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Shared Print Round-Up: Q2 2025

July 29, 2025 Author: Nika WorthCategories: Tags:

Over the last quarter we’ve had many exciting updates, webinars, and articles from community members across shared print! Below is a roundup of shared print news and events from March through June.

In March, Liz Hayden, Associate University Librarian for Content and Access at the University of Ottawa, published Communication in Shared Print at Academic Libraries: Report of Findings. This was a summary report of a project Liz undertook which explored, “how member libraries communicate shared print initiatives to stakeholders and whether a communication and change management plan could enhance the successful integration and normalization of shared print efforts within a library’s collection strategy and practice.” Many members of the shared print community across the US and Canada participated in the interviews and survey that informed these findings. 

Then, in early June North/Nord held a webinar on Pan-Canadian Perspectives on Shared Print, highlighting what shared print programs across Canada are already doing and opportunities for future work in shared print. The recording is available for viewing on their website.

Also in June, CRL held the 2025 Print Archive Network (PAN) Annual Forum on Friday, June 27th, 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 Miranda Bennet. The presentations and a brief takeaway are included below. Click the title of each presentation to view the complete slide deck:

 

Planning for EAST’s Future (Tina Baich, Director, Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust)

      • An overview of EAST’s current planning work, looking both at their work to increase the feasibility of commitment renewal for members and investigations into making membership valuable, in the present and for the future.

Charting New Constellations: Community Strategies for Diversity and Inclusivity in Shared Print (Jason Price, Director of License & Open Access Services, SCELC Library Consortium)

      • Takeaways from SCELC and EAST’s recent grant project investigating diversity in shared print participant title holdings & retention at minority serving institutions. The presentation covered both the retention commitment patterns that surfaced as well as opportunities for possible collective action.

Shared Print Partnership Update (Heather Weltin (Bridge-Year Executive Committee) and Miranda Bennett (Incoming Executive Committee))

      • A brief refresher and overview of the Shared Print Partnership bridge year, information about the incoming Executive Committee, and what’s next for the SPP.

Preservation Stewards: GPO’s Permanent Print Retention Partners (Abby McDermott, Collection Management Librarian, Library Services & Content Management, US Government Publishing Office)

      • Information about what preservation stewards are, what they collect, preservation steward commitments, and condition requirements for these collections. In addition to an update that Preservation Steward inventories will be ingested into the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) so the CGP can serve as the program’s shared print registry.

Assessing the U.S. Federal Documents Program (Heather Weltin, Collections Strategist, HathiTrust)

      • An overview of the history and value of the federal documents program, as well as information on an assessment of the program and group activities, with findings and next steps.

Data Integration that Delivers: How ILL Metrics Enhance Shared Print Value and Integrity (Jenny Rosenfeld, Product Manager, OCLC)

      • An investigation into the questions: Is it interesting and meaningful to combine ILL data with shared print data? AND How does ILL data add value to shared print? Along with suggested future steps and an update on adding shared print data into Choreo Insights.

Final Report From the Partnership’s Matching Algorithm Task Force (Ian Bogus and George Machovec, Members of the Task Force)

Another very informative quarter in the shared print community! Have an event, article, or webinar you would like to see featured in the next Shared Print Round-Up? Submit your suggestion to Nika Burns Teshin, Shared Print Analyst, nika.worth@ucop.edu.