEBH3rOC771VJiUH 

And, in addition to the presentations and webinars listed above, Against the Grain published a recent article by Miranda Bennett (Director of Shared Collections at CDL), Why Purchase Print if the eBook is OA?: A Librarian’s Perspective, which mentions shared print explicitly and resonates strongly with the work that we all do in the shared print community. 

Finally, OCLC research division recently posted an update which we believe will be of interest to our shared print community: OCLC Research: evolving for greater impact. We’re excited to see what this evolution will mean as OCLC research has played an important role in collective collections, and we hope that they will continue to do so with this strategic shift!

Do you have a shared print presentation, event, or article that you’d like to see included in our next shared print round-up? Share it with Nika Burns Teshin, Shared Print Analyst, at nika.worth@ucop.edu