Repositories for Print Resources in the United States Second International Conference on Repository Libraries Kuopio, Finland May 13, 2004 Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. Center for Research Libraries Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.

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“ Biodiversity” of knowledge sources: Richness and integrity of critical heritage materials and historical evidence Goal

Preserving America’s Print Resources Stakeholders U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services federal libraries Government Printing Office independent research libraries academic libraries law libraries state libraries

Preserving America’s Print Resources Report and action agenda

Preserving America’s Print Resources Action agenda 1. Disclosure Strengthen the information infrastructure for managing and disclosing information essential to local decision-making 2. Assurance + Delivery Synchronize and formalize archiving and “collections of record” activities at the national and regional levels

Preserving America’s Print Resources System characteristics Hybrid Distributed Cooperative Manages risk Transparent Scalable

Rationalized national system of repositories Distributed Collection Model per Brian Schottlaender, UCSD

Preserving America’s Print Resources News Assurance – American Antiquarian Society Disclosure - International Coalition on Newspapers and United States Newspaper Project Cooperative Asset Management - International Coalition on Newspapers

Preserving America’s Print Resources Government Documents Federal Deposit Library Program Snared Repositories GPO Collections of Last Resort GPO Dark Archives Decision matrix:

Preserving America’s Print Resources Journals Distributed Print Archiving – JSTOR Electronic Journals Archiving

Preserving America’s Print Resources Rethinking the National Deposit Collection Library of Congress “Heritage Copy” monographs Terms Disclosure Roles for others

Preserving America’s Print Resources A Distributed Effort Conservancy Disclosure + Assurance + Delivery

Preserving America’s Print Resources A Matter of Public Good “All public goods, whether local, national or global, tend to suffer from underprovision. The reason is precisely that they are public. For individual actors, it is often the best and most rational strategy to let others provide the good-and then to enjoy it, free of charge.” - Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, and Marc A. Stern, Global Public Goods