@Risk North

Date

November 10, 2017 09:00 - 16:00

Location

Ottawa

Details

Website: http://www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-page/at-risk-north/

As libraries witness increasing demand for online resources and dwindling circulation of print holdings, and at the same time confront budget and space pressures, it can be challenging to remain committed to sustaining academic libraries’ print collections. Cooperative approaches to acquiring, storing, and managing the reduction of print collections are gaining traction as libraries seek to share the expense and responsibility with others. With the creation of such programs come new questions: What are libraries’ responsibilities towards safeguarding our domestic imprint, and towards the global research content we have been collecting for decades? What is a reasonable framework for defining how many and which copies are retained? What shared print models are proving most effective?

@Risk North, inspired by the Center for Research Libraries’ 2016 original @Risk meeting held in Chicago in April 2016, will give attendees an opportunity to discuss at a strategic level the state of shared print preservation programs in Canada and beyond, in a setting that is meant to push these conversations forward and identify clear next steps. Speakers will describe and assess notable shared repositories in the US and elsewhere, the status of existing Canadian shared repository initiatives, and the possibilities emerging for a robust and rational shared print infrastructure in Canada.