<font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
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Randy Dykhuis
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Executive Director<br>
Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS)
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1407 Rensen Street<br>
Lansing, MI 48910
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Phone: (800) 530-9019 x119<br>
Fax: (517) 492-3879<br>
Cell: (517) 927-5121<br>
E-mail: dykhuisr@mcls.org<br>
Twitter: @mclsrandy <br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Print Archive Network <PAN@listserv.crl.edu>
wrote on 01/16/2015 12:34:29 PM:<br>
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> From: Robert Kieft <kieft@OXY.EDU></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> To: <PAN@listserv.crl.edu></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Date: 01/16/2015 12:34 PM</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Subject: [PAN] CLIR study of print repositories</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Sent by: Print Archive Network <PAN@listserv.crl.edu></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> <br>
> PANs, for those among you who may have missed the announcement last
<br>
> summer (I did), CLIR has initiated a project to model the costs <br>
> involved in creating a national network of print repositories:<br>
> <br>
> </font></tt><a href=http://www.clir.org/about/news/pressrelease/HannahRasmussen><tt><font size=2>http://www.clir.org/about/news/pressrelease/HannahRasmussen</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>> Here's a short version of the project excerpted
from a blog post <br>
> that Chuck Henry wrote for the MLA's working group on the future of
<br>
> the print record (</font></tt><a href=http://printrecord.commons.mla.org/><tt><font size=2>http://printrecord.commons.mla.org/</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>):<br>
> <br>
> "With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a post-doctoral
<br>
> fellow has been hired to conduct an Analysis of Costs and Return on
<br>
> Investments for a National System of Print Materials Repositories.
A<br>
> key aspect of building a national system for information management
<br>
> in support of higher education must include analog materials. <br>
> Working with the University of Michigan, Indiana University, the <br>
> Modern Language Association, and the Center for Research Libraries,
<br>
> the fellow will begin an analysis of the costs to build regional <br>
> repositories that will be backed up by an audited, trustworthy <br>
> system of preservation and archiving of the deposited materials. <br>
> Costs estimated will include construction of the repositories, <br>
> moving costs, management, delivery, and ongoing storage costs. The
<br>
> return on this investment will include projections of costs saved/<br>
> avoided by de-accessioning copies of the printed books and materials<br>
> nationwide."<br>
> <br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>> Bob Kieft<br>
> College Librarian<br>
> Occidental College<br>
> 1600 Campus Rd.<br>
> Los Angeles, CA 90041<br>
> 323-259-2504<br>
> kieft@oxy.edu</font></tt>