Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) Fall 2026 Public Update Webinar

Description

Networks of libraries have a long tradition of working together to expand their resources and provide more comprehensive coverage across all subjects through sharing of resources. As one of these strategies, larger networks of institutions have recently explored wider adoption of cooperative collections management, which this project defines as a process by which networks of institutions work collaboratively to acquire, manage, circulate, and preserve collections across the network. In August of 2022, NISO, Lehigh University Library, and PALCI, along with more than 25 other partner organizations, received an IMLS National Leadership Grant to support the development of best practices for this lifecycle process and to prototype tools to support elements of the workflow. The Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project seeks to overcome serious barriers to wider implementations, including the lack of available vendor-neutral interoperable systems, adequate governance and decision-making frameworks, and assessment tools.



As part of the related Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project (CCLIP), several working groups worked in concert with the CCLP leadership and with each other to produce a Recommended Practice. The NISO CCLIP Recommended Practice was published in June. The Recommended Practice documents exchange protocols for gathering, normalizing, and exchanging holdings information, contractual information, retention obligations, usage data, and the publisher/marketplace information necessary to support collaborative decisions at the local and cross-institutional levels.



NISO hosted a free public webinar on Tuesday, October 20th at 12 PM Eastern to update the community on the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP), provide information on the recently published NISO CCLIP Recommended Practice, the technical development behind the related CYCLOPS software, and provide information on how you can get involved!