Sally Curry of the Research Information Network whose presentation at the WESLINE colloquium I blogged last week, e-mailed me to point out that I underestimated the extent to which collaborative collection management has developed: 'I was interested to read your comments about CCM. I am not sure that you are entirely correct about the lack of development since ASVIN. Some collaborative programmes have not just run for the duration of their initial funding but have managed to carry on such as SCoRe and the White Rose/British Library Collaborative Collection Management Project programme and CoFoR. And of course, one of the large developments in the area of collaborative collection management is the UKRR'.
I'm happy to set the record straight and the projects Sally mentions may be found here:
SCoRe: a catalogue of printed company reports held in UK libraries
White Rose/British Library Collaborative Collection Management Project: a mechanism whereby very low-use monographs can be
withdrawn from individual White Rose Consortium libraries (Leeds, Sheffield and York univeristy libraries) and offered to the BL’s own
collections
CoFoR: a project aiming to promote collaborative collection management, which developed a downloadable toolkit (pdf format)
UK Research Reserve: an agreement between higher education and the British Library whereby the
British Library will store journals no longer required by HE libraries
