Shared Print Repositories

<p>This book addresses the growing endeavours of shared print repositories and programs in academic libraries representing a global perspective with authors from Canada Australia Great Britain and the United States. It illustrates the complicated processes and challenges of coordinating selection determining storage agreements (distributed or shared) ownership concerns business models and a host of collection maintenance issues. These efforts entail immense collaboration regardless of the size of the project. Luckily librarians are good at collaboration but not always good at forging ahead into an uncertain future with regard to print collections. As echoed by authors in this book the future is indeed uncertain but undoubtedly libraries who partner together to address print archiving dilemmas will be better prepared for whatever the future holds.</p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Collection Management</i>.</p>