Print Management at “Mega-scale”: A Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America

Authors

Brian Lavoie
Constance Malpas
JD Shipengrover
OCLC

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The second report is published by OCLC Research. Using a mega-regions (“geographical regions defined on the basis of economic integration and other forms of interdependence”) framework to model regional consolidation of shared print book library collections, this report explores a counterfactual scenario where local US and Canadian print book library collections are consolidated into regional shared collections. The analysis in this paper builds upon findings from the OCLC Research report, Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment (2011), and draws upon bibliographic and library holdings data from the WorldCat database.

Publication Date

2013

Recommended Citation

Lavoie, Brian; Malpas, Constance; Shipengrover, JD; and OCLC, "Print Management at “Mega-scale”: A Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America" (2013). AALL Legal Website of the Month. 114.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/aall_websites/114