Cooperative Collection Management Committee

Committee Charge

Reporting to the VALE Executive Board, the Committee will develop resources for cooperative collection management among VALE libraries and raise awareness of last copy, repository and other collection management issues.Specifically, the Committee will:

Recruit and train libraries for participation in the VALE Last Copy Preservation Program;
Examine options for implementing collection assessment tools, such as the WorldCat Collection Analysis Tool, with a group of academic libraries in New Jersey; and
Conduct workshops to raise awareness about standards to address preservation issues as well as retention issues of print resources.

Committee members | Meeting minutes

Committee resources

VALE Last Copy Program Proposed Guidelines
VALE 2008 Conference Last Copy Pilot Project Overview
"WorldCat Collection Analysis Tool: Towards collection assessment" Powerpoint presentation by Pamela Theus, Collection Management Director, William Paterson University Library.
VALE 2006 Cooperative Collection Management Poster Session
CCM White Paper, "Collections Under Stress: Developing a Coordinated Response to Ensuring Future Access to Print Holdings in New Jersey"
VALE 2005 Users Conference Panel Session Powerpoint on Collections Under Stress
CCM Survey 2005 Selected Results
CCM Survey 2005 Comments

Additional resources

RLG Policy Frameworks for Shared Print Collections by Constance Malpas, January, 2007
ALI Indiana Light Archive for Government Documents Planning Group (Dec., 2006)
NJ State Library JerseyCat Union List