CRL/Linda Hall Library Partnership A business model for print repositories

Transformation of CRL Transformation of CRL services and operations Outlined by CRL Board and management in 2007 Supported by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.   

A CRL/LHL Partnership CRL and Linda Hall Library (LHL) have formed a partnership to preserve, develop and promote access to collections of source materials in the fields of science, technology and engineering (STE).

Global Resources Program The partnership involves creating a Global Resources program devoted to providing access to international historical materials to support STE. LHL will build and manage merged CRL and LHL holdings.

Collecting in STE areas is the Core Mission of LHL LHL’s mission-level commitment is to build and maintain collections of STE materials. LHL has deep and highly curated collections of retrospective materials in STE. These collections overlap and substantially augment CRL’s holdings. LHL has longstanding relationships with publishers and learned societies in the fields of science and engineering.

Merging CRL’s STE collections with LHL Back files of CRL’s current subscriptions to foreign serials in the fields of physics, chemistry, technology, and engineering Russian Academy of Science periodicals Non-Rare Book Collection including historical serials and government documents

LHL Collections extended to CRL Members Engineering specifications, standards and other technical literature Current serials in all fields received by LHL

LHL Services to CRL Members Maintain the designated collections at LHL’s secure, climate controlled facility in Kansas City. Provide content to CRL library’s document delivery service and/or Interlibrary loan of a specified number of items per year to CRL libraries Provide digitization of a specified number of volumes of materials per year to fulfill requests from scholars at CRL libraries. Digital files of those materials will be posted on the CRL DDS server to be accessed by CRL-authorized users through CRL systems.

LHL and CRL Partnership Provide CRL with information on the designated serial holdings at the issue level, in an interchange format specified by mutual agreement between LHL and CRL on a regular basis holdings. Work with CRL at the executive level to promote discoverability and use of the designated collections.

Contingency Planning CRL has right of first refusal for all materials to be discarded or disposed of from the designated collections and works from those collections which LHL no longer chooses to make available under the above terms.

Governance Global Resources STE steering committee, a joint committee reporting to the Boards of the two institutions The Executive Director of the Linda Hall Library One member of the LHL Board of Trustees One member of the CRL Board of Directors One director of a CRL member library Representatives of the STE community The committee will be tasked with identifying broad priorities for digitization and future development of the designated collections and partnership development. 

Global Resources Senior Advisor for STE Collections Chairs the Global Resources STE steering committee.  The first CRL Global Resources senior advisor for STE Collections is Stephen Bosch from the University of Arizona.

Costs Costs are detailed in a Cooperative agreement. These include: CRL compensation to LHL for services provided and annual administrative fees. CRL in-house : Labor (including the costs for the Program Officer, Steve Bosch), CRL subscriptions Postage for ILL and costs related to deaccessioning designated CRL collections. labor