[Mcls-print-storage] Fw: [PAN] CLIR study of print repositories

[Randy Dykhuis]

Apropos our discussion this afternoon about an effort to create a national 
print storage project, this came across my desktop this afternoon. Thought 
I'd share with the group.

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Randy Dykhuis 
Executive Director
Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) 
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Print Archive Network <PAN at listserv.crl.edu> wrote on 01/16/2015 12:34:29 
PM:

> From: Robert Kieft <kieft at OXY.EDU>
> To: <PAN at listserv.crl.edu>
> Date: 01/16/2015 12:34 PM
> Subject: [PAN] CLIR study of print repositories
> Sent by: Print Archive Network <PAN at listserv.crl.edu>
> 
> PANs, for those among you who may have missed the announcement last 
> summer (I did), CLIR has initiated a project to model the costs 
> involved in creating a national network of print repositories:
> 
> http://www.clir.org/about/news/pressrelease/HannahRasmussen

> Here's a short version of the project excerpted from a blog post 
> that Chuck Henry wrote for the MLA's working group on the future of 
> the print record (http://printrecord.commons.mla.org/):
> 
> "With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a post-doctoral 
> fellow has been hired to conduct an Analysis of Costs and Return on 
> Investments for a National System of Print Materials Repositories. A
> key aspect of building a national system for information management 
> in support of higher education must include analog materials. 
> Working with the University of Michigan, Indiana University, the 
> Modern Language Association, and the Center for Research Libraries, 
> the fellow will begin an analysis of the costs to build regional 
> repositories that will be backed up by an audited, trustworthy 
> system of preservation and archiving of the deposited materials. 
> Costs estimated will include construction of the repositories, 
> moving costs, management, delivery, and ongoing storage costs. The 
> return on this investment will include projections of costs saved/
> avoided by de-accessioning copies of the printed books and materials
> nationwide."
> 

> Bob Kieft
> College Librarian
> Occidental College
> 1600 Campus Rd.
> Los Angeles, CA 90041
> 323-259-2504
> kieft at oxy.edu
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