Making Cooperative Collection Development A Reality

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Making Cooperative Collection Development A
Reality

• A Lesson In Patience
• Paul O. Jenkins
• College of Mount St. Joseph

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Genesis of SWORCS

• CBTF membership
• Lining up the players

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Members of SWORCS

• College of Mount St. Joseph
• Xavier University
• Cincinnati Bible College
• University of Dayton
• Cedarville College (added)
• Athenaeum of Ohio (unable to join)
• Miami University (added upon request)

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So Now What?

• Serials Union List
• Budget comparisons
• Not Bought in Ohio
• Monographic Series
• WLN Conspectus

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Finding Our Mission

• Non-Christian religions
• Islam
• Buddhism
• Judaism
• Hinduism

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How Much Is Enough?

• Trying to establish acceptable minimum holdings
  standards

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Bringing YBP Into the Picture

• GOBI Approval Plan
• Establishing Approval Plan Profiles

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Reexamining the Mission

• to apply cooperative collection development
  principles in our libraries in order to reduce
  duplication of titles and better cover peripheral
  areas of Religious Studies
• specifically, to create a shared slip approval
  plan profile in the area of non-Christian
  religions (specifics yet to be determined) that
  can serve as a model for larger OhioLINK groups
  in other disciplines.

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Getting to Specifics

• Begin with retrospective purchases

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Dividing Up Responsibilities

• ConfucianismXU
• Tenrikyo and ShintoMiami.
• TaoismUD.
• Bahai, Zoroastrianism, RastafarianismMSJ.
• Unitarianism, Scientology, AtheismCedarville
• Sikhism, JainismCincinnati Bible.

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Making a Financial Commitment

• 500 commitment from each school

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Next Year

• Using the approval profiles for current purchases

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Lessons Learned

• This is possible but difficult.
• Be patient.
• Start small.
• Be flexible.
• Be prepared to compromise.
• Vendor participation essential.

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Questions?

• Contact Paul O. Jenkins
• 513-244-4351
• paul_jenkins_at_mail.msj.edu