70 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
2. Please enter the number of your participating institutions that are primarily state- and primarily
privately funded. N=22
Type of Institution N Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
State-supported 19 1 121 20.21 10.00 28.32
Privately supported 16 1 110 28.31 10.00 35.56
3. Many institutions in shared print agreements are also involved in other lending networks (such as
affiliated campuses, interlibrary loan networks, or state-wide consortia). Please indicate the extent
to which your program extends access to partners outside the shared print agreement. N=23
Access to items retained under the shared print agreement is extended to non-members through other
agreements with other lending networks
17 74%
Access is extended to branch and regional affiliate libraries of member institutions, but not to wider networks 3 13%
Items retained under the shared print agreement are available only to signatories of the agreement 3 13%
Items retained under the shared print agreement are not accessible 0 0%
4. What is the geographic proximity of your program’s member institutions? N=23
Members are in a single state/province 10 44%
Members are in multiple non-contiguous states/provinces 7 30%
Members are in multiple contiguous states/provinces 6 26%
CHARACTERISTICS OF SHARED PRINT AGREEMENT
5. Who owns the retained materials? N=22
The contributing library retains ownership 11 50%
The retaining library assumes ownership 4 18%
The shared print repository or governing body assumes ownership 2 9%
Other ownership model 5 23%
Please briefly descriwbe the other ownership model. N=5
Distributed sharing model, owning library retains ownership and holds the physical item on behalf of the group.
Participating libraries decided against formal retention agreements. Instead, items that meet the group’s definition of
scarcely held will be protected from weeding done as a result of this project.
The contributing library retains ownership until the title is de-duped and one copy is then retained for the group, i.e., the
group is then the owner of the one retained journal title.
To be determined. Too early to answer as policy and governance issues have yet to be written. Thus, subsequent
questions below have been left blank.
UMass retains ownership the four colleges give ownership to Five Colleges, Inc.
2. Please enter the number of your participating institutions that are primarily state- and primarily
privately funded. N=22
Type of Institution N Minimum Maximum Mean Median Std Dev
State-supported 19 1 121 20.21 10.00 28.32
Privately supported 16 1 110 28.31 10.00 35.56
3. Many institutions in shared print agreements are also involved in other lending networks (such as
affiliated campuses, interlibrary loan networks, or state-wide consortia). Please indicate the extent
to which your program extends access to partners outside the shared print agreement. N=23
Access to items retained under the shared print agreement is extended to non-members through other
agreements with other lending networks
17 74%
Access is extended to branch and regional affiliate libraries of member institutions, but not to wider networks 3 13%
Items retained under the shared print agreement are available only to signatories of the agreement 3 13%
Items retained under the shared print agreement are not accessible 0 0%
4. What is the geographic proximity of your program’s member institutions? N=23
Members are in a single state/province 10 44%
Members are in multiple non-contiguous states/provinces 7 30%
Members are in multiple contiguous states/provinces 6 26%
CHARACTERISTICS OF SHARED PRINT AGREEMENT
5. Who owns the retained materials? N=22
The contributing library retains ownership 11 50%
The retaining library assumes ownership 4 18%
The shared print repository or governing body assumes ownership 2 9%
Other ownership model 5 23%
Please briefly descriwbe the other ownership model. N=5
Distributed sharing model, owning library retains ownership and holds the physical item on behalf of the group.
Participating libraries decided against formal retention agreements. Instead, items that meet the group’s definition of
scarcely held will be protected from weeding done as a result of this project.
The contributing library retains ownership until the title is de-duped and one copy is then retained for the group, i.e., the
group is then the owner of the one retained journal title.
To be determined. Too early to answer as policy and governance issues have yet to be written. Thus, subsequent
questions below have been left blank.
UMass retains ownership the four colleges give ownership to Five Colleges, Inc.
