CRL/Linda Hall Library Partnership
A business model for print repositories
Transformation of CRL
Transformation of CRL services and operations
•Outlined by CRL Board and management in
2007
•Supported by funding from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
A CRL/LHL Partnership
CRL and Linda Hall Library (LHL) have formed a
partnership to preserve, develop and promote
access to collections of source materials in the
fields of science, technology and engineering
(STE).
Global Resources Program
• The partnership involves creating a Global
Resources program devoted to providing
access to international historical materials to
support STE.
• LHL will build and manage merged CRL and
LHL holdings.
Collecting in STE areas is the Core
Mission of LHL
• LHL’s mission-level commitment is to build and
maintain collections of STE materials.
• LHL has deep and highly curated collections of
retrospective materials in STE.
• These collections overlap and substantially
augment CRL’s holdings.
• LHL has longstanding relationships with
publishers and learned societies in the fields of
science and engineering.
Merging CRL’s STE collections with
LHL
• Back files of CRL’s current subscriptions to
foreign serials in the fields of physics,
chemistry, technology, and engineering
• Russian Academy of Science periodicals
• Non-Rare Book Collection including historical
serials and government documents
LHL Collections extended to CRL
Members
• Engineering specifications, standards and
other technical literature
• Current serials in all fields received by LHL
LHL Services to CRL Members
• Maintain the designated collections at LHL’s secure,
climate controlled facility in Kansas City.
• Provide content to CRL library’s document delivery
service and/or Interlibrary loan of a specified number
of items per year to CRL libraries
• Provide digitization of a specified number of volumes
of materials per year to fulfill requests from scholars at
CRL libraries.
– Digital files of those materials will be posted on the
CRL DDS server to be accessed by CRL-authorized
users through CRL systems.
LHL and CRL Partnership
• Provide CRL with information on the
designated serial holdings at the issue level, in
an interchange format specified by mutual
agreement between LHL and CRL on a regular
basis holdings.
• Work with CRL at the executive level to
promote discoverability and use of the
designated collections.
Contingency Planning
CRL has right of first refusal for all materials to
be discarded or disposed of from the
designated collections and works from those
collections which LHL no longer chooses to
make available under the above terms.
Governance
• Global Resources STE steering committee, a
joint committee reporting to the Boards of the
two institutions
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The Executive Director of the Linda Hall Library
One member of the LHL Board of Trustees
One member of the CRL Board of Directors
One director of a CRL member library
Representatives of the STE community
Global Resources Senior Advisor for
STE Collections
• Chairs the Global Resources STE steering
committee.
• The first CRL Global Resources senior advisor
for STE Collections is Stephen Bosch from the
University of Arizona.
Costs
• Costs are detailed in a Cooperative
agreement.
• These include:
– CRL compensation to LHL for services provided
and annual administrative fees.
– CRL in-house : Labor (including the costs for the
Program Officer, Steve Bosch), CRL subscriptions
Postage for ILL and costs related to
deaccessioning designated CRL collections. labor