This presentation was provided by Elizabeth Kirk of Harvard University, during the NISO event "Where Does it Live? Storing Collections On and Off Campus, Part One" held on December 11, 2019

1. Welcome To The 90,000,000-
Volume Library
Amplifying the Impact of Print Collections in
the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation
Elizabeth E. Kirk
Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources
Harvard University

2. What is the Ivy Plus (IPLC)?
 Brown, University of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,
Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, University of Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Stanford, Yale
 Started as a small peer resource-sharing network (BorrowDirect)
 Provides borrowing/lending and on-site privileges

3. BorrowDirect, the invisible hand
 Incredibly popular (JHU: “I borrowdirected that book for my
class…”)
 Easy, quick way to gain access to materials from libraries like
your own
 A place to study when you visit friends
 Patrons used to stored collections

4. Amplifying the impact, collectively
 Move from the invisible hand toward an intentional future
 Create a vision for who we can be together: “The Ivy Plus
libraries embrace a vision for collection development and
management which recognizes these preeminent resources as a
single great collective collection, as rich and boundless as the
imaginations of the students and scholars they engage.”
 Collect collectively, especially print

5. OK, how?
 Bring selectors together
 Be patient
 Don’t try American history first
 Honor peer strengths and contributions
 Different approaches to different subjects
 Different libraries have different goals for participating, and
that’s OK
 MOUs breed confidence
 Much talking and listening are required. For a long, long time.

6. Examples of current initiatives
 Contemporary composers: scores
 Brazilian published literature: sharing regions
 Web archiving
 “Sharing” special collections: Aeon pilot
 Collections analysis feasibility: how do you analyze a dataset this
big?

7. Next steps
 Shared index: making it visible to patrons
 Data lakes for analysis and assessment
 Understanding print retention strategies
 Learning from our smaller collaborations (ReCAP, H+MIT, TRLN)
 Make it work for the patron

8. Amplifying the impact at home
 The collective collection is our collection
 Magnify our efforts to ensure inclusion in the collection
 Less duplication of published literature internally and across the
collective
 Be less common, be more extraordinary (unique, distinctive, and
special collections)

9. Thank you.