EXPLORING COOPERATION
Existing Cooperative Structures | Background
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for Cooperation
EXISTING COOPERATIVE STRUCTURES
Acquisitions Partnerships
National Cooperative Collections for South Asian Studies [for background see Wisconsin-Cornell Pilot (word document)]
Current Cooperative Acquisitions:
Art Catalogs (Columbia)
Himalayan Materials, particularly Nepali and Newari (Cornell)
South Asian Theater (Wisconsin)South Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program (SACAP) (IP restricted)
Preservation Partnerships
Regional Partnerships
SACWest (main link broken): including participant profiles
International Partnerships
Communication Partnerships
Non-English coverage through SACAP (Access database, last updated 2/14/08)
Lists profile coverage by participant, language, subject, country. Potentially useful when making annual profile decisions.Summary of 2007 CONSALD Survey on Cooperation (pdf)
Conclusion: “The CONSALD survey attempts to stand back from individual collections and assess the state of South Asia libraries, collection methods and acquisitions on a national level. The survey provides two major findings: (1) collection at a national level is uneven—a number of South Asian language materials are not being collected sufficiently while some material is being over-collected or duplicated and (2) the majority of bibliographers are willing to give time and money to a cooperative acquisition project that would focus on collecting materials that fall outside of traditional and/or current collection development methods.”Comparison of 2005-2006 SACAP Participant Profiles (pdf)
Notes number of subscribers to each profile category. Summary conclusions note that 342 profiles have 3 or less subscribers, 172 have 10 or more subscribers and 56 have 20 or more subscribers.Comparative Tables
CONSALD Member holdings by language and decade of imprint (Excel file)
Uses 2005 OCLC data. In individual sheets (use the tabs at the bottom), numerical data is broken down by regional partnership while data from individual institutions is shown graphically.Comprehensive Members in 1974: Comparative by Decade (Excel file)
Uses 2005 OCLC data.North American Title Count (NATC) Comparisons (Excel file)
Compares participating CONSALD libraries by subject holdings.Memo to CONSALD 2006 (word document)
Outlines basic assumptions, potential model for cooperation (LARRP), and potential categories for cooperation
POTENTIAL MODELS FOR COOPERATION
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) Distributed Resources Project
An agreement between participating North American libraries designed to strengthen the collective coverage of monographs and other resources produced in Latin America . Through the concerted reallocation of library collection budgets, enhanced coverage of "non-core" materials is provided in an inter-connected network of collections. The participants also provide online bibliographic records as quickly as possible and make the majority of these materials available through interlibrary loan.South Asia Microform Project (SAMP)
Cooperative program that seeks to acquire and maintain a readily accessible collection of unique materials in microform related to the study of South Asia . Materials are collected both through the filming efforts of the project and through the purchase of positive copies of materials filmed by other groups, institutions and companies.