The Collection Management working group aims at aligning collection formation and collection management so as to be able to offer and maintain a high-quality range of scientific information nationally.

Goal

The starting point of the collection management working group is reinforcement through collaboration. By coordinating which library buys what, the working group can ensure the widest possible range of relevant scientific information. In this way, it can avoid unnecessary overlap, reduce the pressure on the budgets of the individual libraries and make maximum use of the available budget.

The Collection Management working group deals with the following policy topics:

Sustainable access to relevant scientific sources of information
Changes and developments in collection development
Knowledge sharing in the field of collection management
Retention policy and deselection of print journals and print monographs

UKB retention policy

Journals: the UKB libraries have mutually agreed that whoever owns the last copy of a scientific journal must keep it, even if an electronic version is available. To prevent the last copies from being accidentally thrown away at the same time, the burden of deselection has been divided among the libraries per subject area.

Monographs: the UKB libraries have jointly agreed to keep at least two copies of each monograph in the Netherlands Academic Collection (defined as the joint possessions of the university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands, as registered in Worldcat). The possible digital availability of titles does not play a role here either.

Documents

Members

Rogier Schumacher – Utrecht University
Jasper Faase – National Library of the Netherlands
Louise Otting – TU Delft
Julie Ides – TU Delft
Carlijn Postma – Eindhoven University of Technology
Leonne Portz – Maastricht University
Monique de Groot-van IJsselmuiden – Twente University
Pieter van Leeuwen – Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bart van der Steen – Leiden University
Pieter van Wingerden – Groningen University
Gerard Bierens – Tilburg University
Dini van Engelen – Radboud University Nijmegen
Michele Meijer – VU Amsterdam – chair and contact person
Reinder Lanjouw – University of Amsterdam
Claudia Bohme – Wageningen University and Research
Hongxia Duan – TU Eindhoven

UKB liaison: Lucinda Jones – Erasmus University Rotterdam