{"id":2,"date":"2011-10-27T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mscs.rsc\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-02-04T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:10:21","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quick facts regarding the Maine Shared Collections Cooperative (MSCC):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Founded in 2013 by eight of the largest libraries in the state and Maine InfoNet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>42 member libraries, including <\/strong><strong>18 academic institutions and 24 public libraries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Collectively agreed to retain approximately 1.5 million print books.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Books will be retained for a minimum of 15 years (through June 30, 2028)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Agreed to make retained materials accessible to library users across Maine and beyond.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Commitment allow other libraries to consider withdrawing their own local copies safe in the knowledge that the content is being protected for future use.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Current Work<\/h2>\n<p>During 2019, 28 MSCC libraries worked on a group collection analysis project with the vendor OCLC Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) using their online analytics tool<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oclc.org\/en\/sustainable-collections\/features.html\"> GreenGlass\u00ae<\/a> to analyze titles considered too new (those published or added to collections 2003-2012) to make retention decisions about at the time of the original analysis. See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-content\/uploads\/SCS-MSCC-Press-Release-1.pdf\">SCS-MSCC Press Release<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/progress\/mscc-2019-collection-analysis-meeting-slides\/\">Committee meeting material<\/a> to learn more about this project.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/collections-and-operations-committee\/\">MSCC Collections &amp; Operations Committee<\/a> agreed a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/retention-model-summary\/\">retention rules<\/a> that were approved by the participating libraries and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/executive-committee\/\">MSCC Executive Committee<\/a> in the fall of 2019. As of November 2019, the participating libraries are reviewing lists of titles they\u2019ve been allocated retention commitments, with a deadline of January 1st, 2020 to confirm commitments by.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/joining-the-maine-shared-collections-cooperative\/\">Joining the Maine Shared Collections Cooperative<\/a> for more information about joining our Cooperative.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>MSCC was founded in 2013 by eight of Maine\u2019s largest libraries, plus the state\u2019s consortium, Maine InfoNet. MSCC builds upon the work of the Maine Shared Collections Strategy which was a four-year project, funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that established MSCC as one of the pioneers of a library practice known as, shared print, whereby libraries share responsibility for protecting library print resources.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/about\/partners\/\"> grant partners<\/a> analyzed approximately 3 million print monograph titles in their collections and developed<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/history-of-the-mscs-grant-project\/\"> retention criteria<\/a> for which titles they would commit to retain and those that they could safely withdraw. They then allocated retention responsibility across the group. As a result of this work the MSCS partners agreed to retain approximately<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/about\/people\/technical-services-subcommittee\/actual-retention-commitments-made-in-scenario-1\/\"> 1.4 million titles<\/a> for a 15-year period (June 30, 2028), during which time they won\u2019t withdraw these titles. The titles will be retained in-place by the libraries and remain accessible via existing resource sharing agreements. The retention commitments have been documented and disclosed in MaineCat, OCLC WorldCat, and in the local Sierra catalogs of the partners.<\/p>\n<p>Another of the project\u2019s activities were the implementation of Ebook-On-Demand and Print-On-Demand services, with 1.4 million public domain HathiTrust records loaded into the union catalog MaineCat, with links to HathiTrust, Google Books, and Print-on-Demand options. These services were terminated in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/history-of-the-mscs-grant-project\/\">History of the MSCS grant project<\/a> to learn more about the history of MSCC.<\/p>\n<h2>Expanding MSCC<\/h2>\n<p>The Maine Shared Collection Cooperative (MSCC) was established in-part to oversee the post-grant activities, including recruiting new members. The University of Maine agreed to support these efforts by funding the role of Maine Shared Collection Librarian.<\/p>\n<p>Although the grant partners made a large volume of retention commitments, there are rare and interesting titles held by other Maine libraries that should be protected, which is why in 2015, following the completion of the MSCS grant project, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/maine-shared-collections-services\/\">collection analysis service<\/a> was developed for MSCC to work with individual Maine libraries on identifying books they might consider committing to retain and also those titles they can safely weed because they are being committed to retain by other MSCC libraries. To date 41 libraries have gone through this collection analysis process, ranging from small public libraries to University of Maine system libraries. Of the 41 libraries, 35 have so far joined MSCC and have collectively agreed to retain approximately 2,000 titles.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/maine-shared-collections-services\/\">MSCC Collections Analysis Services<\/a> to learn more about how to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick facts regarding the Maine Shared Collections Cooperative (MSCC): Founded in 2013 by eight of the largest libraries in the state and Maine InfoNet. 42 member&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maineinfonet.org\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}