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2CUL: Emerging Model of Deep Collaboration?

2CUL: Emerging Model of Deep Collaboration?. Anne R. Kenney ASERL Fall 2010 Membership Meeting. What is 2CUL?. Transformative and enduring partnership between Columbia and Cornell University Libraries Deep integration of resources, collections, services, and expertise.

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2CUL: Emerging Model of Deep Collaboration?

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  1. 2CUL: Emerging Model of Deep Collaboration? Anne R. Kenney ASERL Fall 2010 Membership Meeting

  2. What is 2CUL? Transformative and enduring partnership between Columbia and Cornell University Libraries Deep integration of resources, collections, services, and expertise

  3. Why Columbia and Cornell? • Major research libraries • New York State • Private Ivies • Similar academic characteristics • Record of collaboration • Record of innovation • Budget challenges • Will and interest

  4. 2CUL Goals b

  5. Initial Focus of Our Work

  6. Collective Collection Challenges

  7. Collective Collection Challenges Pre-nups for shared collections

  8. 2CUL Collective Collections

  9. First Year Progress • Shared Slavic and East European Studies Bibliographer • Coordinated purchasing plan in South Asian Studies • Potential in other areas, e.g., Latin America, Southeast Asia • Pursuing joint e-resource licensing negotiations • Collection overlap and use analysis underway • Resource sharing report due later this fall

  10. Collection Overlap in WorldCat: Columbia and Cornell Cornell 5,857,315 Columbia 5,579,486 3,789,465 65% 2,067,850 37%/ 35% 3,511,636 63%

  11. Backroom Functions

  12. Backroom Functions Challenges • System of “credits” for work done on behalf of others • Standard definitions of good enough • Budgets/funding streams • Shared backend systems

  13. First Year Progress • Pre-order online form tool • Reciprocal cataloging pilot for Turkish-language material • Chinese mainland vendor pilot • White Paper on 2CUL Technical Services in 2015

  14. Technical Infrastructure

  15. First Year Progress • Determination not to collaborate in building joint archival repository • Business/workflow requirements for e-archives • Digital preservation costs/coverage for 2CUL holdings and licensed content • Web archiving and data management • Each party supports Haithi Trust and Duraspace Gold Sponsorship

  16. Business Planning

  17. First Year Progress • Developed process for comparing budgetary apples to apples across institutional lines • Identified end goal in target for cost avoidance, savings, redirected savings, and joint investment • Submitted six joint grants; three successful, one still pending • Initiated discussions around new service offerings

  18. Some “Ah Ha” Moments • Bringing two organizations together to perpetuate traditional library models is not a goal but a dead end • It’s got to be seen as being about more not less • Enabling prerequisites for radical collaboration are key • Appreciating cultural differences and need for face time • Importance of trusted third party at the table • Early wins are needed, not always in areas you expect • Sometimes quick wins not possible, focus on longer-term benefits that will pay off

  19. What Will Success Look Like?

  20. Enabling Deep Collaborations

  21. "Faced with the choice between change and proving there is no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof." John Kenneth Galbraith

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