BACKGROUND

• Participating libraries are the four colleges that share the CONSORT online catalog - The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Ohio Wesleyan University
• Funded by a grant to the GLCA (Great Lakes Colleges Association) from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
• Grant period ran 2001- June 30, 2004.
• Link to the final report issued August 2004 (pdf).

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• The CONSORT Colleges Cooperative Collection Development Program
• Cooperative Collection Development for the Five Colleges of Ohio Libraries:
  A White Paper Submitted to the Chief Academic Officers by the Library Committee, September 30, 2003 (pdf)
  
• Five Colleges of Ohio Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Sharing of Library Materials

OLDER MATERIAL

• CONStor: Five Colleges of Ohio storage facility
• Government documents
• Library of Record Assignment for Print Journals
  • ACS - American Chemical Society
  • JSTOR
  • PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive
• Five Colleges of Ohio Last Copy policy
  

CURRENT COLLECTION

• Collection assessment
• Circulation policy changes
• Featured collections

FUTURE COLLECTING

• Draft Guidelines for Reducing Unnecessary Duplication
• Checking Standard Lists
• Shared approval plans
• Disciplinary Frameworks
  • Religious Studies - December 2004 final draft
  • Environmental Studies - May 2006 draft
  • Middle East Studies - January 2007 draft

RESOURCES

• Bibliography
  • The CONSORT project
  • Cooperative Collection Development
• Resources for Collection Development
• Resources for Digital Assets Management
• Resources for Disaster Planning and Preservation