40 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Please briefly describe the other role(s). N=5
As requested, we may participate with monographs.
Our new partnerships offer possibilities for playing a more active role.
Since program is in planning stages, role will increase if program is successfully launched.
We are discussing our participation and the costs and benefits, so it is not possible to say what we will be doing in
five years.
Within five years, we expect to not only hold collections here, but to contribute to collections held elsewhere.
SHARED STEWARDSHIP: STRATEGIES AND RATIONALES
16. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements on a scale of 1 to 5 where 1
equals strongly disagree and 5 equals strongly agree. Please make one selection per row. N=50
Statement 1 Strongly
Disagree
2 3 Agree 4 5 Strongly
Agree
N
It will always be important for some library to
preserve print collections, regardless of digital
availability or digital preservation status
0 3 11 14 22 50
It is primarily the responsibility of ARL member
libraries to sustain and manage comprehensive print
collections of record
2 8 17 15 8 50
Total Responses 2 9 21 23 24 50
Comments N=11
All libraries should play a role.
ARL member libraries do not necessarily need to be the holders themselves of comprehensive print collections. I imagine
they will be substantial holders but they should exert a decisive leadership role to develop a collective collaboration
across the country among libraries of all sizes to commit to a collective retention effort.
ARL members may have a larger share of the responsibility for maintaining comprehensive print collections, but the
responsibility must be distributed among all (research) libraries.
If it is digitally preserved in a TDR, we would not feel the need to retain, unless the physical item held some research
value in and of itself. As ARL holds a large section of holdings, it has a certain level of responsibility.
More for books than journals
My understanding of collections analysis is that pretty much all libraries hold unique or rare materials. We ALL need to
participate in the “collections of record.”
Perhaps some ARL libraries, or groups of ARL libraries, will attempt a comprehensive print collection of record, but not
all ARL libraries.
Please briefly describe the other role(s). N=5
As requested, we may participate with monographs.
Our new partnerships offer possibilities for playing a more active role.
Since program is in planning stages, role will increase if program is successfully launched.
We are discussing our participation and the costs and benefits, so it is not possible to say what we will be doing in
five years.
Within five years, we expect to not only hold collections here, but to contribute to collections held elsewhere.
SHARED STEWARDSHIP: STRATEGIES AND RATIONALES
16. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements on a scale of 1 to 5 where 1
equals strongly disagree and 5 equals strongly agree. Please make one selection per row. N=50
Statement 1 Strongly
Disagree
2 3 Agree 4 5 Strongly
Agree
N
It will always be important for some library to
preserve print collections, regardless of digital
availability or digital preservation status
0 3 11 14 22 50
It is primarily the responsibility of ARL member
libraries to sustain and manage comprehensive print
collections of record
2 8 17 15 8 50
Total Responses 2 9 21 23 24 50
Comments N=11
All libraries should play a role.
ARL member libraries do not necessarily need to be the holders themselves of comprehensive print collections. I imagine
they will be substantial holders but they should exert a decisive leadership role to develop a collective collaboration
across the country among libraries of all sizes to commit to a collective retention effort.
ARL members may have a larger share of the responsibility for maintaining comprehensive print collections, but the
responsibility must be distributed among all (research) libraries.
If it is digitally preserved in a TDR, we would not feel the need to retain, unless the physical item held some research
value in and of itself. As ARL holds a large section of holdings, it has a certain level of responsibility.
More for books than journals
My understanding of collections analysis is that pretty much all libraries hold unique or rare materials. We ALL need to
participate in the “collections of record.”
Perhaps some ARL libraries, or groups of ARL libraries, will attempt a comprehensive print collection of record, but not
all ARL libraries.
