The client operates the world’s largest library, archive preservation repository having close to 20,000,000 research collections of their member/partner libraries, and shares it with researchers. They also provide the printed and digital versions of these materials to their member/partner libraries and to other libraries around the world through interlibrary loan.
The primary challenges of the project was to:
• Transform the nature of the client’s partnership with other libraries around the world from joint operations of a shared facility to cooperative stewardship of a shared collection
• Allow discovery-to-delivery by real-time integration with partner institutions’ library systems and library discovery services
• Create tools and methods that can support the development of cooperative collection strategies nationwide
